UKHRUL: The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) ANSAM has sought the immediate intervention of the concerned authority to release the Naga civilians abducted by the Kuki National Army-Burma (KNA-B) and demanded for deployment of Manipur state forces and specialised State Commando units to affected Naga villages and vulnerable areas by removing all the central forces, especially the Assam Rifles.
“The concerned government must immediately initiate large-scale search and rescue operations to locate the missing villagers abducted by the Kuki militants, recover looted civilian properties, and ensure the protection and safe rehabilitation of displaced families affected by the attacks,” ANSAM said in a statement.
Condemning the cross-border aggression perpetrated by the Kuki armed militants under SoO and the foreign Burma-based People’s Defence Force (PDF) jointly with the Kuki National Army-Burma (KNA-B) aided by Kuki refugees upon innocent Naga villages along the Indo–Myanmar frontier in the Kamjong area of Ukhrul, ANSAM stated that the coordinated attacks which have been continuing upon the Naga villages of TM Kasom, Ringui, Thoyee, Sharkaphung, S. Laho and Sinakeithei, followed by the large-scale armed invasion carried out during the early hours of May 7 at Z. Choro, Namlee, Wanglee Market and Ashang Khullen (KAKA) tarnishing the houses into ashes had exposed their unlawful deliberate campaign of organised terror calculated to terrorise indigenous people of the land to fulfill their wild imaginary dream of Zalengam.
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It alleged that these crimes violating the International Human rights have been continuing in the Naga soil of Kamjong areas and Ukhrul district in Manipur following the illegal intrusion of hundreds of heavily armed KNA-B militants and Kuki PDF in coordination with the Kuki refugees from Myanmar who were taking temporary shelter in the Naga lands due to unrest violence in Myanmar, where the illegal armed foreigners and Kuki armed militants under SoO have been continuously launching indiscriminate gunfire, bombing, coordinated assaults from multiple directions.
ANSAM also questioned the Indian Armed forces of their biased actions while alleging that the heinous crime of burning down and destroying the civilian habitations took place under the nose of the Indian security forces deployed there to protect the people and defend the land. ANSAM also took note of the alarming pattern of inaction, questionable neutrality, and perceived partiality displayed by Indian Security Forces especially the Assam Rifles operating in these vulnerable regions.
“The repeated recurrence of nomadic Kuki militancy attacks immediately following Indian security movements has generated grave public suspicion and widespread anger among the indigenous population,” it stated.
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It further stated that combat drones were illegally utilised by them for bombing during the attack and the execution of armed operations, thereby escalating the scale and sophistication of terror inflicted upon defenceless civilian populations.
“The systematic burning and destruction of houses were carried out with the active involvement of refugee elements taking shelter in the affected regions, thereby deepening the gravity of the humanitarian and security crisis. Women, children, and elderly villagers were forced to flee into forests and wildernesses under horrifying conditions of terror, displacement, and devastation,” it stated while adding that the continued failure to decisively intercept foreign armed infiltrators despite prior security presence has created a dangerous perception that the security concerns of the Naga people are being neglected with shocking indifference.
It continued that (KNA-B) and PDF, being foreign Burma-origin militant formations, possess absolutely no historical, political, territorial, or moral legitimacy to “infiltrate and unleash violence” upon indigenous Naga territories.
Stating that no refugee-backed militant apparatus or foreign armed syndicate should ever possess the legitimacy to desecrate ancestral Naga lands through terror, looting, abduction, and militarised encroachment, ANSAM termed the abduction, disappearance, intimidation, and terrorisation of indigenous villagers by the Myanmar based Kuki armed militants a “gross violation of human rights” and an unforgivable assault upon the collective dignity and security of the Naga people.
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Seeking the immediate release of the abducted Naga civilians, ANSAM demanded the concerned government to immediately initiate large-scale search and rescue operations to locate the missing villagers, recover looted civilian properties, and ensure the protection and safe rehabilitation of displaced families affected by the attacks.
The association extended absolute and unflinching solidarity with the affected villages and displaced families enduring terror, devastation, displacement, and unspeakable insecurity. It also cautioned the Nagas to remain vigilant, resolute, and unyielding against every manifestation of foreign militant intrusion, refugee-backed extremism, territorial aggression, organised looting, civilian intimidation, and externally engineered terrorism directed in Naga areas.
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It further warned that the Nagas will remain as mere spectators while reminding the Government of India and Government of Manipur to “sincerely” intervene to all these unwarranted crimes committed by the illegal immigrants violating the International rights and to bring solution based on the historical facts. Failure of the concerns to seek solution leading to dire consequences shall be held responsible by the GoI and GoM, it warned.