Kukis ready for protest against NSCN-IM's atrocities
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, July 03 2014:
The Kuki people under the aegis of the Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) are all set to carry put rallies in separate locations across Manipur tomorrow (July 4) to expressed their resentment over the alleged callous attitude of New Delhi towards the affected Kukis of the 1990s ethnic cauldron in Manipur.
KIM has alleged that in the 1990s, the Kukis were made to 'endure the criminal and genocidal acts' of NSCN-IM but the Government of India refused to address the plights of the affected Kuki people.
According to KIM, the protest rally will be carried out in Imphal and several other places in the hill districts including Moreh, Tengnoupal, Kangpokpi, Saikul, Churachandpur, Jiribam/Phaitol, Mongneljang in Ukhrul district and in Imphal.
"The Government of India's glaring apathy and negligence towards the plight of the Kukip eople who terribly suffered from the terrorism of NSCN-IM during 1990-1997 has become an issue of retrospection whether justice exists or not," KIM had stated.
During the course of NSCN-IM's genocide pogrom, the Government of India remained a mute spectator when the NSCN-IM murdered 905 innocent Kukis, including children, women, invalids and the old aged; uprooted 360 villages to snatch way their lands; and displaced 1,00,000 people who are still unable to go back to their own villages, KIM lamented.
"The crime of the NSCN-IM should be examined in a proper court of law in the country and the perpetrators of the crime must be punished to the satisfaction of all concerns.
Lest, whatever agreement proposed with the NSCN-IM will become the cause of violence and unrest, and the government shall be responsible," KIM had warned.
"All the able bodied men, women, the young and old of the Kuki people are required to participate in the rally to show our solidarity in the demand for justice long denied to us.
The Kuki Inpi has appealed for cooperation and support from all civil society organisations of the Kuki people," it had appealed.