Following its crucial cabinet meeting on July 12, 2023 and the Executive Decision taken thereof, the Kuki Inpi Manipur, the apex body of Kuki tribes, explicitly stated its demand for separate administration in the form of separate State under Article 3 of the Indian Constitution and lay down the rationale for demanding a statehood.
In it press statement on Thursday, KIM stated that in the midst of the prevailing perilous situation arising out of the Machiavellian political dispensation designed and ordained by N. Biren Singh through state-sponsored ethnic cleansing pogrom being unleashed on the Kukis in India’s Manipur, the Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) reaffirms its collective political demand in the interest of the general public.
“The State capital Imphal has been compartmentalized by the communal Meiteis by hounding off all the Kukis from Imphal valley after burning down their colonies/settlements and churches. The scale and intensity of the institutionalized violence reached catastrophic proportion wherein even our elected representatives are not spared, let alone our bureaucrats and police officers (central and state services),” KIM said.
The Kuki apex body said the gruesome genocidal killings of the Kukis abetted by the State machineries and the Meitei militias, who are given carta blanche to annihilate the Kukis evidently shows that the ever- widening differences between the Kukis and the Meiteis remain irreconcilable!
“In their nefarious attempt to usurp our inalienable land, certain acts like Protected Forest and Reserved Forest have been forcibly imposed in our land-the abode of our forefathers-since time immemorial,” it said, and added that such nefarious attempt clearly indicated that not only could the Kukis not live and settle in the State capital, but also disposed them of, and forbidden to live in their own land as the very existence of the Kukis as a people remain threatened.
It also stated that the outright abrogation of century-old treaties signed between the Kukis and the Meiteis viz., the Moirang Treaty of 1859 and the Sanjenthong Treaty of 1873 coupled with the subsequent declaration of war on the Kuki people by the Meitei community is inimical to the principles of peaceful co- existence enshrined in the treaties, thus paving the way for Total Separation of the two communities, the Kukis and the Meities ad infinitum.
“As a matter of fact, demographical/geographical separation has come into effect now. It is therefore, pertinent on the part of the central government to expedite separate administration in the form of creation of a new state under Art.3 of the Indian Constitution for lasting peace in the region,” KIM said.
The Kukis reaffirmed that they should continue to strive together with sweat and blood to protect their rights and liberties until their political demand is realized in the form of Separate State.
