Dimapur Chakhesang Council (DCC) Thursday condemned the “barbaric and shocking crime” committed on a Naga woman by five “non-local (Mians)” at East Block, Burma camp, Dimapur Monday night.
In a statement jointly issued by DCC chairman W. Kholie Kapfo and vice chairman Muneyi Hiesuh said such “beastly” acts and anti social activities was not known in the social fabric of the Nagas in the past. With the coming of migrants, especially “Muslim community”, Naga culture has been “diluted by scores of “filthy” behaviours, statement said
DCC reminded that it was time for Nagas to “act and not just preach and watch”. DCC also acknowledged Naga Council and Naga Woman Hoho Dimapur for the initiative in formulating policies to curb “anti-social” elements. It also lauded Dimapur police for the prompt action in arresting the four accused and urged authorities to award exemplary punishment to the culprits.
NMA: Stating it has viewed seriously the recurrence of spate of violence and crimes committed; the Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA) Thursday said expressed strong condemnation that every human being has the right and dignity to live and therefore to value human lives.
NMA president Abeiu Meru and secretary Lochumbeni Humtsoe, in a joint statement, said peace committee members of NMA, with its advisors, sat for an emergency meeting Thursday on the rising factional violence and rape of Naga women by illegal immigrants.
NMA said their stand on the latest crime against women by illegal immigrant, was for the government to take immediate stringent measures and adopt strong action to check illegal immigrants from entering Nagaland.
NMA demanded severest punishment as per the law against the accused. NMA also resolved to call for an emergency meeting to have wider consultation to address serious concerns of factional violence.
NSWON: National Socialist Women Organization of Nagalim (NSWON) –– a women wing of the NSCN (I-M) –– Thursday expressed “shock and anger” at the inhuman act of rape committed against a young married Naga woman by five Muslim immigrants February 6 at Burma Camp, Dimapur.
In an emailed statement, NSWON said “audacity to commit such a heinous crime by refugees in the presence of her helpless husband and in our own soil clearly indicates the seriousness of the situation.”
Describing rape as “an alien culture” to Nagas, NSWON however, said the counting has never stopped with one incident after the other, “whether it is raping of three Naga girls on the Holy pulpit of Yankili Church by the Indian Army or death of Ms. Rose of Kumram village or hordes of others, or for that matter the regular raping and murders of Naga girls every few months in Indian metropolitan cities especially in the Capital Delhi, now it has come to our own home turf.”
Stating that such crimes were contagious to the society, NSWON said it not only condemns the act in strongest words but urged to take stringent steps to put a total halt once and for all. It also expressed sincere sympathy to the victim’s family.
TPO: Dismayed by the rape incident, where five immigrants mercilessly assaulted physically, one of “our sister and her husband and then gang raped her”, Tenyimi People’s Organization (TPO) strongly condemned the incident and said such act was nothing but another glaring example of “how the guests in our own homeland are trying to respond to the simplicity, honesty, generosity and the hospitality given to them”.
Declaring that “Tenyimi would never forgive instead would respond in a befitting manner”, TPO said it was disgracing and unacceptable to the Tenyimi”.
In a statement, TPO president keku Zelaing demanded the law enforcing agencies particularly “the judiciary that severe and exemplary action be awarded to the arrested accused, else the Tenyimi will not hesitate to initiate its own course of action as per the existing law of the land,” TPO stated.
Further, while expressing beliefs and age old traditional practices of pure democracy, peace and peaceful co-existence, TPO reminded every citizen living in Tenyimi traditional boundaries that it would not remain a silent spectator but resort to own course of actions deemed fit to protect its own people and land.
SPFDD: Sangtam Peoples’ Forum Dimapur District (SPFDD) has also “strongly condemned” the gang rape of a Naga woman by mians (illegal immigrants).
Such anti-social activity should not be allowed to exist in civilized society at any cost, SPFDD president Er. T. Athriba in a statement said.
SPFDD assured all possible cooperation to the leading social organization handling the issue in their endeavour to eradicate such incident in future. Further, the forum requested the general public to be vigilant and avoid employing illegal immigrants in their day to day works.
NMDA: Nagaland Medicine Dealers Association (NMDA) has condemned in strongest words the gang rape of 23 year old Naga Lady and physical assault on her husband Monday night by the group of five immigrant Miya criminals. It also termed the act as “father of all crimes ever committed by any migrant in Nagaland.”
In a joint statement, NMDA president Ato Yepthomi and general secretary Basu Damani said the association has issued “strong directive” to all its members to properly verify the authenticity of the person, especially foreign immigrants coming from neighboring state of Assam and seeking job in Nagaland.
NMDA said it has been resolved that any of its member who appoints any immigrant without verifying permanent residence certificate and proper address would be not only doing it at one’s own risk and responsibility but also be severely dealt under the amended constitution of the association.
Further, the condemning the crime of highest order, NMDA appealed to the Muslim council of Dimapur to put all efforts to apprehend the absconding culprit to wherever he had disappeared. It also urged Muslim council to put a strong check on the illegal immigrants at their own level to help in suppressing the ever increasing criminal activities in Dimapur.
Also, while advising all the communities residing in Dimapur to keep a watch on their community people with any kind of suspicious character, NMDA appealed to the NGOs and civil societies to not only condemn such crimes but also to verify from the courts of justice as to how many of the cases of all criminal activities by such people has been registered in the past.
“How many Under Trial Prisoners (UTPs) have been convicted? How many have been released on bail and why?” it asked.
The civil societies, the NMDA suggested should also put a strong directive to all the advocates and bar association and its members that they should not entertain any such cases for bailing out the criminals of this nature of crimes.