Kuki leaders apprise problems to Union Home Minister
Source: The Sangai Express
Kangpokpi, February 14 2015 :
Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) and other Kuki civil society organizations met the Union Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh yesterday at Raj Bhavan, at the State capital and apprised him of the grievances and problems faced by the Kukis.
The Kuki civil society delegates included Thangkhosei Haokip, president KIM; Khaimang Chongloi, gen secy, KIM; Dr T Lunkim, chairman, Kuki Organization for Human Rights and Paotinthang Lupheng, president, KSO-Ghqs.
The Kuki delegates also submitted a memorandum to the Union Home Minister in the presence of Kiren Rejiju, Minister of State (Home) and Shambhu Singh, Joint Secy, Home (NE in-charge) .
In the memorandum, the Kuki bodies placed the alleged long unattended but very important case of genocide and crimes of NSCN-IM while seeking amicable settlement in the proper court in the country.
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According to the memorandum, the NSCN-IM murdered 905 innocent Kukis including women (some pregnant), children, aged and invalid while uprooting 360 villages and seizing their land besides rendering 100,000 peoples refugees in their own land.
The matter has been submitted to the five outgoing Prime Ministers and now to the Home Minister under the sixth Prime Minister, added the memorandum.
It further added that the whole matters is that this criminal acts must be settled in a proper Court in the country for justice and peace before any kind of settlement could be brought with NSCN-IM which is the culprit fighting against the Indian Government.
The Kuki Inpi (traditional Govt) would never accept some kind of agreement or solution before settlement of the crimes committed by NSCN-IM, the memo said.