Kukis oppose Nagas demand
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Chandel, February 28 2014 : The Kuki Inpi, Manipur (KIM) and Kuki Organisation for Human Rights (KOHR) have apprised the Union Home minister today in a memorandum that constitution of 'a high level committee' (HLC) on 'Alternative Arangement' for Nagas in Manipur is sowing seeds of communal disharmony ushering in divide and rule policy amongst the people of Manipur and aiming to revive violence against innocent people.

KIM and KOHR said, "Much more than enough memoranda have been submitted to the President of India, the Prime Minister and Union Minister (Home) of India, candidly explaining the reason why any kind of settlement with the United Naga Council (UNC) must be preceded by the settlement of their criminal acts of 905 innocent loyal Kukis murdered, 306 loyal Kuki villages uprooted and 1,00,000 loyal Kukis made homeless" By the 'QUIT NOTICE' of the United Naga Council on October 22, 1993 with a warning of dire consequences that has resulted to the above irreparable killing of 105 innocent people, including pregnant women, babies, aged, invalid people, uprooting 360 villages and making 100,000 kuki people homeless/refugees in their own homeland.

What has been demanded is that the settlement should be made in a proper court of Law of the Country first, before any kind of talk, settlement etc are brought about with the UNC, the memorandum of the two Kuki bodies alleged.

The memorandum then said any political talk or settlement to one particular community in Manipur, and Hills in particularly is trampling the Rights of other ethnic groups living together peacefully with the Nagas.

If continued, would be taken as sowing the seed of war among the tribal people especially among the Kukis and Nagas.

And if amicable settlement has not been done prior to a possible Alternative Arrangement, the past damages could also be justified as instigated by the Government of India in collaboration with the State Government of that period of time when damages were done, the Kuki bodies added.

Any kind of arrangement politically or socially must be for all and should never be made for one exclusive ethnic group alone.

If this memorandum is completely ignored again, the Kukis will not remain silent anymore, and which will lead us to believe that the policy of the Government of India is to annihilate the loyal Kuki people.

Then, both the regional and the central government should bear full responsibility of the outcome.

"In the whole state of Manipur Meiteis are the first majority, Kukis are the second and while Nagas are only third major groups.

It is clearly understood that in the hills area Kukis are majority living together with their Naga brethren peacefully from the immemorial and any kind of domestic problem could be settled peacefully with the immediate effect by the Kuki chiefs and Naga Khullakpas.

All the hill areas of Manipur divided into six autonomous District Councils at are the indigenous homes for both Kukis and Nagas.

In all the six districts they live together, none of the district is inhabited by the single tribe," KIM and KOHR missive to the Union Home minister added.

The present Government must avoid reviving any kind of possible violence against the traditional tribal people's social harmonious life and centuries' peaceful coexistences.

Peace must be preserved at any cost.

The Government has enough means to do so if it has the will.

Violence should never be the rule of law in the country, KIM and KOHR demanded.

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