Dimapur, May 30 (MExN): With ethnic clashes in Assam’s North Cachar Hills district continuing, the Naga Students’ Federation is planning to pay a visit to the troubled region by the middle of June next. The federation is expected to have meetings with different students’ organization based there, to bring to an end to the unabated violence that has plagued the area since the early part of this year.
Speaking to The Morung Express this evening, NSF president Mutsikhoyo Yhobu said the federation would be visiting the district next month. He however said schedules have not been finalized as yet. Nonetheless he expressed hope that the NSF delegation would be meeting representatives of the All Zeliangrong Students’ Union, All Zeme Students’ Union and the Dimasa Students’ Union. Yhobu said a formal invitation to these organizations has not been given out so far. “I hope the voice of the students’ would be heard after the visit to the NC Hills,” the NSF president said while hoping that the situation in NC Hills would improve.
Interestingly, Yhobu strongly alleged that the Indian paramilitary forces are “conniving” with the Dimasa militant groups with “ill motive” to create problems in not only the Zeme-inhabited areas in NC Hills but also in other Naga-inhabited areas. On being queried why the Indian paramilitary forces would connive with the Dimasa groups, the NSF president asserted that ‘since the Nagas are fighting for integration of all the Naga inhabited lands, the Indian paramilitary forces are trying to dislodge it’ with an “ill motive.” This way, he explained, the ‘Nagas would not realize the dream of an integrated Naga inhibited areas’.
