The Naga people will not be bystanders to secessionist theatre on our ancestral soil.
Khanuithot-Khon has learned with grave concern that the Kangpokpi-based Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU), an organisation representing Kuki foreigner refugees whose presence on this land is historically permissive and not ancestral, has announced the observance of “Separation Day” on 3 May 2026. The event includes a coercive 12 hour total shutdown along National Highway 2, a central rally at Martyrs Cemetery in Phaijang, and a speaker lineup that shockingly features the sitting Deputy Chief Minister of Manipur.
Let us call this what it is. This is not a memorial service. This is not a legitimate political protest. This is an openly secessionist rally organised by a community of foreigner refugee origin, designed to normalise the carving up of Manipur along ethnic lines. It is being held on land that is not theirs. Sadar Hills is predominantly
Naga ancestral soil that has been progressively encroached upon by Kuki settlements. No community whose very presence is permissive and whose occupation is an encroachment can unilaterally declare it the staging ground for a campaign of ethnic partition.
The legal and constitutional position is beyond dispute. The Constitution of India recognises no right to unilateral separation by any community, still less by foreigner refugees who have been granted shelter and have now turned against their hosts. The demand for a separate Union Territory with legislature outside the existing state framework, enforced through shutdowns and territorial claims, is a frontal assault on the settled political order and the sovereignty of the Indian Republic. When a constitutional functionary, the Deputy Chief Minister of Manipur, lends her presence to such an event, she crosses the line from political engagement into active endorsement of an unconstitutional demand advanced by a non indigenous group. This raises serious questions about the constitutional propriety of her office and demands an explanation to the people of Manipur.
Khanuithot-Khon calls upon the United Naga Council (UNC), as the apex political body of the Naga people in Manipur, to take an unequivocal and uncompromising stand against this event. The UNC has already suspended all social and economic ties with the Kukis following the brutal TM Kasom killings. It must go further. It must declare publicly that this “Separation Day” has no legitimacy on Naga soil, and must coordinate with all Naga district apex bodies to ensure that Naga areas do not become a pillion to a political project driven by foreigner refugee communities with no ancestral stake in this land.
We further demand that the Government of Manipur, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the security forces deployed in the region:
1. Withdraw all implicit and explicit official sanction from this unconstitutional event, including the participation of any elected representative holding constitutional office.
2. Take immediate preventive measures to ensure that the NH 2 shutdown does not become a flashpoint for ethnic violence between Nagas, Kukis, and Meiteis.
3. Investigate the legal basis of a sitting Deputy Chief Minister participating in an event that openly advocates administrative and demographic separation from constitutionally recognised communities, an event organised by a group whose own legal status is that of foreigner refugees.
4. Reaffirm in unambiguous terms that no community, however organised or armed, and irrespective of its refugee or indigenous status, will be permitted to unilaterally redraw political boundaries or hold the region hostage to secessionist fantasies.
The Naga people have no quarrel with any community’s right to peaceful assembly and political expression. But we will not stand silent while a landless foreigner refugee narrative, which has already produced genocide projects against Tangkhul Naga villages, now masquerades as an indigenous rights movement to rewrite maps, demolish constitutional order, and drag the region deeper into the abyss. “Separation” is not a solution. It is a declaration of war on coexistence itself. The Kuki demand is not a legitimate political aspiration. It is a colonial claim by a non indigenous group over lands they have never owned, and we reject it absolutely.
We stand with truth. We stand with the Constitution. We stand with the Naga political movement and the right of every indigenous people to self-determination. And we stand against any attempt by foreigner refugees to carve a homeland from the ancestral territories of others. Anything less is an invitation to chaos, and we will oppose it with every legal and moral instrument at our disposal.
Issued by: Info & Publicity Cell
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