Ploy to settle Myanmarese: AMUCO
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 17 2023:
Reacting to the declaration made by the so-called Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) that they would set up self-government in Kuki-Zo dominated areas regardless of whether the Government of India recognises it or not, the All Manipur United Clubs' Organisation (AMUCO) has asserted that the same declaration is a shrewd step towards facilitating settlement of Kuki-Zo people who are fleeing from Myanmar into India on account of the ongoing war between Myanmar rebels and the Myanmar junta.
The declaration to establish self-rule has many objectives and one of them is sustaining the unrest.
By sustaining the unrest, the ITLF is hoping to confine the Indian military in the peripheral areas of the valley and disable the State forces from discharging their duties fally so that they can recuperate the expenditures they incurred in their widespread aggression against Meitei community by planting poppy on hill ranges.
Another objective is facilitating influx of foreigners from Myanmar who are ethnically related to them (Kuki-Zo), AMUCO said in a statement.
The ITLF has been planning to use the immigrants from Myanmar in poppy plantations, enrol them in their military offensive against the Meitei community and set up new villages for and with the help of these illegal immigrants, it said.
AMUCO then appealed to all the people to work collectively and see that the ITLF never achieves its hidden agendas.
AMUCO has been fighting against all challenges to the territorial and administrative integrity of Manipur.
AMUCO and the people of Manipur will never accept the ITLF's declaration to set up any form of separate administration, it conveyed.
Every section of people would certainly question whether there is any meaning to the presence of an elected Government if it cannot take up any punitive action against the ITLF's unlawful and unconstitutional declaration, it said.
At the same time, people need to study whether the ITLF made their declaration after reaching an understanding with the Government of India behind the door.
There must be a hidden agenda behind all the actions and inaction of the Government of India regarding the Manipur crisis.
It is for this very reason that the Government of India has been allowing the crisis to go on for more than six months, AMUCO said.
The Central Government and the State Government must find out who are those people leading the so-called ITLF and take up befitting punitive action against them, it demanded.
The people of Manipur and India must be wary of the Kuki-Zo people who are demanding separate administration by wearing the cloak of indigenous tribes.
The unrest besieging all the communities of Manipur for the past many months is a direct outcome of the Kuki-Zo people's violent push to realise their dream of separate administration, AMUCO asserted.
The audacious claim of Kuki-Zo being indigenous tribes of Manipur and their demand for an exclusive separate administration imply that they have little respect for all other communities of Manipur, it averred.
After successfully driving out Nagas and Meiteis from areas dominated by them, Kuki-Zo now see other smaller communities as totally insignificant.
By producing and circulating maps which claim larger portions of the hill areas of Manipur as their land, Kuki-Zo people have been challenging all the indigenous hill tribes, AMUCO continued.
The open declaration of the so-called ITLF to set up self-rule without waiting for the Government of India's recognition is a serious threat to the integrity of both India and Manipur.
As such, both the Government of India and the State Government ought to take up appropriate actions against ITLF immediately, it said.
All the indigenous people of Manipur must study and check how some people working in cahoots with Kuki-Zo terrorists have been claiming to be representing all the indigenous tribes of Manipur at different National and international fora.
Claiming to be a forum of the leaders of indigenous tribal communities, the so-called ITLF has submitted a number of memoranda to the Government of India.
It would not be long before they claim to be genuine indigenous people of Manipur and they would boldly say that nobody raised any objection when they were working as an indigenous group of Manipur, AMUCO warned.
It then asserted that the people of Manipur and AMUCO would safeguard the integrity of Manipur and the sanctity of its territorial boundary at all costs.
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