Morung Express News
October 24
MON: Members of the Kai-he clan from Wangti and Chingkhao Chingnyu village in Mon district have come out in open protest against the move of the State government to set up an NAP camp headquarter at Aboi town. “We are totally taken aback to know that the Nagaland Armed Police (NAP) camp will be established in our ancestral site without any official intimation or consent from our clan”, remarked Y. Popa and Yanpho Kai-he respectively from the two village while disclosing this information.
The clan members pointed out that the proposed site at Aboi town in Mon district belonged to the Kai-he clan since time immemorial and claimed that the land in question was under the collective ownership of the clan which extends to present Aboi town. Maintaining that the present Aboi town as part and parcel of the clan, the leaders pointed out that the present township was forcefully established without the consent of land owners during 1955 by the Indian army at ‘gun point’.
“No compensation as such was given till now to the clan in lieu of the land. Now, the establishment of the NAP camp without the knowledge of our clan elders will not be tolerated”, the press communiqué stated.
Sending a stern warning that forceful establishment and annexation would aount to violation of Konyak customary law and their basic human rights, the clan members strongly condemned the individual, groups, families or village for instigating the government to establish the NAP camp on the land which legitimately belonged to the Kai-he clan.
