Dimapur, April 25 (MExN): The Indigenous Minority Tribes of Nagaland has objected to the Naga Hoho’s recommendation, made much earlier, to the Government of Nagaland that the Rongmei tribe be given an ‘indigenous inhabitant status’ as in the case of the Kuki, Kachari, Garo & Mikir/Karbi.
According to the IMTN, a conglomeration of the four minority non Naga tribes in Nagaland that are recognized as indigenous inhabitants in the State, the Naga Hoho ‘recommendation’ is “nothing but mischief and attempts to dilute the historical and traditional facts.”
“The Minority Tribes have a clear past, traditions, boundaries and territories before and after the creation of the State of Nagaland,” noted IMTN President L Lun Tungnung in a press release today. These tribes have been part of the landmass today called the State of Nagaland through “clear History, Territories, Villages and boundaries like the other recognized Tribes of Nagaland,” he noted.
The IMTN maintained that the present government and ‘NGOs’ should not “try to dilute the status of the Minority Recognized Tribes-Kuki, Kachari, Garo & Mikir-just because we had become second class citizens within our own state of Nagaland due to factors mostly beyond our controls and circumstances.”
