No village called K Songlung, says FNCC citing Manipur Gazette
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, January 27 2026: The Foothills Naga Coordination Committee (FNCC) has categorically stated that there is no village called K Songlung (II) as per the Manipur gazette.

Contrary to assertions made by the Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust (KOHUR), the Sadar Hills Chiefs' Association, and the Committee on Tribal Unity regarding the alleged arson committed by ZUF at the so called K Songlung (II), the FNCC has asserted that the site in question is not a village called "K Songlung," nor was any village set ablaze.

According to the Manipur (Hill Areas Village Authority) Act, 1956, a village must comprise a minimum of 20 households to be legally recognised.

Furthermore, there is no village called K Songlung (II) as per the Manipur Gazette.

What exists there are merely rudimentary structures set up for poppy cultivation in a Naga area, said a statement issued by the FNCC .

It said, "The action taken was therefore considered and directed solely against illegal farmhouses associated with poppy plantation, and not against any recognised village or civilian settlement.

It is patently clear that a Government-recognised village cannot logically consist of only two or three or four farmhouses or households, rendering the claim that this was a village untenable" .

While the FNCC does not condone or encourage the destruction of villages, it remains resolutely committed to opposing illicit poppy cultivation, which poses grave social, moral, and security threats to the region, it said.

While regretting the loss of property, the FNCC asserted that the location concerned is ancestral Inpui land, not a Kuki village called K Songlung, but merely illicit farmhouses utilized for unlawful activities, it said.

The FNCC categorically stated that lasting peace and co-existence can be achieved only when Kukis abandon their adventurously selfish policies of territorial domination/aggression, demographic manipulation/illegal population plantation, illicit poppy cultivation and playing victim card in Naga areas.

Contrary to assertions by Kuki CSOs that there are no poppy plantations in the so-called K Songlung area, it is on record that State and Central security forces jointly destroyed poppy plantations on November 2, 2025, November 8, 2025 and again on November 20, 2025 .

Urging the Government to address the issue of illegal territorial domination and illicit poppy cultivation by Kukis, the FNCC said that the continued allowance of poppy cultivation in the area bespeaks a lamentable failure of governance.

Instead of fomenting inter-communal tensions through misleading press statements and fabricated narratives aimed at legitimising illicit practices, the Kuki community must desist from pursuing policies of territorial aggrandisement, demographic alteration, and poppy cultivation, and cease playing the victim card in Zeliangrongpui and Naga areas, it said.

The 24-hour ultimatum issued by SAHILCA is construed as a provocative challenge that invites conflict which SAHILCA would do well to avoid, it added.

The Nuh Talei Kapho (Guardians of Ancestral Land and People) has asserted that the site where the ZUF carried out its anti-poppy cultivation drive on January 26 is near the Waphong Inthan area, not at any village called 'K Songlung' .

Historically, the area originally belonged to an Inpui village known as Tamphoimon, said a press release issued by Nuh Talei Kapho (NTK) .

It said that the Inpui inhabitants abandoned the area during the Kuki rebellion of 1918.Since then, the land has remained under the care and jurisdiction of Waphong Inthan village, it said.

The NTK asserted that the location concerned is ancestral Inpui land and not a village, but merely illegal farmhouses used for unlawful activities.

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