KIM condemns killing
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kangpokpi, November 20 2023:
Vehemently condemning the repeated dastardly attack on the Kuki-Zo people and alleged encroachment into Kuki-Zo land, Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) appealed to all concerned to look into the matter with all seriousness without which such acts could provoke the Kuki-Zo community to defend their land and rights with all might.
The apex body of the Kuki tribes also said that the brutal killing of two innocent Kuki-Zo in the second ambush by Meetei armed groups must serve as a wake-up call to the Government of India to genuinely look into the fate of the Kuki-Zo people under the state government.
KIM information and publicity secretary Janghaolun Haokip termed as extremely disquieting that in spite of the government s earnest call for peace, Kuki-Zo people continue to be targeted, including the latest on Monday.
He alleged that the relentless attacks and barbaric killings of the Kuki-Zo people plainly display the hatred and unrelenting attitude of the Meeteis in this pre-planned and state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of the Kuki-Zo people that has claimed the lives of over 152 Kuki-Zo people, with 300-plus villages destroyed, more than 7000 houses torched and over 40,000 Kuki-Zo people displaced from their homes and hearth.
Janghaolun continued that it is deeply distressing that the state of the Kuki-Zo remain unchanged even after six months of ethnic conflict, despite repeated appeals to the central government for the safety and security of the Kuki-Zo people, while adding that various Kuki-Zo civil society organisations have time and again expressed the partisan nature of the state government and its involvement in orchestrating and prolonging the conflict.
Janghaolun also emphasised that similarly, it is pertinent for the central government to recognise that the pillars of democracy in Manipur have all been compromised to the core.
The agonising death of the two Kuki-Zo individuals must serve as a wake-up call to the Government of India to genuinely look into the fate of the Kuki-Zo people under the state government," he asserted.
Janghaolun further claimed that the central government must act against the barbarity of the state-sponsored ethnic cleansing by the Meeteis against our people.