Drive out Kuki militants : JCILPS
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 02 2023:
The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) has asked the State Government to exert its authority and drive away the Kuki militants from the soil of Manipur.
The JCILPS along with the volunteers of its student and women wings organised a social service camp at Awa Ching in Imphal East as a preparation for the 8th death anniversary observance of Sapam Robinhood who died for the cause of the indigenous people on July 8, today.
Addressing the media by the sideline, JCILPS convenor Phulindro Konsam said that the Committee doesn't see the violence in Manipur only as an ethnic clash but a deliberate attempt by illegal immigrants to establish a drug manufacturing centre in Manipur.
He said that this endeavour of the illegal immigrants is detrimental to both the State and India and many youth have already fallen victims to this nefarious design.
The growth of the Kuki population in Manipur in the last few decades is abnormal, Phulindro claimed.
Claiming that it is the illegal immigrants who established the armed Kuki groups and carried out widespread poppy cultivation, Phulindro added that the demand of Kuki homeland or separate administration of Chin-Kuki and their kindred tribe is associated with the drug business as they want to pursue their illegal business without any restriction.
He further claimed that the violence of May 3 was instigated by Kuki militants as the Government's move to establish Population Commission, implement National Register of Citizens (NRC) and crackdown on illegal immigrants, poppy cultivations, encroachment on reserved and protected forest are a stumbling block in their drug trade.
Asserting that the JCILPS takes the pre-planned conduct of Kuki militants as monstrous, Phulindro urged the Government of India to abrogate the Suspension of Operation (SoO) pact with the Kuki militants as soon as possible.
The militants from Myanmar who were driven away by the Junta in the neighbouring country continue to attack Meeteis even today, Phulindro said and asked why the Government of India is not taking up any serious actions against them (the Kuki militants) .
He further stated that the State Government should exercise its power to push back the Kuki militants and save the lives of the civilians.
Meanwhile, Phulindro said that the death anniversary of Robinhood will be held in a simple manner with offering floral tributes as the main programme due to the unrest.