Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 25:
Sharply reacting to the statement of the Naga Peoples' Movement for Human Rights, wherein it accused the UNLF of confining 400 Kuki refugees at Myanmar, the outfit today said that the very statement not only exposes the narrow outlook of the rights body but also shows their lack of integrity.
In a statement, the outfit said that a team of media persons had independently confirmed that the propaganda spread by the KSO and some Kuki organisations that 400 Kuki refugees were kept captives by the UNLF at Myanmar was wrong as all the villagers had returned home.
Apprehensive that the media persons will spill the beans and expose the truth to the whole world, KSO volunteers confiscated their cameras while they were returning to Imphal, UNLF recalled.
Since their blatant lies and misinformation campaign could not bear fruits, KSO turned its attention to Delhi instead which must have pleased the Government of India, UNLF said.
Despite knowing the truth and without trying to ascertain the facts, the Naga Peoples' Movement for Human Rights has blindly accused the UNLF of keeping the villagers hostage, said the outfit and added that it is not surprising for the NPMHR is infamous for interpreting the universal concept of human rights along ethnic lines.
Everyone knows what type of an organisation the NPMHR is.
Though human rights is a universal concept, the NPMHR did not utter a word when thousands of Kukis were killed and rendered homeless during the pogrom unleashed by the UNLF, maintained UNLF.
The Kukis were killed and their villages razed to the ground under the scheme of Naga expansionism for Nagalim, said the outfit adding it was ethnic cleansing.
A deafening silence when it concerns the NSCN (IM) and a loud yell when it comes to the UNLF exposes the double standard of the NPMHR, said the outfit further.
No mention of human rights violations was made when the Indian security force used the villagers of Dingpi and Khengjoi areas as forced labour, human shields and when their women folk were raped, charged the outfit.
The very reason for this double standard is to sow the seeds of discord amongst the different community and also to alienate the UNLF from the public.
If the NPMHR is really a human rights organisation then they should go to the spot to record the truth instead of taking instructions at New Delhi.
The decisions taken by the KSO and the NPMHR in playing into the trap of India will amount to shooting themselves on the feet, asserted the outfit.