The Nagaland Indigenous People’s Forum (NIPF) has strongly urged the state government to strictly implement the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the whole of Nagaland to safeguard and protect the rights of innocent indigenous people.
Identity, rights, and preservation being its motto, the forum in a statement reiterated to protect, preserve and promote the rights, property, identity, customs, culture and tradition of the indigenous people of Nagaland.
Further, NIPF strongly condemned the murder attempts of Naga people by non-Nagas— the attempted murder of Yetovi Zhimomi at Zukihe village in Niuland district on March 9 by Naveen Kumar Singh and Papu Dharam Singh and of Kumughato by Amir Hussain and Azarad Ali at Pimla village on March 18.
Claiming that this was not the first or second instance where non-locals had committed such heinous and unforgivable crimes on Naga people, the forum asserted that the time had come for the Nagas to act before Nagaland became another Tripura.
It also requested law enforcement agencies to award befitting punishment and warned any individual or group not to bail out the accused. Demanding that such criminals should not be given any space in Nagaland, the NIPF pointed out that the indigenous people were threatened when such criminals were being allowed to live in the land.