UKLF condemns, appeals
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 21 2016:
United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) has condemned the attacks on family members of the front by the armed cadres of KNO/KNLF in Churachandpur and Chandel districts on April 13 .
Armed cadres of KNO/KNLF led by Thangsanglun Haokip alias Kolphe Kuki attacked women and children of Tilthang Khongsai who is currently serving as the secretary JMG/UKLF at his residence at M Songgel village, Churachandpur on April 13 in his absence, a statement issued by the UKLF said.
The statement alleged that the assailants verbally abused Tilthang Khongsai's wife Nengboi Khongsai and hit his younger brother Tilminlun on his head with a 9mm pistol butt.
He was later hospitalized owing to the injury.
The assailants also fired several rounds in the air which terrorized not just the family but the entire M Songgel village.
UKLF took the matter to the KNO leaders with the hope that attacks of similar nature would not occur in the future, it said.
However, on April 18, the house of UKLF cadre Jamkhosat Haokip alias Rocks of Tuileng village who is on leave was attacked by KNLF cadres in Chandel district, bordering Myanmar.
Armed with AK-47 assault rifles, the KNLF cadres in camouflage conducted search operations inside the house of Jamkhosat Haokip led by KNLF cadre Jamkhokai Haokip of Y Thingkangphai village, Chandel.
KNLF cadres fired several rounds and the whole village was gripped with fear, according to the statement.
Jamkhosat Haokip, luckily, escaped unharmed from the assualt.
Panic stricken villagers reported the matter to UKLF, it added.
The front has appealed to the Kuki National Workers (KNO) to let KNLF mend their ways in the interest of peace and re-unification of Kukis.
UKLF has termed such attacks as "The ways of gangsters".
True revolutionaries never indulge in such a cheap and foolhardy attacks on family members of revolutionary workers, the party said.
UKLF has questioned why the Assam Rifles have placed the armed cadres of KNLF at New Samtal village without consulting the local population and why they have not made KNLF cadres confined in one of the existing KNO camps in tandem with the SoO ground rules.
UKLF, in the statement, has further appealed to the authorities concerned to ensure that similar attacks on family members of the front does not happen in the future.