Limalenden Longkumer
Mokokchung | August 27
This is the story of a young man who gave his everything for the love of his nation. It was in the spring of 1963 that this young man joined the Naga political movement. ‘Captain’ Tiatemjen, a promising young ‘officer’ of the ‘Naga army’ along with his comrades set off on an ‘alee command’ in 1968, under the order of the “kedaghe” of the Federal Government of Nagaland. The mission however was foiled by the Burmese Army. Tiatemjen lost his life during an encounter with the Burmese Army on May 10, 1968. According to unconfirmed reports, twenty-five Naga cadres lost their lives in this particular mission.
After forty one long years, the mortal remains of Tiatemjen were finally brought home. A memorial service was held in honour of late Tiatemjen at his brother’s residence in Mokokchung town. According to family sources, the mortal remains of Tiatemjen were exhumed from his ‘temporary’ burial site in a village called ‘Yangoon’ in Burma, now Myanmar. It took two months and twenty seven days to bring his remains from that village to Mokokchung. After the memorial service, family members, relatives, well-wishers and former colleagues took his mortal remains to his native village of Longkhum.
Another memorial service was held there before being finally laid to rest in his family burial site. Tiatemjen was the second son of a legendary Naga leader and vice-president of the Naga National Council, Imkongmeren.
