LAMKIA, July08:
While recalling the purpose for its formation, the Zo Re-unification Organisation ( ZoRO) today said that the organization is an affiliated to the United Nations People Forum on indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and was form with an aim to re-unify the politically scattered Zo people in the region. In a press conference held at Kuki Students’ Organization information office at Sumkong kaimun Tuibuing, Churachandpur, ZoRO said that Zo Indigenous Nation’s Rights have been deprived by the British colonial rural who ruled the Zo people by applying divide and rule policy.ZoRO Northern Speaker Simte said the organization Gen. headquarters will be celebrating World Indigenous Day on August 9,2014 at Lunglei district Aizawl, Mizoram under the aegies of Mizo Zillai Pawl (MZP) Lunglei and ZoRO Southern Zone, the celebration day will be grace by Romawia Minister Art & Culture, Government of Mizoram as the chief Guest.he said in presence of R. Thangmawia, President ZoRO Gen. headquarters, delegates from ZoRO Zones and division, intellectuals and leaders of Zo Indigenous people across the globe.Cultural troopes from Chittagong Hill Tracts, Saiha and Lawngtlai districts will show-case cultural dances on the occassion, he added.ZoRO said the Zomi have been striving for re-unification, and the people took up arms in 1966 and fight for their cause for a long period of twenty years (1866-1986) during which many people died, tortured, raped, and many houses were burnt down.These suffering could never reach the ears of the world and leaders of ZoRO this horrible incidents to leaders of human rights commission and in turn they requested the organisation to submits such suffering and atrocities to Amnesty International, the ZoRO said.The British understood that Zo people are one community and intended to put them under one administrative head, on the basis of Chin-Lushai Conference resolution held on January 28,1892, Fort William, Calcutta. When India and Pakistan got independence in 1947 and Burma in 1948, the ZoRO further added that British gover5nment left the Zo Indigenous people without fulfilling their decision and Zo people ling along Indo-Bangladesh- Myanmar frontier region are separated into three sovereign countries.
