On the occasion of the 119th anniversary of the Kuki-Chin-Lushai Conference, the umbrella organisation for Zo tribes across the region resolved here today to appeal to the Mizoram Legislative Assembly to take necessary steps for adoption of the UN Declaration by the Indian Parliament.
Zoro is an organisation that stands for re-unification of all Zo tribes scattered across the Northeast region, including Myanmar and Bangladesh. Since its formation in 1988 at Champhai in eastern Mizoram, Zoro has been struggling to bring the Zo tribes, divided by the British, under one single administrative unit.
''The Britishers convened the famous Kuki-Chin-Lushai Conference at Fort Williams in 1892 and decided to amalgamate the Kuki-Chin-Lushai country.
The process of bringing Zo people, who are now divided in three countries of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, under a single administrative unit is not realised till today,'' R Thangmawia, Zoro president, said in his speech today.
Zoro had been observing the anniversary of Kuki-Chin-Lushai Conference every year since the last two decades.
Zoro is optimistic that its objective can be achieved within the framework of Article 36 of UN Declaration 2007.
Addressing the function today, Thanggmawia said that the UN Declaration, adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13, 2007, agreed to give the right of nationhood to around 370 million unrecognised nationalities around the globe.
''The UN Declaration confers the rights to protection of social and cultural practices and protection of the wealth of their lands to the indigenous people,'' he said.
''The declaration also gives the indigenous people, separated by international and national boundaries, the right to have cultural and political integration,'' he added.
During the same occasion last year, Zoro had passed a resolution calling for taking concrete steps towards creation of single administrative unit for all Mizo tribes scattered in India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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