Lamka, September 15: Even as the Hmar National Assembly, the political wing of Hmar National Army, today announced the relaxation of their indefinite ban on all passenger buses for 45 days effective from tomorrow, it has served a stern warning that if the Government fails to look into their demands then they would be constrained to serve quit notices on the Meiteis settled at Churachandpur.

"HNA will have no option but to serve Quit notices.

The notices on the Meitei community to leave Churachandpur will be issued to them and the Village at Kangvai will be transformed into Inter-State boundary", it asserted.

A statement signed by VL Hmar and LS Lungtau, secretary and president of HNA claimed that the Meiteis and the Hmars belong to the larger Tibeto-Burman family ethnologically and geographically, and were supposed to have led a peaceful co-existance side by side.

In the course of their armed struggle for liberation, it is natural that there would be civilian casualties, but the intentional actsof terror and violence perpetrated by ULFA/KCP cadres on the villagers of Lungthulien and Parbung undermine the whole movement, it added.

The refusal of the SPF Government to consider the proposal of the HNA is one thing, but the very fact that it has a different attitude to the Hmar refugees shows its contempt of the Hmar tribes, said the HNA statement.

Hence, the caveat.

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