IMPHAL, Dec 17 NNN: The first Saikul Block Kuki Chiefs Conference got concluded today at Model English Higher Secondary School, Saikul where Kuki leaders harped on the issues confronting the Kukis today.
General secretary of Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) Dr Satkai Chongloi lamented about the non-compliance of the government of India on the numerous memoranda submitted to the latter by the Kuki Inpi, Manipur (KIM) demanding to address the plights of 1990s ethnic cauldron where 900 Kukis got killed. Dr Satkai Chongloi said more than 60 memorandum had been submitted to the government but there has been no response till date. According to Dr Chongloi, some 360 Kuki villages got deserted in the 1990s when the NSCN-IM led Nagas carried out the ethnic cleansing. He further said that so many PIL were filed but still no response came forth from the government side.
Dr Satkai Chongloi then lauded Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla who had reportedly told the Kuki State Demand
Committee (KSDC) that he is not only the chief minister of Mizoram alone but he is for the whole Chin-Kuki-Mizo group.
Rev RR Chothe while speaking on the occasion as a resource person claimed that the Kukis started settling in Manipur since 1821.
Meanwhile, over 150 Kuki chiefs participated in the programme.
The programme was organised by Kuki Inpi, Saikul and Kuki Students Organisation (KSO), Saikul.
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