DIMAPUR, SEPT 4 (MExN): The NSCN (I-M) today said consultations through peaceful means, whereby an understanding can be arrived at by involving all parties, is the way to a pragmatic solution on the current land dispute between Manglamukh and Jalukie Zangdi villages.
“Solution will come out of sense, not out of emotion,” the organization’s MIP Kilonser, Tongmeth Wongnao, told reporters at Camp Hebron after a tour of the villages, and the area where structures were burnt down by NSCN (I-M) men on August 28 last.
A hands-on inspection also revealed that most of the burnt structures were shoddily built and did not show signs of an organized village.
Pointing out that things were blown out of proportion, the kilonser said frontal public organizations such as the Naga Hoho and the Naga Students’ Federation should have made on-the-spot verifications before coming out with condemnations.
Agreeing to a ‘humane approach’ in solving the dispute as proposed by the Naga Mothers Association and the Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights, Tongmeth said, “All parties should reason.” He said he had suggested that 2-3 vehicles carrying yesterday’s rally participants under the banner of the Zeliangrong Baudi should come forward to submit their memorandum under security cover of the NSCN (I-M). This proposal was reportedly rejected.
Tongmeth said the marchers who had taken great pains to peacefully demonstrate for their demands had been “successful” in placing their wants through the rally. Strongly advocating that communalization should be done away with, he said the organization’s ‘Kilo Kilonser’ and “Home Secretary” had acted not on the behest of their tribe, but for the NSCN-IM.
