GoI's silence is tantamount to complicity: UNC
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 08 2026: Strongly condemning the Government of India's stoic silence in the face of foreign armed aggression, the Working Committee of the United Naga Council (UNC) has asserted that when indigenous citizens are fired upon and displaced by foreign militants on Indian territory, silence is tantamount to complicity.

The UNC has vehemently condemned the barbaric cross-border invasion perpetrated by the Myanmar based armed Kuki militants, KNA-B and unprovoked attack carried out by Kuki militants operating under SoO agreement on May 7, 2026 at Indo-Myanmar international border and Sa-nakeithel (Sinakeithei) village At approximately 4 am, a force of around 100 heavily armed terrorists breached the international border from Myanmar and executed a premeditated assault upon the Naga villages of Namlee, Wanglee, Ashang Khullen (KAKA), and Z Choro.

These villages are the ancestral home of multiple Naga tribes, not of a single community, with Aloyo and Choro in particular sustaining diverse Naga populations, the UNC said in a statement.

Employing sophisticated weaponry, the assailants fired indiscriminately upon civilians and set dwelling houses ablaze.

Women, children, and the elderly have been forced to flee into the deep jungles, abandoned without food, shelter, or medical care.

This constitutes a brazen assault upon India's sovereignty and a direct violation of the lives and dignity of indigenous Naga peoples, it said.

The Sanakeithel village was attacked from the Lungthar Hill Range where heavily armed Kuki mercenaries are positioned unleashing heavy rounds of gun fire injuring many civilians at approximately 12.30 pm.

The UNC has also condemned the alleged deliberate inaction of Central security forces deployed along the Indo-Myanmar border.

"The forces stood as mute spectators while our villages burned.

This dereliction has extinguished the Naga people's trust and confidence in Central forces", the UNC said.

Out of the thousand refugees earlier languishing in Naga villages, there are still around 300 Kukis who are taking refuge at Namlee-Wanglee, it said.

The Naga body alleged that children of these refugees are enrolled as PDF/KNA(B) and involved in the act of arson at Namlee-Wanglee and Z Choro.

The UNC has demanded immediate and decisive military action by the Government of India to neutralize the foreign aggressors and restore the sanctity of the Indo-Myanmar international border.

"We demand the urgent deployment of Manipur State forces, in whom the people repose their sole trust.

We further demand emergency relief for displaced women, children, and the elderly now sheltering in jungles, and a high-level, time-bound inquiry into how about 100 militants crossed the border undetected following a security visit on May 6, 2026, with culpability established and accountability enforced," it said.

The UNC said that it shall not remain silent while Naga ancestral territory along the Indo-Myanmar border is violated and its people rendered refugees in their own homeland.

It also took strong exception to the selective protection and biased enforcement of the State machinery as evident in destroying Naga village guards' bunkers and shelter shed and intimidation to Naga villagers in Shokvao, Sharkaphung, Leingangching (Laho), New Heaven, Ringui and Sirarakong while guarding the Kuki villages without touching their bunkers by the Central security forces, especially Assam Rifles.

This apparent double standard of Indian Army, explicit collusion with one community is highly unacceptable and raises serious questions behind the actions.

Moreover, the Government's indifferent attitude is alarming that so far no security measures have been taken up by the Government in and around the vulnerable Naga villages in foothills and Kangpokpi areas despite repeated appeals from the concerned villages and their parent bodies.

The prevailing phenomenal aggression orchestrated by the State actors using Kuki mercenaries under the guise of SoO pact with GoI and Myanmar based KNA-B is not an isolated case but a calculated and coordinated attack over the indigents of the land which will have a far reaching ramification, it said.

The UNC demanded the Government to come clean on this proxy arrangement against the Naga.

Moreover, the state Government's inaction in the prevailing situation is unfounded and raises questions about its intentions, it said before asking if the present dispensation is an unpopular Government, designed to work at the behest of one community.

If the Government of India and the Ministry of Home Affairs are unable to guarantee the protection of Naga civilians and their properties, then the continued deployment of security forces in the Indo-Myanmar border be removed, the Naga people will take its own course to defend and safeguard the security and Naga ancestral land, it added.

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