The Angami Youth Organization (AYO) has today urged the Maova Village Council to comply with Chakhroma Youth Organization’s (CYO) February 16 ultimatum as to avoid any “adverse consequences”.
In a press release issued by its media cell on February 21, the AYO expressed concern and stated that it is closely monitoring the developments in Chakhroma area after the assault of the Chakhroma leaders by Maova Kuki villagers who had intended to cause grievous harm to the leaders on February 13.
“It was only through God’s providence that the Chakhroma leaders could come out of the fracas alive,” it stated.
The organisation also reminded of past events referring to the 1995 incident where two innocent Angami brothers were robbed and brutally murdered by the Kukis of Tapho village in Manipur, which compelled the organisation to issue a Quit Notice to all the Kukis living in Angami jurisdiction.
“And when the Kuki leaders beseeched the leaders of the Chakhroma Public Organization (CPO) to protect them, it was the CPO leaders who requested the AYO to revoke the notice; and when the then Kuki leaders, on their own volition, made a Declaration on July 31, 1995 at Medziphema; we obliged the CPO leaders and the Quit Notice was kept in abeyance,” asserted the AYO.
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The organisation further pointed out that the Kuki leaders, in 1995, declared “we solemnly pledge to respect and uphold the decision of the land owners (Chakhroma Public Organization) and shall not go against the wishes of the Chakhroma Angamis, be it political or social, and in the event of any dispute or conflict within any aforesaid Kuki villages or in matter of land holding, the Angami Naga Customary Law shall prevail. Moreover, in due course of time, if situation demands, the land owners are at liberty to change the name of our village (s).”
However, the AYO expressed that the February 13 incident has alarmed them, compelling the organisation to remind the Maova villagers that “the Quit Notice of 1995 had merely been kept in abeyance, and can be restored/revived any time”.
Therefore, it urged the Maova Village Council to comply with Chakhroma Youth Organization’s ultimatum issued on February 16, to avoid any adverse consequences.
