Newmai News Network
SENAPATI, OCT 31: While reacting strongly to the statement of the Kangpokpi based Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU), the United Naga Council (UNC) said today that it “will not tolerate any move to annihilate the Naga brethren from their age old ancestral homeland and should the council offers its humble advisory to all concerns that it is best for all communities to mutually respect each other’s history and position and continue to co-exist peacefully”.
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Whilst expressing its best greetings and wishes of peace and prosperity to the Liangmai Naga community during the celebration of Chaga-Ngee Festival, 2024, which usually occasions in the post harvest that holds close to their heart, practicing traditionally intertwined with their land, culture, stories and livelihood of the people since time immemorial, the UNC, in a statement issued to Newmai News Network tonight, said that it was shocked to learn the “misnomer statement made by one so called Committee on Tribal Unity (COTU), disrespecting the sentiment of the Liangmai people and disrupting the solemnity of its festivity on October 30, 2024”. The Naga body said such an “outrageous statement amounts to disturbing the essence of the festivity of one community and aggressive claims as their domain ‘Kukis areas’ over the Liangmai Naga ancestral land by the COTU is absurd”.
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As a matter of fact, the UNC said that Manipur is a home of mixed communities with different set of cultures and rich festivities of the various communities occasioning across the length and breadth of the state that has been mutually respected for ages which also ushers social harmony and peaceful co-existence of the different community living in the state. “Essentiality of maintaining the same needs to be realized by all concerns as usual, despite all differences and circumstances we are in, to ensure peace and cordiality amongst the communities,” the UNC added.