ZO conference deliberates issues confronting Chin-Kuki-Mizo group
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Lamka, March 14 2013:
In the ZO (Chin-Kuki- Mizo-Zomi) Conference held at YPA Hall, Hiangtam Lamka today, Kuki National Organisation (KNO) president PS Haokip has extended brotherly solutions to R Thangmawia, President of Zo Reunification Organisation, Gen.
Headquaters, Aizawl and leaders of various organisation within the Indo-Burma-Bangladesh frontier region.
PS Haokip said 'a part of Zo territory within Burma now Myanmar has been secured by our Chin brothren for our posterity, but we are yet to secure our political rights there, and apart from our territory within Burma which lies to north of Chin State within Sagang Division, the Zo people have political heritage to claim those territories as our own, and that remains one of the objectives of KNO/KNA' .
He went on to observe that KNO's ideology is centred on Kuki political identity encompassing all the tribes and leveraging the political heritage, KNO seeks to place before 'our political system of benevolent and consensual democracy'.
KNO's political objectives include statehood for Zo people comprising their ancestral land, one in present day Manipur, and one in present day Chin state of Burma, and these two units of our land will later from the food bowl of Zogam/Zoram.
With regard to relation with Meiteis, the KNO Chief maintained that mutual independence of Zomi or Kuki- Chin and Meiteis have been manifested in the Khongjom war of 1891, in which the Meitei fought the British to protect Kangleipak, and the Zo people protect their freedom and forefather land.
Unification of Zo nation (Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi), the second nationalism is a goal of ZORO/ZRO and KNO shares the same.
If this be true at this critical junction, it is essential for us to make concerted our effort towards establishing our own state, he said.
The KNO Chief further pointed out that in Tripura, Zomi people face severe treat and deluge of displaced people from East Bengal, and appealed to the maharaja to intensify what he has initiated for the indigenous native people.