CSOs urged to form talk team for Delhi meet
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, May 22 2025: Referring to report about the Home Ministry convening a meeting of valley-based CSOs in Delhi on May 23, All Kongba Road United Clubs' Organisation has appealed to the CSOs to form a negotiating team and chalk up roadmap that must not be compromised during meetings.

In a release, AKRUCO stressed the need for forming a 'negotiating team' by civil bodies which are at the forefront namely COCOMI, AMUCO, FOCS and Federation of Haomee along with like-minded women's organisations to work out strategies for resolving the conflict which has been afflicting the state for over two years.

It also urged the CSOs to deliberate on both short-term and long-term issues.

In the short term, the demands should be on removal of buffer zones, restoration of free movement, deployment of at least one company of security personnel in 24 to 25 locations frequently targeted by armed Chin-Kuki-Zo group, resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their original homes, and publication of the Commission of Inquiry report on Manipur violence without delay.

For the long term, it called for the issuance of an order to implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Manipur, identification of Chin-Kuki-Zo individuals residing in the country including Manipur under Indian Citizenship Act of 1955, verification of the citizenship status of KSO president PS Haokip, UPF president Thanglianpau Guite, and others under the Suspension of Operations (SoO), withdrawal of the SoO, and constitutional safeguards to ensure the territorial integrity of Manipur as existed on October 15, 1949 .

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