DIMAPUR, JUNE 16 (MExN): The Konyak Union (KU) today issued a statement questioning the Union Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju’s recent statements regarding a “rehabilitation package” for NSCN (K) cadres if they surrender.
The KU wondered how the Union Minister could “settle the 7 decade old Naga struggles through a so called rehabilitation package?” “Such undermining expression of thought would only create more confusion and further provocation,” the KU stated, while urging both the Indian and Mayanmar governments to “sincerely understand the cultural, social, political and territorial sentiments & aspiration of the Nagas.”
It further refuted the Minister’s statement that late NSCN (K) Chairman, SS Khaplang had passed away at Kachin State, Myanmar. “Such unfounded statement is indeed a shocker as to how the Union Home Minister could be so ignorant about the territorial extension and existence of its immediate neighbour,” it said.
The KU noted that “Kachin is a tribe/state that occupies the North-eastern frontier of Myanmar. It shares its Western boundaries with the Nagas who occupies the North-western frontier under the Union of Myanmar. Since time immemorial, Kachin & Nagas had co-existed as a good neighbour hence there exist no territorial confusion but mutual respects for each others’ sentiments, aspiration and determination.”
Taka, it informed is a Naga town under Sagaing Division “which is undeniable Naga Territory since time immemorial.” “It can never be alienated through any external force. Hence, the Konyak Union appeals all concerned to refrain from such unfounded remarks,” the KU said.
The KU also ridiculed certain sections of the national media for terming the Nagaland Chief Minister’s condolence over the death of SS Khaplang as a “shocker.”
“In Nagaland, it is the people & the State Government that controls & subdues many form of violence. Hence, it is important for a responsible leader to express its grief during such hour. Such act of understandable relation was adhered & executed by the successive Chief Ministers of Nagaland where lesser bloodshed & violence had occurred,” the KU said.
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