DIMAPUR, AUGUST 30 (MExN): Giving reason for the burning down of around 30 houses at Jalukie Zangdi on August 28, the “ministry” of Kilo (Home) affairs, National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) today stated that Manglamukh village authorities had submitted a memorandum to the Collective Leadership, “which they re-directed to the Kilo Ministry.”
“Therefore, the Kilo Ministry thoroughly investigated the said case and found that the land belongs to Manglamukh village with sufficient documents,” a press release said.
“The Kilo Ministry issued directive order to the Council Chairman Jalukie Zangdi Village (Memo No. 01-03/DIRT/MKA-07). The concern villagers were directed to evict the forceful occupation/development taken up in the Manglamukh village land within three days with immediate effect.”
The statement order was reportedly issued on July 11 consequent upon the directive of the Collective Leadership in superseding all or any other preceded orders basing “on the sketch map and other relevant documentation produced and submitted to the GPRN.”
“The following underline boundary demarcation between Manglamukh village and Jalukie Zangdi village, Dhansiripar sub-division, district Dimapur is hereby promulgated for all concerned with immediate effect. This order shall herein be enforced forthwith, relating to any land dispute that may arise in posterity, and is legitimately, legally binding and final whatsoever.”
The NSCN (I-M) warned that any individual, party or village acting in contradiction to the ‘azha’ would be dealt with firmly “according to the law of the land.”
The statement said the directive of the order dated July 26 was in consonance with the directive of the GPRN. The order of the higher echelons “is hereby served to one and all illegal encroachers for eviction from forceful occupation and illicit land grabbing, belonging to Manglamukh village – their ancestral abode in the wake of the Government judgment adopted vides Oking the 11th July ’07 which supersedes all preceding other orders within a time bound of three days from issue of this order.”
The statement said it is mandatory for all concerned ‘encroachers’ to dismantle or remove any “hutment structure of related nature” and to subsequently vacate the encampment for good.
The NSCN (I-M) further said the statement that surfaced in the paper as ‘Jalukie Zangdi does not belong to the Zeliangrong community but to the Kacharies and Mias’ is a misquoted statement and that the Kilo Secretary Bohoto Kiba “never ever” made mention of it as stated.
“Therefore, all individuals, or groups are directed not to mislead the general public on the issue of eviction. This eviction was made only to the wayside forceful encroachers and not Jalukie Zangdi village.”
