KUKI ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TRUST (KOHUR)
A Member of UN Special Consultative Status Since 2016
[Registered under the Indian Regulation Act, 1908. Regd. No.963 (V), 08, May, 2009]
PRESS RELEASE
May 05, 2026
KOHUR Rejoinder On the United Naga Council’s “Clarion Call” of 3 May 2026
The Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust (KOHUR) has carefully studied the communication issued by the United Naga Council (UNC) on 3rd May 2026, addressed to “All Tribe Hohos of Nagaland.” We are constrained to respond with firmness and with restraint to a document that misrepresents geography, distorts the recent past, and deploys language that mirrors, almost word for word, the very rhetoric that has endangered the Kuki-Zo people since 3 May 2023.
I. On the fiction of “Southern Nagalim”
The UNC’s reference to “Southern Nagalim” is a political claim, not a settled geographical fact. The territories named in its release — Chandel, Tengnoupal, parts of Ukhrul, Tamenglong, and the undivided Senapati district — are home to multiple indigenous peoples, including the Kuki-Zo, whose ancestral villages, customary land tenure, oral genealogies, and place names long predate the cartographic ambitions of any post-colonial political project. To rename Kuki-Zo ancestral homelands as “Southern Nagalim” is not to describe reality; it is to manufacture a claim. The Kuki-Zo have farmed, prayed, and buried their dead upon this soil for centuries. We respectfully but unequivocally reject this nomenclature.
II. The myth of the unqualified neutrality
The UNC asserts that, from the onset of the May 2023 violence, the Nagas of Nagaland and also some Naga of Manipur especially the Naga of Senapati, Chandel and Tengnoupal district adopted “a position of neutrality and extended humanitarian help without condition or prejudice.” We honour, by name and in gratitude, every Naga family, pastor, and village that genuinely sheltered displaced Kuki-Zo civilians during those terrible months. Such acts were real, and we will not allow them to be forgotten.
But the UNC’s totalising claim does not survive contact with the documented record. Roads were blocked. Movements were impeded. In multiple instances, displaced Kuki-Zo were denied safe transit through territories the UNC today claims as exclusively Naga. To recast this complicated record as uniform charity is to rewrite a history that many of our families lived through, and many continue to grieve.
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