Sources say arrested civilians in Moreh tortured indiscriminately; KWOHR condemns police atrocities

The seven innocent civilians who were arrested on a mere suspicion were beaten black and blue multiple times by the Meitei Police Commandos at the Police Commando Station in Moreh, reliable sources informed The Hills Journal.

Sources also said that constant cries of the arrested individuals could be heard from within the Manipur Police Commando Complex at Moreh where the arrested individuals were begging to be rescued from the station while also supposedly expressing the pain and agony they have gone through inside the station.

Condemning the Police brutality, the Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights (KWOHR) said the organisation was deeply disturbed by the relentless torture of seven arrested civilians from Moreh by the Manipur Police Commandos. "Such inhuman torture is unwarranted and is a gross violation of Human Rights. It depicts the totalitarian disposition of the Meitei-led State government which is anti-Kuki-Zo, anti-constitutional and anti-human," it said.

Moreover, while the presence of Meitei Police Commandos in Moreh is itself a giant controversy owing to the strong opposition by the locals, the grounds of arrest of those individuals was at most suspicious and shocking, it said alleging that the operation, detention, arrest, and subsequent highhandedness against the individuals were implicitly the open persecution against the Kuki-Zo community.

The Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights (KWOHR) strongly condemned the physical, mental, and emotional assault against the arrested individuals belonging to the Kuki-Zo community by the Meitei Police Commandos stationed at Moreh.
It is evident that the conflict in Manipur is a targeted oppression of the minority Kuki-Zo people by the majority Meiteis, KWOHR alleged.

Therefore, it is urgent for the Centre government to take appropriate and immediate measures against the gross violation of human rights which could only stir the conflict to a greater gravity and intensity, it said.

KWOHR made a sincere appeal to all Human Rights Organisations to stand in solidarity with the victims and to stand against the undue use of force and anti-constitutional means by the Meitei Police Commandos and the extreme human rights violations against the Kuki-Zo community.