COCOMI gives it back to KIM
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 09 2023:
The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) has claimed that the charges levelled by Kuki Inpi against them is groundless.
In a statement signed by its media coordinator Somorendro Thokchom, COCOMI said that they are not any organisation like Kuki Inpi which stands only for one community.
Saying that COCOMI advocates peaceful coexistence and has been working to promote every community big or small, the Committee continued that they have never looked down on any community nor will they do so in future.
Further stating that COCOMI, however, will take whoever threatens the integrity of the State as the enemy of the society and will face them befittingly, the Committee maintained that it is the terrorists from Myanmar who threaten the old Kukis of Manipur causing unrest in Manipur to fulfil their aspiration.
COCOMI declared a war against narco-terrorism as terrorists from Myanmar have colluded with SoO signatory military groups to establish a narco-terrorist State in Manipur by carrying a series of violence, it said and claimed that these well armed militants don't spare even the civilians.
The Committee further stated that whatever they are doing is to protect Manipur.
The Kuki centric organisation don't have the right to question them for declaring the war against narco-terrorism especially when the terrorists are hostile towards civilians, COCOMI asserted.
It then asked why the Kuki Inpi is taking the side of 'terrorists' .
Saying that they have been assisting in evacuation of the innocent Kukis to safer locations, COCOMI said that they haven't said anything which will upset the innocent Kukis.
"Our war is against the narco-terrorists and SoO militant groups who defy the ground rules of the agreement," it asserted.