FOCS appeals against eviction of IDPs
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 31 2025: Appealing to the authorities concerned not to drive out IDPs who are currently taking shelter in Government quarters, FOCS has warned that any further attempt to evict the IDPs would be tantamount to inviting a massive protest movement.

Speaking to media persons at their office near Imphal War Cemetery this afternoon, FOCS president BM Yaima said that the IDPs who are currently taking shelter in the Government quarters of Langol Zone III and IV did not have the time for registration as they had to take shelter in Burma for a long time.

The IDPs occupied the vacant quarters with due permission of the then Chief Minister, he said.

As FOCS came across a Government notice directing the IDPs to vacate the quarters, a team went to Langol today and they found the IDPs living under a miserable situation.

The IDPs said that they were told by Government authorities to vacate the quarters by 9 am of June 1, 2025 .

Appealing to the authorities not to impose such diktats upon the IDPs who have nowhere to go, BM Yaima asserted that the Government must first arrange an alternative place for resettlement of the IDPs before driving them out from their current refuge.

He asked the Government whether the IDPs can live on trees and empty fields like birds and animals.

He also urged the Government to provide necessary assistance to all the IDPs living in different places towards their daily requirements, education of their children and medical treatment.

One Aheibam Ibemcha from Moreh Ward No 3 said that they fled into an army camp to save their lives as Kuki-Zo terrorists attacked their village on May 3, 2023."But the army advised us to leave their camp and save ourselves.

Subsequently, we ran to Burma and stayed there for two/three months.

Coming back from Burma (Myanmar), around 100 IDPs of 13 families took shelter in the vacant quarters of Langol with due permission of the then Chief Minister", Ibemcha said.

Saying that they are being asked to leave the quarters every now and then, she appealed to the Government to understand their woes and help them.

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