KNO eyeing 'pan Kuki' entity
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network

Dimapur, March 04 2014 : The arena of Kuki political aspiration is widening up now with the Kuki National Organisation (KNO) started 'focussing or shifting gear' by way of attaching all the kindred tribes of the Kukis in the three countries of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh into the fold of the movement.

Kuki National Organisation (KNO) is one of the two umbrella organisations of Ku-ki underground outfits.

Under the KNO there are around 17 Kuki underground groups.

Talking to Newmai News Network this evening, Dr Seilen Haokip, considered as one of the think-tanks of the Kuki movement said they are 'shifting gear' now.

"The Government of India considers Kukis are insignificant," said Dr Seilen Haokip.

According to the KNO lea-der, the Government of India had never honoured its words which were promised or assured to the Kukis.

"Given this picture, we have lost our interest.

We now decided to go back to our people i.e.all the kin tribes of the Kukis in Myanmar, India and Bangladesh to take their views," said Dr Seilen Haokip.

According to him, the Ka-chins in Myanmar are the kins of the Kukis.

"There are also our kins in the Chitta-gong Hills in Bangladesh," added Dr Haokip.

When asked by NNN whether the KNO is habou-ring the idea of integrating all the Kuki inhabited areas of these three countries, Dr Seilen Haokip said, "We had talked with the Government of India and it had assured us many things but it never had honoured its words.

These promises and assurances of Delhi are non-existent now.

So we felt it that it is better to go back to our people and de-cide what can be done" .

Interestingly, KNO president PS Haokip had men- tioned it in his message on the KNO Raising Day on Fe-bruary 24 in Churachandpur district of Manipur that stret-ching from Kachin state of Burma covering up to Chang-lang district in Arunachal Pradesh and Tuensang and Mon districts of the Konyak and Khimniungan region in the present-day Nagaland in India, as well as the land of the Heimi people in Myanmar (Burma) to which tribe SS Khaplang, leader of Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K), including Upper Chindwin and Kale Kabow valley in Sagaing Division belong are entirely ethnic Kachin-Kuki inhabited.The Kachins have always maintained their link through folklore connections with the Kukis, the KNO chief had added.

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