PLACE – MOREH, MANIPUR
DURATION: NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 2, 2006
Organized by Kuki Students Democratic Front

MOREH DECLARATION

We, the participants of the "Seminar on Kuki National Reconcialation" held during November 30 to December 2, 2006 at moreh do hereby make in solidarity the folowing declaration.

• That we the Kukis are, by our culture, tradition and history, a distinct ethnic nationality and indegenous people of Burma, who, since time immemorial, have been settling in compact in the upper Sagaing division, along the present day Indo-Burma Border region.
• That by virtue of our identily, we, in exercising our fundamental and collective rights have a veight to attain status quo with other ethnic nationalities of Burma i.e. attainment of the Kuki statehood.
• That we call upon system of government that be in Burma to immediately look into our demand for statehood and take prompt action to expedite solution preocess for the age-old Kuki political problem.
• That we strongly condemn the SPDC's marginalizing policy on the Kukis and therefore call upon this regime to –
  • Demolish the recently built up Burman villages that had been set up in the 90s in order to out-number, absorb and burmanize the indigenous Kuki.
  • Halt further construction of Tamanthi Hydel Project which up stream flood, in completion, would submerge 61 Kuki villages along with their invaluable thousand acres of paddy fields, arable land, forest and farm land where they grow staple and cash crops such as rice, maize, banana, orange, mustard, potato, bean, pea, pine apple, lemon, tea, coffee, sunflower, cabbage, cauliflower, water melon, bamboo, etc. and also cause destruction of the habitats of endangered species of both flora and fauna that would lead to their extinction and climatic change.
  • Stop being double standard, in the join Army Operation with India against the anti-India militants along 9 kms radius of the border (as per secretary level talks during September 13-15, 2006 at New Delhi), by shifting the militants's base camps of the said militants (who indiscriminately conduct human rights violation against the local Kukis) to places beyond agreed areas of operation because they still pose danger to the local Kukis.
  • Stop religious discrimination against ethnic Kukis.