Appreciating the signing of “any bilateral ceasefire” between the Assam government and militant groups, the Kyong (Lotha) Hoho Monday however voiced concern on the rehabilitation packages for the landless and the proposed setting up of designated camps in Golaghat district, Assam.
In a joint statement, Kyong Hoho chairman Yansathung Jami and general secretary Michael Yanthan and Wokha District GBs’ Association president Mhonchan Tsopoe said executive council Kyong Hoho has resolved that in order to maintain the age old traditional friendship with the counterpart (Assam), no designated camps and rehabilitation for the landless Adivasi should be made in the soil of the Kyong Nagas.
The signatories termed unfortunate that Assam government filed a case with the government of Nagaland on land encroachment ignoring the age old traditional boundaries of the Nagas and the Ahoms.
The Kyong Hoho, the tribal apex body of Kyongs, “strongly felt” that contradicting the Supreme Court proceedings by accommodating the landless and setting up of designated camps within the “so called disputed belt” could invite “a serious complication between the two districts.”
Meanwhile, the Ralan Area Students’ Union (RASU) has asked the government why nothing has been initiated even after several memorandums were submitted.
Informing that “curfew” has been imposed in Ralan area starting January 23, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., the RASU president Aben Kikon, in a release, asked the public to keep strict vigil in their respective areas.
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