COCOMI junks KIM's stand on 'war' decision
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, June 09 2023:
Terming as baseless allegations levelled against it by the Kuki Inpi Mani-pur (KIM) on declaration of war against Chin -Kuki narco-terrorists, Coordinat-ing Committee of Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) said the war is necessary to save Manipuri society from on-slaught of narco-terrorism.
According to a statement of COCOMI, the war was declared in view of possible transformation of Manipur into a Narco-terrorist state jointly by armed Chin-Kuki terrorists coming from Myan-mar and Kuki militants un-der Suspension of Operation (So0), who created chaos in the society by killing unarmed innocent people, torching houses and looting properties.
Unlike KIM which works for the interest of the Kuki people alone, COCOMI is for entire communities of Manipur and has firm resolve to protect ter-ritorial integrity of Manipur.
Accordingly, KIM should not interfere into committee's dec-laration of war for self-defence against Chin- Kuki terrorists who are openly targeting in-nocent civilians, COCOMI said.
While maintaining that CO-COMI has been and will always stand against any community that attempts to distort the integrity of Manipur and con-siders such communities as en-emy, it said KIM must be fully aware that the present conflict emerged after Chin-Kuki ter-rorists coming from Myanmar overcame old Kuki through threats to realise their aspira-tion.
In view of KIM's apparent support to the terrorists, it can-not be denied that Chin-Kuki terrorists well inside the KIM, the COCOMI added.
Right from the moment the violence erupted till date, CO-COMI has been working tire-lessly to save innocent Kuki people trapped in the violence and shift them to safe locations.
Apart from this, the commit-tee never made any statement which would hurt sentiment of the Kuki people and would not do so in future too.
CO-COMI only declared people's views against the Chin-Kuki narco-terrorists who dragged innocent Kuki into battlefield after victimising them, COCOMI said while maintaining that the war was declared against Narco terrorist and Kuki terrorists who violated So0 ground rules.