Dimapur, January 23 (MExN): The Kyong Hoho and the Wokha GBs Association today declared their opposition and objection to any “designated camps” and rehabilitation packages to Adivasi militants on the soil of the Kyong community.
The Kyong Hoho and the GBs issued a brief statement today noting the treaties between the Government of Assam and militant outfits as reported in The Telegraph January 18. The ‘hoho’ appreciates “signing of any bilateral ceasefire” between the government of Assam and militant groups as stated in a report of The Telegraph about nine ‘adivasi outfits’ ready to sign truce pacts. However, the Kyong apex organization has voiced concern at the rehabilitation packages for the landless and the proposed setting up of “designated camps” at Golaghat district.
“The executive council of the tribal apex body, Kyong Hoho of Wokha district, have 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 ‘hoho’ declared in its statement.
The organization also called “unfortunate” the government of Assam lodging a complaint with the government of Nagaland alleging “land encroachment ignoring the age old traditional boundaries of the Nagas and the Ahoms.” The ‘hoho’ has strongly objected the move saying that “contradicting the Supreme Court proceedings by accommodating the landless and setting up of designated camps within the so called disputed belt may invite a serious complication between the two districts.”
