Dimapur, August 29 (MExN): The Tangkhul Naga Long has expressed strong disapproval at what it called the audacity of the Sangai Express, a local daily in Manipur, for sensationalizing the report on the ‘Quite Notice’ served to the Tangkhuls living in Nagaland. The Long warned that if the editor of Sanghai Express fails to retract his statements, a legal course of action would be taken against him.
“After spitting venom and inciting fratricidal war between the Nagas, how on earth could the Sangai Express come out justifying themselves by saying (quoting the newspaper): it is truth that Mr. Angkang did not specifically use the words, No one will cow down to the diktats and leave Nagaland but it is true that he said the meeting at Dimapur endorsed that the Tangkhuls would not flee Nagaland in the face of the Quit Notice.’ From this statement it was inferred that no will cow down to the diktats and leave Nagaland” stated Stephen Angkang President of Tangkhul Naga Long in a rejoinder.
“The long also state that the caller on August 19 who identified himself as the Sangai Express Ukhrul correspondent (and not an employee as you have willfully changed his identity- August 28 issue) and I communicate that in Tangkhul dialect.
He enquired whether the Dimapur meeting of the Tangkhul Community had asked all Tangkhuls to leave Nagaland. I replied, the decision to leave or not to leave Nagaland is not known to me. I never said the Dimapur meeting endorsed that the Tangkhuls would not flee Nagaland in the face of the ‘Quit Notice’” the rejoinder asserted while terming it fictitious and malicious.
“It is highly deplorable for an Editor of one of the leading English Daily in Manipur to use such abusive and provocative language regardless of the sensitivity when the lives of hundred of Tangkhul men, women and children in Nagaland are walking on thin ice. Hence, the Editor of Sangai Express is advised to retract his statement or face legal course of action” the Long warned.
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