On the solemn day of the 106th Anniversary of Anglo-Kuki War (1917-1919), the Kuki Inpi Manipur has called upon the Kuki-Zo people to recommit to the pledge taken by the people themselves to never retreat nor give up the fight for justice and to stand strong with the rights, as it extended greetings to all Kuki-Zo people with a message to instill the spirit of supreme sacrifices of their forefathers in defending their ancestral land and freedom.
KIM called upon the Kuki-Zo people to remember and honour the supreme sacrifices of their forefathers who fought the mighty Biritish colonialism for independence. “It was on this day that our forefathers took a vow that at all cost, our people should fight against the British for the preservation of our independence, for the protection of our land, culture and tradition”, it stated.
KIM said the Anglo-Kuki War is indeed a glorious story of valour and sacrifices; and of hope and resilience against all odds. To the colonial writers, the Anglo-Kuki War is one of the most formidable wars the Britishers have ever fought in this part of the land.
LW Shakespear, the then Deputy Inspector General of the Assam Rifles said: “It therefore grew into the largest series of military operations conducted on this side of India since the old (full-scale) Expeditionary days Generals Penn Symonds and Tregear in the late (eighteen) eighties, or the futile Abor Expedition of the 1911-12, eclipsing them all in casualties and arduousness of active service”.
The Anglo-Kuki War (1917-1919) is in fact, the “longest, largest, costliest military operation” in the whole of India since the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
