Stop fencing, say Kuki bodies
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, September 23 2013: Expressing shock over the news that a boundary fencing wall is proposed to come up in the heart of the "Independent Hill Country," ie, in between India and Myanmar, the Kuki Inpis of the whole region and the Kuki Organization for Human Rights have urged the Prime Minister of India and President of Myanmar to stop the proposed construction of border fencing between India and Myanmar.

A Lenthang, Kumpi (Chief) and Holkhomang Haokip, Thumop (Adviser) to the Kuki Inpis, in an open memorandum said that the proposal for constructing boundary wall in the middle of this particular "Independent Hill Country," will be comparable with that of Berlin Wall in Germany.

Berlin Wall makers might have a good reason and made the wall.

But the proposed boundary fencing wall here has no cogent reasons in the land owned by the indigenous people from time immemorial.

The indigenous Kuki will never allow neither to divide their land nor separate themselves from their ancestral land.

Sensing the recent statement of Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India, for constructing the iron fencing wall in the midst of innocent indigenous people in the region of "India's Northeast and the Bay of Bengal," the statement strongly felt that unless such statement is retrieved, it would end-up with loosing thousands of innocent lives.

The British umbrella Govt in the "Independent Hill Country" had never ever constructed boundary fencing wall, and kept indigenous people of the region (land) freely moving without prohibition.

If the proposed boundary is ever constructed without the consent of the indigenous people, it will be like to put fuel to the fire of the violent torn region which has been crying for peace for the last several years, it said.

A total stoppage to the proposed boundary wall here will be the only means for restoring peace and normalcy in the land where over 50 groups of underground movements are recently flourishing, yet the two Governments - India and Myanmar - plus the newly born Bangladesh could not restore peace till today, the statement further said.

A copy of the open memorandum has been forwarded to the United Nation Organisation and also to UNPFII Office in New York for kind information and advice, it added.

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