Uneasy calm after SAYO ban on Mao community; Manipur bound truck set ablaze

An uneasy calm prevails at Vishuma under Khuzhama police station in Nagaland after miscreants set a Manipur bound truck on fire. It has been suspected that the incident is an ‘outcome of the ban’ imposed by the Southern Angami Public Organisation on members of Mao community of Manipur from entering the Southern Angami inhabited areas in Nagaland. The ‘ban’ was imposed with effect from December 15.

As per reports, individuals believed to be members of the Southern Angami Youth Organisation (SAYO) checked the documents of every Imphal-bound truck and detained a truck belonging to a member of the Mao community. Later, the suspected SAYO members set the truck on fire.

Meanwhile, an official team led by Mao MLA Losii Dikho accompanied by the top brass of the Manipur Police and Home commissioner took stock of the situation.

It may be mentioned, that the SAYO had asked the Mao communities living in the southern Angami jurisdiction to “withdraw” from the Soutnern Angami areas effective December 15.

SAYO’s decision is based on Southern Anagami Public Organisation (SAPO) blaming the Mao Council and the Manipur Government of “threatening the very peaceful co-existence and security of the region by harbouring and deploying the Manipur Arms security personals, issuing 144 Cr. PC and forcefully constructing illegal roads, houses, electrification…demolition of the rest house of the South Angami People and constructing an illegal alternative route to Dzukou…”