Indo-Myanmar border fencing UNC irked by development
Source: The Sangai Express
Senapati, January 14 2017:
The United Naga Council (UNC) has strongly opposed the construction of border fencing along Indo-Myanmar border at Pangsha village in Tuensang, Nagaland.
Terming it as a great injustice committed on the Naga people, the United Naga Council said that such border fencing is bound to deprive the inherent rights of the 'Naga family' from communicating to one another.
The United Naga Council, in a statement, further said such 'divisive policy' to create rift among the Naga family should be thwarted by every Naga.
Terming it as an act of felony, the United Naga Council said all the Nagas should oppose it as this border fencing infringes the rights of the Naga people.
It urged all the Naga organisations to join hands against the 'sinister' design to separate the Nagas, physically, emotionally and culturally.
The UNC also stated that the move is an act which is against humanity.
The Naga people will no longer tolerate external forces trying to separate the Naga family."For how long and how far the Naga family will be exposed to such sinister designs?" it questioned.
"Our land is contiguous and it shares traditional boundaries with other nation(s), community(s) or village(s).
We the Naga people, even today, protest against the bifurcation of our ancestral homeland by the colonialists by placing us in different countries, and also, in different States in India without the consent of the people.
The Naga people will not tolerate further division of our land and people under any circumstances by any kinds of artificial barriers," the UNC statement asserted.