IMPHAL, June 15: While reaffirming the `Principle of Neutrality`™ adopted in the house of the Aimol Tribe Union, Manipur on July 29, 2001 at its head office at Aimol Tampak, Pallel in Chandel district, the Aimol Tribe Union termed the declaration made by S Munthuireng published in a local daily on April 13 under the headline `Oneness in Christ`™ which read the Aimol Tribe as Aimol Nagas as baseless.
A joint statement signed by village chiefs and authorities of several Aimol Villages termed the declaration as nothing but an anti-Aimol element and warned leaders and individuals not to repeat such act of anti-community and dictatorship role in future.
It also demanded Munthuireng to apologize to the people through the media for his unwarranted declaration and resign from the post of president of ATUM.
The statement said that the Aimol Tribe Union had adopted certain resolutions including policy of separate entity which states that the nomenclature of the Aimol community recognized under Indian Constitution as Aimol shall be Aimol and no concoction, suffix and prefix shall be allowed to insert to the title `Aimol`™.
It had also resolved to stick to the policy of non-align which states that the Aimol shall stand alone as Aimol in any event and that the Aimol (leader, president and any individual) shall not enter any agreement with any organization, group or community due to geographic location of the Aimol community, it said.