Kuki Inpi on burning down of houses
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Saikul, June 21 2013 :
The Kuki Inpi, Saikul Gamkai has expressed deep concern over the burning down of 23 houses of Thingjang village by the villagers of Khongbal Tangkhul on June 14 .
"The incident was a very unfortunate one which was a result of a dispute over a piece of land between the two villages," said the Kuki Inpi, Saikul Gamkhai.
"The burning down of houses/ huts and extermination of standing crops by spraying pesticides was an uncivilised act which has no place in this civilised world.
The Kuki Inpi, Saikul Gamkai, therefore urged both Thingjang ang Khongbal Tangkhul villages to reason together and solve the land dispute in good faith according to tribal customary laws for the sake of peace, communal harmony and good neighbourly relations," advised Thangkam Lupheng, president of Kuki Inpi, Saikul Gamkhai.
On June 14, headman of Thingjang village under Saikul in Senapati district of Manipur had alleged that a large number of armed people from the neighbouring village of Khongbal Tangkhul had torched around 20 houses and destroyed standing vegetable crops grown in the field measuring about 20 acre in the former village.
Tangkhohao Haokip, chief of the Thingjang village had told Newmai News Network that around 20 houses in the village were burned down by armed persons from the nieghbouring village who later destroyed the standing crops by smearing poisonous substance in the field.
He had claimed that the properties lost in the arson including the devastation of the crops worth around 20 lakh.
The village chief then urged the concerned authorities to look into the matter at the earliest and demanded that the Government pay proper compensation to the victims of the incident.
He also warned that launching of intense agitation might become the only choice of the Thingjing villagers if the Government fails to act on time.