KIM requests HM to take suo-motu case against Meitei Leepun; Submits 4-point demands including Separate Administration

Following the incriminating interview made in the media (The Wire) by Karan Thapar with Meitei Leepun Chief, Pramot Singh, the Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) has requested the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, to take up suo-moto case against the Meitei Leepun and its Chief, Pramot Singh, for inciting violence against Kukis.

The Kuki Apex Body also submitted four- point demands today to the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, including Total Administrative Separation from Manipur.

In a letter submitted today, KIM demanded that the Government of India should declare the Meitei Leepun as outlawed organization, should arrest and book the Meitei Leepun chief, Pramot Singh, under relevant laws for instigating the violence and issuing threats that can further lead to escalation of the violence, to probe the involvement of other Meitei organizations such as Arambai Tenggol, etc., for the genocidal killings against the Kuki people and inciting communal passion, and should acknowledge the plights and predicaments of the Kuki people vis-a-vis the impracticality to return to Imphal valley and live together with the Meiteis again in the face of looming larger threats to their existence as revealed by Meitei Leepun leader.

As such, KIM demanded that the Gol should immediately expedite total administrative separation for the Zo people like the Government of Manipur and Meiteis.

In its letter, KIM mentioned the fact that the ongoing violence in Manipur was a pre-planned ethnic cleansing campaign against the Kuki community by the majority Meiteis and stated that it has become more clearer day by day. The apprehension that the pogrom against the Kuki community is still not over and that there is an imminent danger to the extent of annihilating all who survive the present genocide has become more evident, it said.

KIM also said that the suspicious involvement of a Meitei radical group, Meitei Leepun in the present persecution of Kuki people has also been proven beyond doubt. In an interview to The Wire ( https://youtu.be/VDInPewUhmU ), the Meitei Leepun supremo Pramot Singh made a damning revelation that he and his organization were in the know about
genocide being planned against the Kuki people. How the hate campaign against the Kuki people transformed into ethnic cleansing under a very communal government was also very clear through the contents of the interview given by Meitei Leepun chief Pramot Singh.

In the interview, filled with hatred and malice against the Kuki people, Mr Pramot categorically issued a stern warning to the Kuki people that the Meiteis are still discussing among themselves on how to go about annihilating the Kuki people. He said that once the discussion is over among all strata of Meitei society and they reach a consensus, the Meiteis would deliver a huge 'blow’ to the Kukis which they (Kukis) won't be able to defend. The blow will wine out the whole population of the Kukis, Pramot had said.

KIM stated that there is a prima facie evidence that the Kuki people are still
under impending danger from the Meitei people and their militias.

Against this backdrop, KIM added, the idea of Kuki people sharing space and living together with the Meiteis again become more infeasible and impracticable under any circumstances. Mr. Pramot’s statements were reflective of the anguish, sentiments and mindset of typical Meiteis. The enemy to them are the Kuki community and living together with a group of people who want to annihilate us is impossible, it stated.

KIM, therefore, urged the urgent need for total separation from Manipur where the Kuki community can live peacefully as dignified Indian citizens, living in their ancestral lands under the constitutional of India.

The Kuki Apex today urged the Government of India to take cognizance of the involvement of the Meitei Leepun in inciting the violence against the Kuki people and stoking communal passion.