WSYF, NUVC urge govt. to remove ‘war gates’

Western Sumi Youth Front (WSYF) and Naga United Village (NUV) have urged upon the state government to immediately remove “war gates” at Beisumpuikam village “at the earliest time possible.”
In a statement, the WSYF president K.K. Zhimomi and general secretary M.Chishi said it was not against Beisumpuikam village erecting “traditional village gates or welcome gates” but against the nature of gates with “bamboo spikes, trenches and bunkers dug around the gates”, calling it “highly questionable and provocative.” Asserting that other Naga tribes, particularly Sumis, passing through those gates were stopped and harassed by miscreants from Beisumpuikam village, the youth front said IRB personnel escorting people from Inavi village through Beisumpuikam was “a living proof in itself.”
Meanwhile, the WSYF also cautioned Zeliangrong Baudi (N) president K.Akang to desist from “sowing seeds of hatred and discord” among the Naga people.
“It is a known fact that he is a Rongmei from Manipur who does not possess even an iota of knowledge about the historical background of the Nagas,” they said and alleged that Akang arrived from Manipur recently and was settled at Samziuram village.
“The WSYF brand him as the mastermind of all communal tensions that has flared up of late between the western Sumis and Zeliangs,” the signatories said, and asked him to go back to where he belonged and “execute his evil design on his own people back home.”
The youth front also claimed that besides two culprits under police custody the third accused has “eluded arrest at Beisumpuikam and has likely gone back to Manipur posing to be Nagas.”
“They perpetrate criminal activities in Nagaland and escape to Manipur to take refuge,” WSYF said and adeed that the “in good time” it would furnish “physical and material proofs” to the responsible authorities in this regard.
“The WSYF asks K.Akang and the Beisumpuikam group to go back to Manipur and let the Naga people live in harmony as we have since time immemorial,” the signatories stated.
NUVC appeals: Meanwhile, making an appeal to the government to be sincere in its assurance to remove the “war gates” at Beisumpuikam village, the Naga United Village (NUVC), Intanki said any traditional and normal Naga village gates do not have bamboo spikes fixed to the gates and also with bunkers/defence lines like the “welcome gates” of Beisumpuikam village. “Picture published in local dailies is evident to it,” said NUVC chairman Sazo Zumvu and secretary C.Pili Pochury in a release.
Stating that fortunately people passing through Beisumpuikam village were being escorted by IRB personnel from one end to other end of Beisumpuikam village, the NUVC asked “but how long will the IRB remain in the area to protect the innocent people.”
Claiming that without IRB protection innocent villagers would not be able to pass through Beisumpuikam village, the NUVC urged government to remove the said gates in the interest of Naga people living in Naga United Village, Intanki.

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