IMPHAL, June 28: The Foothills Naga Coordination Committee (FNCC) has strongly condemned the recent attack on a Ukhrul-bound Winger vehicle on June 26, 2025, at Mongkot Chepu Kuki village. The incident, in which a Naga woman and the vehicle’s driver were brutally assaulted, has been described by the FNCC as “an act of war” and “a direct assault on the dignity, safety, and integrity of the Naga people.”
In a press release issued on June 27, the FNCC declared the attack to be part of a wider, sustained campaign of aggression against Nagas. “This is no longer an isolated incident. It is part of a sustained campaign of aggression against Nagas,” the statement reads, adding that these actions are not random but coordinated, deliberate, and carried out with impunity by Kuki refugees emboldened by silence and inaction.
The FNCC listed several villages—Longsai, Kaiphundeijang, Nungnang, Thangbuk, Leimanei, Tingpui, Satang, Yaingangpokpi, Lungwiram, Kazanga, Konsakhul, Tumoyon Khullen—that have allegedly been subjected to unprovoked assaults by Kuki groups. The committee said these are not sporadic clashes but strategic acts of hostility aimed at instilling fear and establishing illegitimate control over Naga territories.
The statement further accused Kuki refugees of relentless land grabbing across Naga areas, calling it part of a larger, dangerous, and premeditated expansionist agenda. The FNCC claimed such actions threaten the ancestral land, identity, and existence of the Naga people, describing the situation as an open declaration of territorial encroachment and ethnic clash.
Issuing a stark warning, the FNCC said, “if the Kuki refugees do not immediately cease their hostilities and expansionist activities, the consequences will be grave and irreversible. Bloodshed is no longer an option, it is imminent. The Nagas will not be passive spectators to our own dispossession and destruction. We will respond with force, and we will hold nothing back in defending our land, our people, and our future.”
“Any fallout from the impending retaliation will lie solely and squarely on the shoulders of the Kuki aggressors. The burden of responsibility for any further escalation will not be shared, it will be theirs alone,” the statement concluded.
