Morung Express News
September 11
DIMAPUR: The GPRN clarifying on the press release issued by K Yimtsu Yimchumger, Regional President,Yimchunger Region NNC/FGN, has stated that the particular tribe of Yimchunger comprises of six home dialects namely Langa (Yimchunger), Tikhir, Makury, Chirr, Phelongre (Sangtam) and Longphuri and that the NSCN (IM) never ignored the works of the British nor advocated separation of tribes from one to another.
A rejoinder issued by K Joseph Tikhir executive Officer TACA/GPRN, clarified that the Tikhir tribe was a tribe and not a home dialect and the tribe as well as the dialect of Tikhir existed from time immemorial “long before NNC and FGN nomenclature was propounded.”
It also maintained that the Tikhir people joined the Naga national struggle during the early 1950s under the banner of the then Naga National council led by Lt. SK Kiusumong Tikhir. It stated that in 1964 fifteen Tikhir personnel had gone to “Pakistan Trained Act” and then in 1967 forty seven Tikhir personnel had gone to “China Trained Act”. With regard to these above factors the release cautioned that “self vested and preconceived statement should not be brought in the society as every Naga knows their own historical identity.”
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