Kohima: The Japukong Kaketshir Telongjem (Japukong Students Conference) has said that it was a big embarrassment and humiliation to see Naga farmers being chased away by armed Assam police personnel right in the presence of Nagaland police at Yajang village in Mokokchung district.
A statement from the Japukong Kaketshir Telongjem (Japukong Students Conference) JKM said:
“the Assam police has engaged its Nagaland counterparts in a psychological warfare and we see Nagaland police succumbing to that pressure every day.
The students body termed the scenario as a very painful incident that hurted the sentiments od\f the concerned and affected people.
The statement from the apex student body of Japukong range, under which Yajang village falls, comes against the backdrop of a series of incidents that have resulted in Assam police forcefully preventing villagers of Yajang from cultivating jhum in an area known as Akochisa pok.
The Japukong Kaketshir Telongjem (Japukong Students Conference) JKM pointed out that despite all necessary documentary evidence available with the villagers, the Assam police continues to harass and humiliate Naga farmers by preventing them from cultivating their land and chasing them away.
It cited all the valid and necessary legal document which has recorded the payment of Rs 70,000 by the Assam-based Kasojan Tea Company on October 18, 2006 to the joint village councils as compensation for damaging plantation and traditional agricultural land of Yajang village at Akochisa pok.
The JKM stated that the unabated and illegal act of Assam police has rendered the visit of the Parliamentary Secretary for Border Affairs of Nagaland and the local MLA on May 23 last to the disputed area, meaningless and a complete mockery.
Yajang B village is located in Longchem Tehsil of Mokokchung district in Nagaland, India. Longchem is nearest town to Yajang B village. (UNI)
