IDPs urge Govt to let them go back home
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 04 2025: Saying that their sufferings have crossed all limits, many IDPs have urged the Government to create secure and conducive conditions so that they can go back to their homes.

Expressing deep anguish against the failure of the Government to create such a secure and conducive atmosphere even after imposing President's Rule, the Relief Camp Committee, Sajiwa staged a protest demonstration at Sajiwa Relief Camp today.

Speaking to media persons, one Takhellambam Ibeyaima from Ikou Sadu Koireng said that the campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide launched by Kuki-Zo on May 3, 2023 has completed two years.

"For the past two years, we have been living in relief camps in wretched conditions and as such our sufferings have crossed all limits", she said.

With the BJP Government unable to contain the violence even after several months, the people of Manipur, particularly the IDPs, welcomed the much detested President's Rule with open arms with the hope that direct Central intervention would be able to restore peace and normalcy in the State.

Ibeyaima said.

In fact the IDPs had high hopes during the initial days of President's Rule that they would be able to go back home but now the IDPs have lost all their hopes, she said.

Asking how long they should languish in the relief camps, Ibeyaima lamented that nobody can feel their pain and suffering.

"Release us from the relief camps.

Even if we must face death, let us die at our homes", she said.

For the past two years, the IDPs have been lodged in cramped rooms and fed by the Government as if they are poultry birds, Ibeyaima said.

But whatever little provided by the Govt cannot meet even the basic requirements and the IDPs are struggling really hard to send their children to schools, she said.

"At home, we can cultivate crops, vegetables, collect firewood from nearby hills and work for daily wages but here at relief camps, we cannot find any job", she continued.

Without any job, the IDPs have been reduced to the status of beggars, she said.

"We are unarmed but Kukis are heavily armed.

But death at relief camps and death at the hands of Kukis mean the same to us.

We are prepared to go back home and fight with the Kukis with bare arms.

We feel our lives are worthless", she added.

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