“Encroachers will be evicted without any further warning”

Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): The ‘ministry of information and publicity NSCN/GPRN’ has  drawn the attention of all Nagas  irrespective of tribe or community to the issue of Intanki Forest Reserve that the declared Intanki National Park belongs to the Naga people as a whole and “nobody, tribe or community can  ever claim the ownership of it in any respect”. A press note from the MIP stated that any element whether tribe, community, society, group or “national worker” that encroaches the demarcated reserved forest, will be treated as illegal and “encroachers.” They will not be tolerated but would certainly attract stringent action, it stated.

In this regard, the MIP informed that a joint council meeting under the chairmanship of Collective Leadership, GPRN, dated 6th July 2007, issued an order vide No. 36-03/PROH/MKA-2007, dated 10th July 2007, prohibiting tracking, hunting, fishing, cutting fire-wood, cultivation of oil seed or any related activities causing deforestation of Intanki National Park which was followed by pronouncement of a directive by the Collective Leadership dated 25th Sept.2007, prohibiting the same and declaring Intanki Reserve Forest as National property and treasure. 

The MIP note reiterated that all “the new immigrants or encroachers would be evicted without any further warning with necessary punishment as deem fit by the GPRN”. In this connection, the GPRN sought the cooperation from all concerned to protect and preserve this site from destruction since it is the only treasure of the Nagas having great potentials to become a tourist hot-spot. The MIP also defended that the action of the Naga Army on 16th June 2009, was just a noble and faithful job executed for future generations as per standing Azha of the Collective Leadership, GPRN, dated 25th Sept. 2007. The MIP note also clarified that no NSCN/GPRN leader has even an inch of land within the parameter of Intanki Reserve Forest and that the intentional encroachers should rather be punished for not abiding with the law of the Land.