Kuki body urges Naga interlocutor to settle crimes committed by NSCN-IM
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 01 2014 :
Kuki Organisation for Human Rights, in a memorandum to the Naga talks interlocutor RN Ravi, urged to settle the heinous crimes perpetrated by NSCN (IM), before any settlement of the Indo-Naga issue.
"Before any kind of agreement is reached with the NSCN-IM, please understand the clear stance and demand of the Kuki Inpi (traditional Government) to settle first the 'heinous crimes' committed by the Naga militant outfit in the proper law court of the country to show law and order is maintained by the Government of India", the Kuki Organisation for Human Rights (KOHR) has written to RN Ravi, interlocutor for Naga talks.
In the open memorandum signed by its chairman T.Lunkim, KOHR said 905 innocent Kukis including children, women and old persons, 360 Kuki villages were uprooted and seized their land, and 100,000 were rendered homeless in their ancestral homeland by the NSCN-IM.
The Kuki-Naga conflict occurred in 1990s.The memorandum, copies of which are also sent to President, Prime Minister, Home Minister and others, said the likely agreement between the Centre and NSCN-IM will damage the image of the Government of India if the heinous crimes committed by the Naga militant group against the indigenous Kukis are not settled first in the proper law court.
Twenty-four pictures of murder, several memoranda and a well-documented book "The Plight of the Indigenous Kuki People" published by Kuki Movement for Human Rights which were enclosed with the latest memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be sympathetically read and understood for the sake of justice and peace in the country and North East in particular, the memorandum urged RN Ravi.
It said the then BJP Government at the Centre headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee promised to take appropriate action through proper court to deliver justice during a meeting with representatives of Kuki social organisations on July 21, 2001, adding the meeting was also attended by former Union Home Minister LK Advani and former interlocutor for Naga talks, K Padmanabhaiah.
The memorandum also said that the organisation is confident that the present BJP Government at the Centre would fulfill the promise made by former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee through the able guidance of RN Ravi in the hope to bring justice and peace in the country.