MReF lashes KIM with 'facts'
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 18 2024:
Reacting to a response of the Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) to a statement issued by the Meitei Resurgence Forum (MReF) to the press earlier, the MReF has asserted that the common Kuki people are suffering because of KIM's blatant lies aimed at covering up crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
The response of KIM to MReF press note under the title, "Kuki Inpi Manipur should have the courage to speak the truth and must stop misleading the common people," clearly shows that their actions prioritize the interests of Kuki people especially the illegal immigrants over the other people of Manipur including those Kukis and Thadous who want to live peacefully in Manipur, the MReF said in a press release.
It is understandable that KIM should prioritise the interests of Kuki people.
However, justifying the attack and arson of Meitei houses as well as killing because of a counter blockade is just ridiculous and a big lie.
Blockade and counter blockade are a normal happenings in Manipur and never ever has a community been attacked and houses burnt because of blockade or counter-blockade, it said.
From the statement, it is also clear that KIM supports the cleansing of Meiteis from Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, Moreh, Saikul and other Kuki dominated areas, it remarked.
"Your people even snatched away their pattas (land deeds).
What miserable ungrateful selfish people they are?", it said.
"KIM in their press note alleged that four Meitei radical groups are responsible for "ethnic cleansing" the Kukis.
To paraphrase you, they are Meitei State Forces, Valley Based Insurgent Group (VBIGs), Meetei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol", MReF remarked.
If the logic is carried forward then more than 40 groups are responsible for the attack on Meiteis.
There are 25 Kuki militant groups under Suspension of Operation (SoO) with the Government of India which come under two umbrella organisations namely United People's Front (UPF) and Kuki National Organisation (KNO) .
The UPF comprises eight outfits namely Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), Kuki National Front (KNF), United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF), Kuki Liberation Army (KLA/UPF), Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA), Kuki National Front-S (KNF-S), Hmar Peoples Conference-D (HPC-D), and Zou Defence Volunteer (ZDV).
The KNO encompasses 11 other militant outfits namely; .
Kuki National Front - Military Council (KNF-MC), Kuki National Front-Zougam(KNF-Z), United Socialist Revolutionary Army (USRA), United Minority Liberation Army-Old Kuki (UMLA-OK), United Komrem Revolutionary Army (UKRA), Zomi Reunification Front (ZomRF), Zou Unification Front (ZRF), Zou Defence Volunteer (ZDV/KNO), Kuki Revolutionary Army-Unification (KRA-U), Kuki Liberation Army (KLA/KNO) and Kuki National Army (KNA).
Then, there is the Kuki Defense Force (KDF) which was created in the wake of the infamous Kuki-Naga ethnic clash and competition for control over these cadres led to bloodshed between KNO and KDF.
Furthermore, there are dozens of radical armed Kuki and Zomi groups besides Mizoram Police, PDF and the KNA-Burma.
"Let's assume that (as KIM alleged) four forces are fighting with these 40 odd forces, and everyday these 40 odd forces are raining pompi bombs on the defenceless Meitei civilians.
And KIM has the guts to allege that the "radical" Meiteis are "ethnic cleansing" the Kukis," MReF continued.
Kukis are ethnic cleansing the Meiteis and not the other way around.
It is easy to allege that so and so were killed to justify the planned attack and ethnic cleansing of Meiteis, it said.
"Even your people have the audacity to rape minor Meitei girls and kill them by slitting their throats.
You use the Cross as an instrument to occupy the Meitei's sacred site! What a blasphemy! Land Grabber is what you are", it said.
It is time to stop lying and misleading the common people.
Common Kuki people are suffering because of blatant lies to cover up crimes by the Kuki illegal immigrants against the Meiteis, it added.