'Nothing to do with ST demand'
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 07 2023:
The All Kongba Road United Club's Organisation (AKRUCO) has stated that the violence in Manipur has nothing to do with the judgment given by the High Court pertaining to the demand of Scheduled Tribe (ST) status by Meetei/Meitei in a memorandum submitted to Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
In the memorandum submitted through the Deputy Commissioner of Imphal East, AKRUCO said that the Union Home Minister depicting the High Court's judgment as the cause of violence in Manipur is unacceptable.
It was the War on Drugs campaign and eviction drives on Reserved and Protected Forest which angered a section of people and they unleashed a series of violence by taking advantage of the Tribal Solidarity March of May 3, the Organisation claimed and added that the rally however ended peacefully in Naga dominated districts.
The Organisation then urged the Central Government to withdraw the Suspension of Operation (SoO) pact with Kuki militant groups immediately and implement the National Register of Citizens in Manipur with 1951 as the base year.
It also appealed to the Government to replace the Assam Rifles posted in Manipur with Border Security Force (BSF) and State police.
Claiming that arson, looting, killing and onslaught on Meetei villages is the outcome of the decades old conspiracy between the people with vested interest and foreigner Kukis, the Organisation alleged that the details of the conspiracy and their fantasy of a Kuki Nation known as 'Zale'N-Gam is written in the book 'Zale'N-Gam The Kuki Nation' authored by PS Haokip, president of Kuki National Organisation (KNO) .