Dimapur, Nov 22 NNN : The NSCN-IM has taken strong exception to the propaganda emanating from the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC). The NSCN-IM alleged that the KSDC has resorted to public blockade in the Kuki dominated areas and intimidating the neighboring Naga villages to support the demand for Kuki state or face dire consequences.
The NSCN-IM then said it considered the use of provocative languages by the blockade supporters as uncalled for and this must be stopped forthwith.
“To justify their demand for a separate Kuki state the Kuki National Organization(KNO) has produced a forged Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) signed between KNO and NSCN in the year 2010. Going further, there is an open display of bogus sketched map extracted from the Memorandum submitted by the Kuki National Assembly (KNA) to the Prime Minister of India in the course of their demand for Kuki state. This is simply unscrupulous without an iota of truth and just to fool the general populace masterminded from the higher level agencies in connivance with the government of Manipur,” the NSCN-IM said today.
The Naga outfit then said that whatever is the mechanism of propaganda adopted by the Kuki bodies to justify the demand for Kuki state nothing can be far from truth based on the historical and political rights (fact) of the Nagas.
“The physical and political boundary of the Nagas is inalienable and God forbids using His name for spreading false propaganda as resorted by the KNO. So what is being vainly attempted by the Kukis is misleading and obnoxious from the historical point of view. And Nagas will not tolerate any means used by the Kukis to distort the historical foundation of the Nagas. And all said and done, the intrusion of Kuki organizations like KNO and KNA into Naga territories through their bogus sketched map and forged MoU will not stand the test of time,” the NSCN-IM asserted.
Nagas in Chandel district of Manipur under the banner of Chandel Naga People Organisation (CNPO) has discussed the prevailing situation and said ancestral land of the Nagas be preserved at any cost.
“Every bit of land in the hills is under the jurisdiction of and within the ancestral boundary with well defined demarcation and there is no khasland. Since time immemorial Nagas have been living in their respective land and governed themselves with a set of traditional administrative system protecting their right to land, natural resources, custom, culture etc. There was no contest over our historical land ownership by any other communities. However, the Naga peoples living in Chandel district are shocked to learn that whole Nagas’ ancestral territory is in the proposed map of the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC),” the CNPO stated today.
Chandel Naga People Organisation (CNPO) had a meeting with all the frontal organisations of Chandel district on November 22 and discussed the proposed map of the KSDC. They decided that at any cost the Naga people must preserve and defend their ancestral land and that in no way they should compromise. Nagas in Chandel have respect for other people’s aspirations and we expect the same to our aspirations and right over our land.
The Nagas in Chandel support the demand of alternative arrangement for Nagas of Manipur from the government of India outside the government of Manipur and pending Indo-Naga settlement should be expedited to bring solution at the earliest, the CNPO added.
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