KIM elucidates 'separate administration' demand
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kpi, July 13 2023:
The Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) has finally spelt out what exactly is the Separate Administration' demanded by the Kukis after the wide-scale violence in the state.
'Separate Administration' has become the common voice after 10 Kuki legislators adopted a unanimous resolution for the same on May 12 in the wake of the violence that erupted on May 3 .
According to a statement issued by KIM secretary Khaikhohauh Gangte, the demand for separation is in the form of a 'Separate State' under Article 3 of the Indian Constitution.
Amid the prevailing situation arising out of the Machiavellian political dispensation designed and ordained by N Biren Singh unleashed on the Kukis, the KIM reaffirmed its collective political demand in the interest of the general public, the statement stated.
While informing that a crucial 'cabinet' meeting was held on July 12 with regard to the demand for 'Separate Administration', KIM said the state capital Imphal has been compartmentalized by the Meeteis by hounding off all the Kukis from Imphal valley after burning down their settlements and Churches.
The scale and intensity of the violence reached catastrophic proportions wherein even elected representatives were not spared.
The gruesome killings of the Kukis abetted by the state machineries and the Meetei militias, who are given carte blanche to annihilate the Kukis, evidently show that the ever-wid-ening differences between the Kukis and the Meeteis remain irreconcilable.
In the nefarious attempt to usurp Kukis' inalienable land, certain acts like Protected Forest and Reserved Forest have been forcibly imposed in the land owned by Kuki forefathers since time immemorial.
This clearly indicates that Kukis could not live and settle in the state capital.
The outright abrogation of century-old treaties signed between the Kukis and the Meeteis like the Moirang Treaty of 1859 and the Sanjenthong Treaty of 1873 coupled with the subsequent declaration of war on the Kuki people by the Meetei community is inimical to the principles of peaceful co-existence enshrined in the treaties, thus paving the way for total separation of the two communities, the Kukis and the Meeteis.
As a matter of fact, de-mographical/geographical separation has come into effect now.
It is, therefore, pertinent on the part of the Central government to expedite 'Separate Administration' in the form of the creation of a new state under Article 3 of the Indian Constitution for lasting peace in the region, the KIM said adding that the Kukis shall continue to strive together with sweat and blood to protect their rights and liberties until the political demand is realised in the form of a separate State.