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WMC rubbishes ITLF claim
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 23 2023:
The World Meetei Council (WMC) has rejected the ITLF's statement that "...Meetei's demand for ST status was the cause (of the present crisis)" as senseless.
A statement issued by the WMC asked how can the Kuki-Chin people while opposing Meetei's demand for inclusion in the list of Scheduled Tribes justify their violent attacks on the Meetei people with guns, burning down of houses and killing of innocent Meetei people.
It was this unprovoked aggression of the Chin-Kuki people which ignited the violent clash that has made the innocent people suffer extreme miseries on both sides.
Indeed, the Kuki-Chin people are responsible for this mayhem, the WMC asserted.
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"Meetei's demand for inclusion in the list of Scheduled Tribes is a question of our survival.
WMC would like to state that our survival cannot be negotiated in any manner", it said.
The immigrants should be grateful to the indigenous people��Meetei and Naga, for accepting them.
Indeed, they have been enjoying all the privileges throughout and "we did not oppose it" .
"But how can we accept when the immigrants oppose the indigenous Meetei people's rights.
This is not acceptable at any cost", it asserted.
The WMC then urged the Government of India to stop the violence which has made lives in Manipur miserable.
It can be done by containing, controlling and disarming the Kuki-Chin militants who have their camps near Assam Rifles and near the Leimakhong Army Headquarters.
This will be the breaking point because the Meetei people are only protecting themselves by retaliating to the attacks by the Kuki-Chin militants.
Once the Kuki-Chins stop attacking the Meetei, normalcy will return, it further said.
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