UNC gratitude
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 20 2013:
The United Naga Council acknowledged the cooperation and solidarity of the general public in ensuring the successful observance of 48 hours total bandh in Nagas areas from the midnight of June 16.A UNC statement expressed thanks to the frontal organisation, Tribe Hohos, students' unions and youth organisations for effectively taking up ownership of the protest programme and also exercising utmost restraint to make it peaceful and violence free.
"The protest bandh was a clear message to the world that the Nagas in Manipur are determined to secure their political aspiration for an alternative arrangement outside the communal Government of Manipur pending settlement of the Indo-Naga issue.
With the continued and unstinted participation of the Naga people we will to take forward the people's movement till our aspiration is achieved," the UNC said.