IDPs allege Govt inaction, demand return to homes
Source: Chronicle News Service

Bishnupur, November 24 2024: Maintaining that they no longer desire to stay in pre-fabricated houses constructed by the government, internally displaced persons (IDPs) have appealed to authorities concerned to facilitate return to their respective homes and live peacefully.

Speaking on the sidelines of a protest demonstration, one Mema, a displaced resident of Churachandpur Thengra Leirak currently taking shelter at the KP College Relief Camp, expressed deep disappointment over the government s alleged failure to act when six people - three Women and three children - were brutally killed after abduction.

She criticised the government's swift response in arresting protesters who could no longer bear the silence and resorted to destroying and torching houses of MLAs.

In contrast, she said, the government had shown no such urgency when' innocent lives were lost, Mema further lamented that the chief minister, the Prime Minister and the Home Minister have failed to address the crisis from the outset.

She decried the conditions under which IDPs like herself are confined in relief camps, comparing it to being treated like animals in a farm.

The Meetei people are living as refugees in their own homeland, which is very unfortunate, she said.

She also accused chief minister N Biren, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of portraying the Meeteis as "animals" when a video of two women being paraded naked went viral, yet remaining silent when Kuki militants abducted and killed three Meetei women and three children.

She opined that such contradictory actions indicate sinister scheme of the central and state governments to wipe out" the Meetei people.

Mema also stated that the IDPs no longer wish to live in the temporary shelters provided by the state government, but are yearning toxeturn and live peacefully in their own homes.

She called for the security forces deployed in the state to priorities protecting the lives and properties of the people of Manipur, rather than securing the homes of MLAs.

The IDPs, who participated in the protest also chanted slogans such as "We do not want to live in fabricated houses", "Abrogate the SoO agreement with the Kuki-Zo narco-terrorists immediately", and "Arrest the Kuki terrorists involved in the Jiri incident and take stern action against them" .

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