Association condemns
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, September 19 2018: The Tangkhul Naga Wungnao Long (All Tangkhul Naga Village Chiefs) has denounced the commemoration of Black Day by the Kukis with an alleged agenda to jeopardise the Indo-Naga peace process and to divide the Naga tribes by inscribing the words 'Tangkhul-led NSCN IM' genocide in the monolith during the observation.

A press release issued by the association today conveyed that the Naga- Kuki ethnic conflict has a long torturous history not only restricted to the 1990s conflict.

The conflict never qualified as a genocide, ethnic cleansing, extermination, pogrom, massacre, etc and it was one ugly ethnic conflict in a series of skirmishes that beset both the communities in the past, it claimed and added that the conflict had never been a genocide as the homes, innocent people and families were pillaged and brutally murdered from both sides.

The association alleged that it is unfortunate many modern writers and news reporters put this conflict as per their convenience to deceive the present and younger generation.

Pointing out its priority to forgive each other for the past bitter history of mistrust, the Tangkhul Naga Wungnao Long said that the Naga has no sub-Naga tribe based political organizations when it comes to Naga political movement and denounced the language inscribed in the monolith adding that such a commemoration can potentially destroy goodwill gesture between communities.

Strongly condemning such an egregious display of bigotry and vitiating the atmosphere, it claimed that the Kuki's flippant attitude toward particular Tangkhul community is part of a larger, troubling pattern of instigating hatred.

It further continued that the association is forced to issue a statement to denounce all the fictitious claim and history written by some people to distort the fact and called for a peaceful coexistence despite the historical differences between the communities.

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