KIM strikes tough posture against Meeteis
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, July 06 2023:
Apart from declaring the Meetei people as warring enemy of the Kukis, Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) said that no Kuki individual shall re-establish any alliance or bonds whatsoever under any circumstances with the Meetei community as the latter has declared war on the Kukis.
In a statement, KIM recalled that Kuki chiefs and Meetei kings had throughout the ages lived together with mutual respect and understanding.
In their zeal for mutual understanding vis-k-vis land and all other issues, Kuki chiefs (Khongjai) and the Meetei kings signed treaties and co-existed peacefully.
As a sequel, Kuki forefathers formulated road map' to be observed by all the Kukis ever since the Kuki Inpi Manipur was revived with the three guiding principles based on non-communal, peaceful co-existence with other communities and justice for all.
However, the Kukis are disillusions \ at the outright abrogation of Kuki forefathers' long-cherished bond with the Meiteis like the Moirang Treaty (1859) and Sanjenthong Treaty (1873) at the COCOMI's Public Convention on June 7, 2023, the KIM said adding that no Kuki individual shall re-establish any alliance or bonds with Meeteis as they have declared war against the Kukis.
The KIM also issued certain decrees to be strictly adhered to by all the Kuki people as arrived during a public convention held at KIC Complex Tuibong, Churachandpur on July 3 .
One of the decrees said that the Kukis shall under all circumstances resist and fight tooth and nail against any attack and every Kuki must take part in the fight in their endowed capacities.
It also said that every man must be prepared, put on the armour and get hold of the weaponry for the defence of Kuki ancestral land and nation.
Kukis shall collectively strive together until sep arate administration is realized so as to have self government and administration under the Constitution of India, another decree said.
It also mentioned that all the Kuki people must defend their ancestral land tooth and nail by not abandoning hills and villages in whatever ways and capacities they can and each of the villages have been dispatched symbolic war sign Thingkho-Malcha.
Strict order is being issued to those who, in their bid to survive, escaped to other states in the country by deserting their houses/ villages to return without any further delay, and no chiefs shall leave or desert their respective villages.
Whosoever violates the decrees shall be construed as antagonistic and defiant to the national orders and shall be deemed to have been self-alienated from the Kuki nation, the KIM said.