Kaybie Chongloi,
SADAR HILLS, Nov.4: Breaking its silence over the popular Sadar Hills issue and the successive failure of the Government of Manipur to inaugurate as a full-fledged, Kuki National Front (KNF), the oldest organization of the Kuki armed groups said that Sadar Hills district or any new district in Manipur is wholly for administrative convenience and the Nagas or the NSCN-IM should be ‘insecure’ about it.
The outfit Department of Information and Publicity press communiqué said that KNF finds no reason why NSCN-IM should openly opposed the plan of Manipur state Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh led Congress Government to declared Sadar Hills as a full-fledged district.
“Of course, there are pockets of Naga villages within Sadar Hills which is mainly dominated by the Kukis but declaration of Sadar Hills as a full-fledged district would not at all mean that the Naga villages be made to flee like what the NSCN-IM has done in the Kuki ethnic cleansing during 1992-1993”, said that outfit adding that we would continue to respect and regard their existence in pockets within Sadar Hills.
It also said that Nagas have all the rights to fight or their political aspiration however they must not seek gain at the expense of other communities living in Manipur or the Kukis in particular nor begrudge other’s fair gain.
It further said that there are large pockets of Kuki ancestral lands in Senapati, Tamenglong and Ukhrul districts as well which our fore-fathers defended these lands against the British invasion during the Anglo-Kuki War from 1917-1919, Laijang now Tamenglong and Chassad in Ukhrul district in Manipur being the headquarters.
It also stated KNF wants cordial relations of the past by restoring mutual respect for each other’s political, social and economic spheres even today with the Nagas.
It stated that we expected the Government of Manipur to do what is just and constitutional and not infringe upon the rights of the people living Sadar Hills while the Manipur (Hill Areas) District Council Act, 1971 entities creation of Sadar Hills to a full-fledged district, Sadar Hills needs to be declare without further delay in the interest of peace and harmony.
~Zalaileng News Service Sadar Hills~
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