Imphal Jul 14 MNS Agencies: A two and a half year old daughter of the home secretary of Kuki Liberation Organisation (KLO)/Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) who sustained critical injury in Saturday’s attack that killed the home secretary has died Sunday, around 2 am.
Hoizoukim succumbed to bullet injury at Shija hospital where she was admitted after critically wounded in the ambushed laid on KLO/KLA home secretary Lh Seikhohao Kongsai (33) yesterday, around 3.30 pm.
In the ambush that killed the home secretary, his driver also sustained bullet injury even as his wife escaped unhurt. The ambush which police suspect laid by a rival group of the KLO was laid near a culvert at Champhai village under Sagolmang police station
of Imphal while he was travelling in his Verna car bearing registration number MN02/A7518.
Meanwhile, the dead bodies of the home secretary and his daughter have
been handed over to the family after necessary postmortem at JNIMS morgue today. The bodies were taken to Saikul, the native village of the deceased for last rites.
The Kuki Innpi Manipur (KIM), headquarters at Imphal has strongly condemned the assassination of the home secretary of the KLO/KLA while
terming it was an act of cowardice people. Such a “barbaric” act should be condemned by all section of the society.
Asserting that KLO/KLA is among the Kuki militant groups coming out on the path of peace after signing suspension of operation with the Centre and state government, spokesperson of the KIM, Ajang Khongsai further blamed the government for not taking up appropriate action for the security of the leaders of the militant groups.
The group has been waiting for initiating political dialogue with the government. So, it is the responsibility of the government to provide security protection to them, he added.
The Kuki Students’ Organisation, General Headquarters (KSO-GHQ) has vehemently condemned the July 13 Champhai arbitrarily firing incident in which, a Saikul bound vehicle of the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) Home Secretary and his family members were heavily attacked by unknown assailants resulting to the instant death of Mr Seikhohao Khongsain alias Marwin, the Home Secretary of KLA and the subsequent death of his daughter Zoukim Khongsai who succumbed to her bullet injury later today at Shija Hospital in Imphal while causing serious injuries to two of the family members.
The KSO said it condemns in the strongest term whosoever may be the assailants, the enmity they have with the deceased KLA functionary is not much a matter of concern.
“However, indiscriminately firing upon civilians, women and children just to terminate their subject is of great concern to the student organization. Such barbaric and inhuman act of the assailants has no place in today’s civilized world. It is a universal conventional practice that in every arm forces group engaged in combat whether state or non-state actor civilian safety is always set the top most priority,” the Kuki students’ body said.
It then added, “As a matter of fact, if they were a true revolutionary group they could have chosen for another suitable day seeing the innocent family members boarding the same vehicle with the subject in order to avoid the lost of innocent life of a little girl and casualties to other family members. If this unfortunate incident happens to be a factional fight amongst the armed groups, the KSO earnestly appeals to all the Kuki underground groups notwithstanding to their different political ideologies or demands to shun violence henceforth. The civil organizations, the public and the Kuki populace have witnessed enough bloodshed amongst the brothers in arms and in between many innocent civilian lives had also gone in vain since the inception of Kuki revolutionary groups”.
The KSO then appeals to the persons/ group involved to clarify the reasons behind their act in public interest and urges not to repeat such acts in the future.
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