The NFNS includes Kukiland, Bodoland, Garoland, Gorkhaland, Tipraland, Bundelkhand, Dima Hasao, Khasi&Jaintia, Karbi-Anglong etc.
As per the Kuki State Demand Committee, The Kuki people of Manipur is, as it was always, presently facing an existential threat from the dominant Meitei community.
We have been consistently appealing to the Government of India that the Kuki people in the state of Manipur have been suffering from existential threat under the NSCN-IM in which we had lost more than 300 villages and more than 1.5 lac people uprooted from them who are still struggling for life in different parts of the Northeast region.
Now the Nagas have been joined hands by the dominant Meitei community of the valley to exterminate the Kuki population from Manipur state altogether.
Based on the concocted history, the Meiteis, like the Nagas earlier, called the Kuki people of Manipur as “refugees” and “foreigners” from Myanmar and started a mass hate campaign against them with the sole objective of expelling them from their lands in Manipur. The Meiteis also declared the Kuki people as “non-indigenous peoples” of Manipur with the sole objective of claiming their land as the Meitei’s ancestral land.
Sequel to such declaration, they also demanded from central government for the deletion of the names of Kuki-Chin tribes from the list of Scheduled Tribes (ST) in India. On the other hand, they also demanded a Scheduled Tribes (ST) status for the “Meitei/Meetei” people.
They also attempted to erase the glorious history of the Kuki people in Northeast India as the freedom fighters’ community. They insisted the Meitei dominated government to erase all the existing memorials of their freedom movements in the state against colonialism, saying that, Kukis had never fought the British.
The last of its kind to erase the history of the Kukis in Manipur was their recent demand for the removal of a “Centenary Gate” erected by the Kuki Inpi Manipur’s Anglo-Kuki War Commemoration Committee to commemorate the hundred years of the Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919, at Leisang, Churachandpur District and Eviction at Kangchup Chiru Village Kangpokpi District.
The Meitei dominated Manipur state government was helpless but to take the aspirations of the dominant Meitei community to its nirvana. Instead of suppressing the ongoing hate campaign against the Kuki community by the dominant Meitei organisations, the incessant hate speeches against them were floated across the local dailies and social network platforms right under its nose. It leads to a situation in which the government of the day is seemingly secretly supporting the ongoing hate speeches against the Kukis in the state. Kukis seem to have become a “problem” for the government. Hundreds of their villages in the hills have been recently declared as “illegal” and “encroacher” to the various Forest Reserves and Wild Life Sanctuaries located in the Kuki dominated hills of the state.
Some of the hills within the Kuki dominated hill areas were also recently declared as important historical sites under the state’s Manipur Ancient and Historical Monument and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1976. (See annexure - 6).
If the state government actual design is not clearly known, such policies were against the wish and consent of the tribal people in the hills.
All the above recent developments in the state of Manipur has led the tribal people in the state in general and the Kukis in particular in constant state of embodied fear and ontological insecurity. It was a situation of existential question which have threaten the life and properties of the young and the old.
Such a situation only demanded for the Kuki people a separate administrative arrangement such as State under the constitution of India. There is no better justification for the Kukis to have their own state than living under existential fear under the dominant Meitei people.
We are particularly apprehensive of the clear and present danger situation as such situation preceded the infamous massacre of the Kukis in the 1990s by the Naga insurgents. Until and unless the central government came for the rescue the very being of the Kukis in Manipur is under an existential threat from the dominant communities in the state.
This is the prayer we had also to all the like minded organisations in NFNS that our only survival on this earth is to remain secure under our own administrative and political safeguards Kuki State Demand Committee added.
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