KIM sets record straight on UNC's comment
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, July 05 2014 :
Reacting to United Naga Council (UNC)'s comment on the July 4 Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) sponsored rallies in various parts of Manipur including Imphal, KIM leaders today clarified that the Friday rallies were not against any community or organisation but the Kukis were expressing their resentments against denial of justice by the Government of India to the victims of the criminal and genocidal acts perpetrated by NSCN-IM in 1990s.A day before the rallies were held, UNC had stated that opening old wounds and creating fresh hostilities is not the wish of anyone, be it the Kukis or the Nagas.
Reacting to this comment of UNC during a press conference here, KIM president Thangkhosei said that the July 4 rallies were carried out against the crime on humanity.
Over the years, 61 memoranda have been submitted to the succeeding Prime Ministers of India, the chief ministers and other concerned authorities.
But till date no response has comeforth from the side of the Government of India.
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Thangkhosei said Kukis are loyal citizens of India and it is for this reason that Kukis are demanding the Government of India to deliver justice to the affected Kukis.
"For those sections who perceive that the Kukis are demanding compensation, we are sorry for them," the KIM president stated, adding that Kukis have never asked for compensation but the long due justice to the victims of the 1990s ethnic cleansing orchestrated by NSCN-IM against innocent Kuki people.
KIM speaker Ajang Khongsai said that 905 innocent Kukis, including children, women, invalids and the old aged were murdered; 360 villages were uprooted; and 1,00,000 Kukis who were displaced were still unable to go back to their own villages.
But the Government of India remains silent.
So, the observance of Black Day on September 13 every year by the Kukis or holding of rallies are acts of letting the Government of India to know that justice is yet to be delivered to the victims of the 1990s ethnic cleansing, Ajang Khongsai said, and drove home his point by citing the case of the 2009 Dr Kishan murder case whose court verdict was announced a few days ago.