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Imphal, March 25, 2007: The Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights, Delhi Sector (NPMHR-Delhi) extends its solidarity and support to the rally organized by the Kuki Students Organization (KSO) in New Delhi on March 23 “against injustice”.

Delhi sector of the Naga rights body in a statement issued to Newmai News Network by its covenor Ningreichon Tungshang and its co-convenor Neikesanuo Sorhie said that NPMHR-Delhi Sector strongly “condemned the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) for capturing of 400 Kuki villagers from TS Laijang Village in Chandel District and forcibly taking them to Lallim/Namunta Village on March 13, 2007 in collusion with the Burmese Military Junta”.

The statement further said that the NPMHR-Delhi Sector had been “disturbed by the apathy of Manipur government and its people who chose to remain silent when violence is perpetrated to a community and to humanity. We are disgraced by the inability of the Manipur state government that has not done anything for the victims, instead aiding the perpetrators and leaving the people to fend themselves from the atrocities and violence perpetrated by both the state and the non-state armed groups”.

The Delhi based Naga rights body expressed its unhappiness over manner of the coverage the newspapers had been done and alleged that “the media besides delaying has been selective and manipulative while reporting, playing down the seriousness of the issue when for long the people in Chandel and Churachandpur have been reeling under hardship, struggling between life and death compounded by the landmines planted in those areas. Let us remind ourselves that landmines know no enemies. It kills anyone. It is of great concern that the villagers have been suffering in the hands of these non state armed groups who call themselves freedom fighters, liberators. Let it be known to them that their action is anti people and that the innocent people have become victims of their selfish designs”.

The NPMHR-Delhi further alleged that the rape of 21 women in Tipaimukh area under Churachandpur district still haunts “our memories”.

The Naga rights body, meanwhile shares the pain and the trauma of those women whose nightmares they will relive many more times. It then expressed that there was nothing it could do to undo what had been done to them but assures that the Naga rights body will be with the victims till justice is delivered.

“Let it be known to the perpetrators that ‘you stood up for the cause of the suffering people not to cause suffering to the people so you better be responsible for you are answerable to people and to Justice.’NPMHR reaffirms our stand against injustices.Kuknalim!”, concluded the NPMHR-Delhi Sector by quoting Malcolm X’s famous lines which says, “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole”

Source: Newmai News Network