Article by 'Commander S Khuman' incomprehensible : 5 UGs
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, March 29 2025: The proscribed KCP, KYKL, PREPAK, PREPAK-Pro, and Koireng-led UNLF expressed deep concern over a social media post with the caption 'Treacherous activities of General Anthony Simray, Army Chief of NSCN/IM,' purported to have been written by one 'Commander S Khuman' Min Tha Myanmar, and termed the article uploaded on March 12 as ill-motivated propaganda spread by enemies.

In a joint statement, the five organisations (KCP, KYKL, PREPAK, PREPAK-Pro, and Koireng-led UNLF) said that they noticed the article a couple of days back.

The post carries a long story, of which the central figure is General Anthony Shimray, the Army Chief of NSCN (IM) .

The story, however, was completely incomprehensible as the five organisations are not privy to the inside information of a centralised organisation like the NSCN (IM), nor have they had organisational or operational relationships with the organisation.

Nevertheless, the story alludes a lot about KCP, KYKL, PREPAK, PREPAK-Pro, and Koireng-led UNLF, thus compelling the issuance of a collective clarification, the joint statement said.

According to the joint statement, the post carried a vituperative commentary on the activities of General Shimray.

It seems, at first glance, to be a smear campaign against him initiated by a Meitei revolutionary commander operating in the India-Myanmar border area.

Khuman is the name of one of the largest 'Yeks' of the Meitei community.

Meiteis are composed of 7 Yeks, and a Yek is broadly similar to an exogamous phratry, a cluster of clans or gens.

Many Meiteis, though not all, use the name of their Yeks as a second or third name along with the clan/gen name.

If counted, one may come across thousands of Khumans among the Meitei full names.

Any reader of the post, having some primary idea about the naming customs and usages of the Meiteis, will automatically presume that it was written by a Meitei.

The purpose of this writeup is to insinuate that Meitei revolutionary groups are deadly angry with General Shimray and his 'wrongdoings' that harm Meitei and Naga revolutionary causes.

But the foundational truth is that there is no S Khuman in any of the five organisations.

Moreover, the five organisations have no capacity to write such allegations as none of the organisations have the slightest knowledge about NSCN (IM) and its activities.

Only intelligence units of enemy countries or insiders of NSCN (IM) will have the knowledge to write or concoct such stories.

In addition to this, there is nothing to gain by fabricating such allegations, the joint statement said, adding that the article is nothing more than a mischievous machination designed to drive a wedge between the Naga and Meitei communities to serve colonial interests, possibly taking a cue from Chanakyaniti.

It is alleged in the last sentence of para No 3 of the article that 'behind the screen, he (General Shimray) has been working with the Indian Army and its ally PDF against Naga and Meitei fighters' .

The present ground reality in the Manipur-Myanmar border areas is that Meitei insurgent groups have been fighting against Indian security forces and their stooge, KNA-B, for more than one year.

In this fight, Meitei insurgent groups have not felt the slimmest suspicion that General Shimray or any of his cadres have been working with Indian forces against Meitei insurgent groups, the joint statement continued.

In para 6 of the post, the allegation is purely a figment of imagination and a bunch of lies.

It is written that 'he (Gen Shimray) and his boys had been facilitating our (S Khuman and other Meitei militants) return to the valley on a payment basis.

Now, with the border sealed off and unable to return to the Myanmar base due to constant raids, some Meitei groups had to sign a ceasefire' .

This is also factually wrong.

We did not take part in the two-year-long Kuki-Meitei clash, and no group or faction signed a ceasefire after the outbreak of the Kuki-Meitei clash.

The claim is, at most, imaginable.

In the hill areas of Manipur, our physical movement can be done by ourselves independently; it may be risky but doable.

No facilitators are required.

This para seems to be a script drafted by Indian intelligence people who engineered the ongoing Kuki-Meitei clash, the joint statement added.

Continuing the collective clarification, the five organisations said that in para 7 of the write-up, it is alleged that 'Our investigation has also confirmed that Anthony & Indian Army have been helping the PDF/KNA(B) to attack our camps in Myanmar to force us too to come to ceasefire,....' .

Here, the word 'our camps' signifies camps of Meitei-dominated groups to which S Khuman belongs, as the post is supposed to have been written by S Khuman.

This is yet another distortion of truth.

We are fighting against a combined force of Indian security forces and its proxy forces, KNF(B), along the Manipur-Myanmar border; we even have circumstantial evidence of some disguised Kuki military advisors from the Indian security forces taking part in attacks directly beyond the border.

But we do not have any evidence, however remote and indirect, to arouse our suspicion against NSCN (IM) people.

The elements of the social media post indicate a desperate attempt by the Indian Army to undermine NSCN's recent series of revelations to the public about its unholy alliance with Kuki militants in the ongoing state-engineered ethnic strife in Manipur by targeting NSCN (IM)'s Anthony Shimray.

Beyond this, it is a sinister design by the Indian Army to sow communal hatred among the indigenous peoples of Manipur, further fuelling the ongoing conflict to push Manipur into complete ethnic turmoil, all in service of their colonial interests.

Therefore, the five revolutionary organisations of Manipur/Kangleipak, namely KCP, KYKL, PREPAK, PREPAK-Pro, and Koireng-led UNLF, appeal to fellow indigenous peoples not to fall for such ill-motivated propaganda spread by enemies.

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