700 displaced Serou people return home
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, October 29 2023: Seven hundred people from Serou in Kakching district, who were among those forced to flee their homes following the ethnic violence on May 3, have now returned to their respective homes.

Those whose houses have not been burnt are staying in their houses while those who lost everything are staying in makeshift homes constructed at the respective land plots.

Addressing media persons in this regard at the relief camp opened at Ima Nungthong Lairembi Shanglen in Serou under the aegis of Social Welfare Club, Serou, Ima Nungthong Lairembi Relief Committee secretary Thongam Ingocha said that around 3400 people of Serou were forced to flee homes after the armed Kuki militants started destroying and burning down their houses.

Of the total displaced people, 700 of them have now returned.

He further informed that under the initiative of the local MLA K Ranjit, officials from 6 departments of the state government visited the people who have returned to their homes and conducted an assessment of the destroyed houses.

The people are now staying together in some of the houses which have not been burnt down and making all possible efforts to reconstruct destroyed houses too.

Ingocha further stated that none of the violence-hit people in Serou are government employees.

Therefore, the government should help the people affected by the ethnic violence, he appealed and urged the authority concerned to provide bus service in the area.

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