Dimapur, Jan. 15: United Naga Council (UNC) has condemned in strongest term in which its president, Gaidon Kamei, was treated cruelly in the most inhuman and extreme manners including electric shock and other third degree methods of tortures after he was taken out at the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) on November 28, 2016.
UNC president, Gaidon Kamei, and its information and publicity secretary, SK Stephen, were arrested on November 25, 2016, while protecting and safeguarding the Naga ancestral land.
Considering the barbaric torture meted out to them, UNC said the Government of Manipur will be entirely held responsibility for any consequences that happened to Gaidon Kamei and SK Stephen. ‘There have been countless instances where many vehicles belonging to the Nagas were burnt down or destroyed including their properties worth crores of rupees. Many Nagas were seriously beaten just that they belong to Naga community,’ UNC through its Media Cell claimed. It mentioned that on December 18 at Lamlong area of Imphal, 45 vehicles belonging to Nagas heading for Ukhrul district were either burnt down or completely destroyed thereby leading hundreds of those stranded innocent passengers of the vehicles holed up for the whole night without letting them go in the Meitei community hall under the very nose of Manipur security forces. UNC has demanded to know from the communal State government if it had ever lodged any FIRs against those gangs and mobsters who had committed those heinous crimes.
It alleged that O Ibobi Singh had failed to respect and uphold the letter and spirit of the 4 MoUs signed between the Government of Manipur and the Naga people and also the written assurance given by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. It further accused that the Manipur government had failed to clarify the position of the so called Sadar Hills and Jiribam as per press statement of the Naga Peoples’ Organisation (NPO) Tahamzam (Senapati) dated the 27th October 2016.
Meanwhile, UNC has resolve to carry forward with its on-going agitation/
UNC said Manipur chief mister O Ibobi and his government was answerable for dishonouring the letter and spirit of the MoUs and written assurance.
Stating that the position of the Nagas on its ancestral homeland was solidly well established since time immemorial, UNC said it will not allow anyone to decide upon our land without consulting the Nagas.
It said Naga people will not accept anything less than the already signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) between the Government of Manipur and the Naga people. It further asserted that UNC will not accept and succumb to any pressure under any circumstances ‘to our already firmly established position on our ancestral homeland.’
