Imphal, Aug 16: Zeliangrong Region has banned two student organisations with immediate effect.

The Liangmai Naga Katimai Ruangdi, LNKR (Liangmai Students Union) and the Rongmei Students Organisation, Manipur, RSOM have been warned of dire consequences by the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region in the event of the former carrying out their activities in future.

Regional Council Member (RCM) of the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region Kamson said that LNKR and RSOM have not been recognised by the Zeliangrong apex body, the Zeliangrong Union.

Kamson further stated that any Zeliangrong community which are not recognised by the Zeliangrong Union would not be allowed to exist in the Zeliangrong Region.

Meanwhile, the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region has asked the Rongmei Students Organisation, Manipur (RSOM) and the Zeliangrong Union (ZU) to surrender before the outfit at the earliest time possible.

Reasoning its decision, the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region leader Kamson said that ZU and RSOM had condemned the August 12 incident without knowing the truth and said that the report of two journalists and a law student who had been reportedly assaulted by the NSCN-K cadres in Tousem subdivision of Tamenglong district was exaggerated and wrong.

Kamson said that on August 12 at Zeiladjang village cadres of the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region stopped and interrogated Nitin Sethy of the Down to Earth journal; Aphian Gonmei of a Tamenglong based newspaper Dih Cham and Namdithu Pamei, a law student.

Kamson further stated that these three persons while responding to the interrogation did not co-ordinate to each other in their answers so the NSCN-K cadres gave a small slap to each of them to give a proper answers.

"Just a small slap to a person while interrogating and that also for giving a cooked up answers from three different persons with three different statements who are in the same team, is a negligible and small reaction from a revolutionary group", explained Kamson.

The NSCN-K leader while reasoning of his cadres' action of August 12, has said that with the ongoing tussle between the outfit which he belongs and that of the NSCN-IM, they are on the alert at every moment.

He added that these three persons had entered the village but since the village people failed to identify them, the NSCN-cadres had taken up pre-emptive measures by trying to verify their identities and thus, interrogated them.

Kamson said that their cadres did not beat or assault them as condemned by the RSOM and ZU but a small slap to find"out the truth.

The NSCN-K leader urged ZU and RSOM not to "simply bark" without knowing the truth and asked these organisations and other civil bodies not to condemn in future for such kind of incidents.

Kamson said that keeping in mind with the call of the Zeliangrong Union that Zeliangrong Region be a peace zone, the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region has been restraining itself from many things.

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