Kukis to rally against NSCN (IM)'s 'genocidal acts' on July 4
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Imphal, June 30 2014: Kuki people under the aegis of Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) will hold a peaceful protest rally on July 4 to air their grievances over the alleged lackadaisical attitude of the Government of India towards the plight of the Kukis who had "endured the criminal and genocidal acts" of NSCN-IM in the 1990s.According to a statement of KIM, the protest rally will be carried out in Imphal and several other places in the hill districts including Moreh, Tengnoupal, Kangpokpi, Saikul, Churachandpur, Jiribam/Phaitol, Mongneljang in Ukhrul district.

"The Government of India's glaring apathy and negligence towards the plight of the Kuki people who terribly suffered against terrorism of NSCN-IM during 1990-1997 has become an issue of retrospection whether justice exists or not," KIM said.

KIM lamented that the Government of India had remained a mute spectator when the NSCN-IM murdered 905 innocent Kukis, including children, women, invalids and the old aged; uprooted 360 villages to snatch way their lands; and displaced 1,00,000 people who are still unable to go back to their own villages.

KIM then said the Kuki people urged the Government of India to first settle the grievances or the plight of the Kuki people before any possible agreement is reached with the NSCN-IM.

"The crime of the NSCN-IM should be examined in a proper court of law in the country and the perpetrators of the crime must be punished to the satisfaction of all concerns.

Lest, whatever agreement proposed with the NSCN-IM will become the cause of violence and unrest, and the government shall be responsible," KIM warned.

"All the able bodied men, women, the young and old of the Kuki people are required to participate in the rally to show our solidarity in the demand for justice long denied to us.

The Kuki Inpi has appealed for cooperation and support from all civil society organisations of the Kuki people," it appealed.

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