KNO's poser on Kuki- Naga reconciliation day
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 14 2013:
Reacting to the invitation send out by Kuki Peoples Forum in connection with the Kuki-Naga Reconciliation Day celebration to be held in Chandel district on November 16, Kuki National Organisation (KNO) has advised all the Kuki people in Chandel district refrain from attending such celebration summoned by 'puppets of the enemy' .
In a statement, Stephen Kuki, Under Secretary of Information & Publicity of the outfit maintained that KNO has always stood for settlement of Kuki people's and other communities' rights for bringing about peace and development through mutual dignity and respect.
So, despite the genocide of Kuki people from 1992-1997 by National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak&Muivah), in true Christian teaching of 'turning the other cheek', KNO proposed an MoU with specific measures regarding reconciliation of the two Christian communities, Kuki and Naga.
However, rather than following their own tenet of 'Nagaland for Christ', NSCN (IM) resorted to their usual subversive method to gain control Chandel District through United Kuki Liberation Front, which is unfathomably aligned to them.
On this occasion they have fabricated 'Kuki Peoples (Sic) Forum' to organise 'Kuki-Naga Reconciliation Day Celebration to be held on Saturday the 16th of November 2013 at District Sports Complex Christian village at 09 00 AM sharp' .
For the benefit of the Kuki and Naga communities, who may cherish real and lasting reconciliation, it is important to recall that in 1994, Kuki Inpi and United Naga Council, both legitimate representatives of their respective peoples, held a reconciliatory meeting at Manipur Baptist Convention in Imphal.
However, the resolution for 'peace and reconciliation' was nullified because NSCN (IM), on the part of the Nagas, did not accept it.
Furthermore, following the meeting at Manipur Baptist Convention, Nagas abducted the vice-president of Kuki Inpi and after three days his beheaded body packed in a gunny bag was discovered in a pond.
Therefore, today, or whenever, if there is to be reconciliation of Kuki and Naga peoples, then the two legitimate bodies, Kuki Inpi and United Naga Council must represent the two communities, Kuki and Naga and Kuki National Organisation and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak&Muivah) must endorse the resolutions of peace and reconciliation passed by Kuki Inpi and United Naga Council, Stephen Kuki said.
Stephen went on to say, again, for the benefit of the Kuki and Naga people who are in favour of true reconciliation, it is pertinent to be aware that preceding the 'Kuki Peoples Forum' invitation, the UKLF invited 260-odd Kuki chieftains at Sugnu on 4 - 5 November 2003 .
On the 4th, the sermons were given to the chieftains in the name of God but on the 5th, they were made to put their signatures on blank papers.
This sinister nature of the proceedings is clear evidence of what was intended: it is self-evident that NSCN (IM) wishes to project to the Government of India, with whom they have been in political dialogue that they have made peace with the Kuki people.
By convincing GoI, NSCN (IM), with the same brush stroke wishes to 'capture' Chandel, rather than relinquish their claim to the one hundred per-cent ethnic Kuki inhabited district.
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