Give Meiteis access to their homes : COCOMI
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 20 2023: The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) has urged all concerned to allow displaced Meitei people access to their homes/villages by August 30 .

Security forces have been denying displaced Meitei people access to their houses burnt down by Kuki militants.

However, security forces have been acting as mute spectators when Kuki militants and their supporters burnt down and looted the abandoned Meitei houses every now and then, COCOMI alleged in a statement.

All these days, Meitei people have been silently bearing this atrocity and partisan attitude of the security forces with the hope that they (security forces) would one day protect their homes.

But now, this atrocity has crossed all limits of tolerance.

If the Meitei people are not given access to their homes by August 30, the displaced people would start moving to their homes/villages soon, starting from Torbung Bangla, it said.

The authorities concerned should bear responsibility for any untoward incident resulting thereof, COCOMI said.

Taking strong exception to the creation of buffer zones by Assam Rifles at different places including Phougakchao Ikhai, Sekmai, Pallel, Keithelmanbi and Litan, the COCOMI decried that Central paramilitary forces have been preventing free movement of not only civilians but also State forces by citing these buffer zones.

Law and order is a State subject and it should be handled by the State administration.

At the same time, buffer zones are generally created in contested areas between two neighbouring countries, it said.

Denial of free movement to State forces has evoked a serious question on the Centre-State relationship.

People now suspect a secret agenda of the Government of India, COCOMI continued.

While the Government of India has been watching silently to the acts of war unleashed by immigrant narco-terrorists upon its own citizens, paramilitary forces have been providing logistic and physical support, it alleged.

In their efforts to win favour from the Central Government and project themselves as Indian citizens, the Kukis even defiled the sacred National anthem by singing it in the most inappropriate manner together with AR troops.

The Kukis do not know how to sing the National Anthem nor do they have any idea about the established protocol of the National Flag because they are not Indian citizens, it alleged.

Legal action should be and would be initiated against all these incidents, it continued.

It was in 1951 that the administrative mechanism which used to regulate entry of non-local people was abolished.

As such, all Chin-Kuki people who came to Manipur after 1951 would be treated as outsiders, the COCOMI said.

By using tribal card, immigrants from Myanmar have been trying to distort the history of Manipur, apart from renaming different places and challenging the integrity of Manipur.

The Government of India should suspend the tribal reservation given to Kukis until the work of updating NRC is fully completed in Manipur, it added.

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