Vehemently condemning the repeated dastardly attack against the Kuki-Zo people and the alleged unwarranted encroachment into Kuki-Zo land, the Kuki Inpi Manipur appealed to all concerned to look into the matter with all seriousness without which could provoke the Kuki-Zo community to defend their land and rights with all might.
The apex body of the Kuki tribes also said that the brutal killing of the two innocent Kuki-Zo in the second ambush by the Valley-Based Insurgent Groups must serve as a wake-up call to the Government of India to genuinely look into the fate of the Kuki-Zo people under the Meitei state Government.
Janghaolun Haokip, Information, and Publicity Secretary of KIM said that it is extremely disquieting that in spite of the Government’s earnest call for peace, the VBIGs continue to terrorize the Kuki-Zo people, resulting in two more Kuki-Zo individuals killed in an ambush around 9:30 a.m. today.
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He said that the relentless attacks and barbaric killings of the Kuki-Zo people by Valley-based insurgent groups (VBIGs) are indescribable while it plainly displayed the intense hatred and unrelenting attitude of the Meiteis in this pre-planned and state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of the Kuki-Zo people that has claimed the lives of over 152 Kuki-Zo people, with 300-plus villages destroyed; more than 7000 houses torched, and more than 40,000 Kuki-Zo people displaced from their homes and hearth.
He continued that it is deeply distressing that the state of the Kuki-Zo remained unchanged six months past the state-sponsored terrorism despite repeated appeals to the Central Government for the safety and security of the Kuki-Zo people while adding that various Kuki-Zo civil society organizations have time and again expressed the partisan nature of the Meitei State government and its involvement in orchestrating and prolonging the conflict.
“It is beyond doubt that the Manipur State Government has grievously tempered the law and order to fit the Meitei agenda to wipe out the indigenous Kuki-Zo people”, he added.
He also said that similarly, it is pertinent for the central government to recognize that the pillars of democracy in Manipur state have all been compromised to the core.
He further said that the recent aggression of the Manipur Police Commandos at Sinam village en route to Moreh is yet another testament of the Meitei government of Manipur.
“The agonizing death of the two Kuki-Zo individuals must serve as a wake-up call to the government of India to genuinely look into the fate of the Kuki-Zo people under the Meitei State Government”, he asserted.
He also said that the central government must act against the barbarity of the state-sponsored ethnic cleansing by the Meiteis against our people.
