'Kukis tend to blindly follow order of their leaders'
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 27 2023:
Asserting that Meeteis in Moreh never did anything to hurt the sentiment of another community, Meetei residents of the border town, who follow Hinduism, said that people of Kuki community have a tendency to blindly follow any instruction from their leaders without giving any second thought and thinking of consequences.
Speaking to The People's Chronicle, some displaced Meeteis from Moreh town conveyed that Goura Sampradai Temple and Mandop in Moreh Ward No 8 is an important place for Meetei Hindus in the border town as the Mandop is the place where they carry out many events like wedding, Shradha and others.
However, people of Kuki community burned the structure along with most of the houses of Meetei community in Moreh in the evening of May 3 .
The displaced people said that Meetei people in Moreh never affronted any of the community living in the border town.
In fact, the community has always been at the receiving end of vandalism, torture and threat from Kuki community and their armed militants.
There had been multiple in -stances of armed Kuki militants killing and threatening Meeteis and burning houses of Meetei community in the past.
Recalling how the violence reached Moreh after Kuki mobs torched houses of Meetei community in the adjoining areas of Bishnupur and Churachandpur districts on May 3, the displaced people said that they could not comprehend how the Kukis reacted like that when they are the aggressor in Churachandpur district.
It was not a case of retaliation but an extension of what happened in Churachandpur, they observed.
In fact, people of Kuki community have a tendency to blindly execute any instruction that comes from any of their leaders without thinking of the consequences.
They have this animal instinct that forbids them to think of repercussions and humanely, the displaced people maintained.
Before May 3, despite the repeated atrocities of Kuki militants, Moreh was a peaceful town with people from all communities living peacefully and sorting out any issue through joint meetings.
But those days are gone now as Kuki people have displayed their hegemony in the border town, they said and appealed to the government authorities to bring to justice to those involved and responsible for the mayhem in the border town.