Mao Gate incident remembered
Speakers ask India to stop dirty politics & say Nagas ready to shed more blood
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Imphal, May 06 2012:
Speakers at the commemorative function of May 6 Mao Gate incident said the government of India should stop playing dirty politics with the Nagas.
Two students were killed in the Mao Gate incident on May 6 in 2010 at the Manipur-Nagaland border when Nagas rose up against the barring of NSCN-IM leader Thuingaleng Muivah from visiting his home village Somtal in Ukhrul district by the government of Manipur.
The students were killed in the firing by security force.
Commemorating the event during an observance function organised by Mao Council under the aegis of United Naga Council today, speakers while asking the government of India to be serious about the Naga political issue, stated categorically that said Nagas are ready to shed more blood.
Neli Chakho and Dikho Loshuo were killed on the fateful day.
Observing the 2nd anniversary of the incident at Martyrs Park, Mao Gate representatives from Naga frontal organizations from Nagaland and Manipur, students, social leaders and family members of the late students paid rich tributes to the departed souls under scorching sun.
Moderated by M.Dili, former Naga Peoples Organisation (NPO) president and Grace Shatsang, former Naga Women Union president, different Naga frontal leaders including UNC president, Naga Hoho general secretary spoke on the occasion.
Solidarity messages were also delivered by CFAA, UNC, NMA, NSF, NPMHR, Mao Naga Women's Welfare Association narrating the May 6, 2010 incident.
As part of the special tribute to the "heroes who laid their lives for the cause", the Naga Students Federations (NSF) along with ANSAM tribe units planted tree saplings in and around the park.