August 3, 2003

Pu. Zoramthanga
The Chief Minister,

Government of Mizoram, Aizawl, India

Subject: An appeal to diffuse Chin (Zomi) purging campaign in Mizoram state
Hon’able Pu. Zoramthanga,

The collective leadership of Kuki International Forum (USA) commends your peace broker involvement among the northeast India undergrounds in usurping peace and tranquility in the region. The forum hails you as Modern Mizo Hero, when you shake the blood stained hands of NSCN (I-M) collective leadership; Thuingaleng Muivah and Isaac Swu at Bangkok, Thailand (your picture with them at Thailand, Bankok, [www.nscnonline.org]). We are proud of your unscrupulous leadership in the best interpretation of Mizo’s perennial philosophy of “Tlawmngaihna.”

However, the Forum unequivocally could not subscribe your Government’s inertness pertaining to the so called –“Foreigner Purging Drama” (Kanglaonline: Aizawl, July 27[NEPS]; Aizawl, August 2 [NEPS]. To remind one and for all, the infamous terms “Foreigner Purging,” “Foreigner Ouster,” “Eviction,” "Quit Notice,” and “Ethnic Cleansing,” are chiseled, harbored, orchestrated and mayhem by NSCN (I-M) collective leadership, to foster their utopian Nagalim Dream against the Kukis in the recent past (PS Haokip, Kukiforum.com, Rejoinder to NSCN-IM letter on Kuki-Naga Clashes, 1992-97).

The Forum raises its brow with suspicion whether today Mizo’s leadership and Mizo Student Federation such as Young Mizo Association (YMA) have been brain-washed by NSCN (I-M). Any civil society would prompts a quizzing thought as of the rational judgment behind as when the YMA takes law and order in its own hands discarding the norm of International Law of Human Rights Issue. By what common sense the YMA ransacked houses and buildings, which is one’s security and comfort from rain and sun? Will Mizoram Government in general and Mizo civil society in particular effort to forget that Mizoram is an aspiration as Peace Abode for all "Zofate/Zohnathlak" around the world irrespective of anyone residing in India, Burma and Bangladesh? Any intellectual person can smell the apartheid hysteria in the mute silence of Mizo Churches and other non-governmental organizations, leave alone Mizo Journalists Association who sympathized the tugging drama (MJA, Kanglaonline, Aizawl, July 28, [NESP]).

The Forum expresses its ugliest displeasure upon the rapist (July 17, minor girl rape incident) for tarnishing the age old and high traditional value of Women chastity among Chin-Kuki-Mizo progressive society. Let the culprit be dealt in the highest court of our traditional law by giving stringent punishment not the many innocent people. The Forum, therefore, makes an earnest appeal to the Chief Minister and the Mizoram State Government to come up with a lasting solution whereby “Zero Tolerance” of such crime be duly met, yet maintaining innocent and minor children, men and women be targeted unethically in Christian majority state like Mizoram.

The Forum wishes goodwill to its Unao Chin family, who in the unethical behest of one or two demeanors had suffered intolerable pain. We pray for their soon relief and relocation. Reckoning peace, tranquility and fraternal brotherhood among Unao Chin-Kuki-Mizo family!

Milund Neh Thang

Department of Information & Publicity
Kuki International Forum (USA)