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UWAHATI: Even as the Centre is preparing a fresh roadmap to bring an end to the decades-old Naga problem with a new set of offers, the Kukis
have tried to internationalize "the attacks by Naga militants on the Kuki tribe in the Nineties" and termed the NSCN (I-M) a "terrorist organization".
Kuki Inpi, the apex body of Kukis in the North-East, has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to solve their problem first before going ahead with any settlement with the NSCN (I-M). What made the Kukis' move all the more significant is that a copy Kuki Inpi's letter to the PM was also sent to UN Secretary General and the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, trying to drag the NSCN (I-M) to the international forum.
The Kuki Inpi blamed NSCN (IM) for "killing hundreds of people belonging to the (Kuki) community in Manipur and Nagaland between 1992 and 1997". It said over 900 Kuki tribals, including women and children, have been killed during the period by the Nagalim guards, an NSCN (I-M) sponsored militant outfit.
Over 360 Kuki villages in Manipur were burnt down and uprooted and about 100,000 Kukis were internally displaced.
A fight over land in Manipur led to a bloody ethnic clashes for five long years and claimed over 2,000 lives.
The R K Dorendra Singh-led Congress government was dismissed and the state was placed under President's Rule on December 31, 1993, in the wake of escalation in the Naga-Kuki
clashes.
Kuki Inpi wants the Centre to solve Kuki problem first as a pre-requisite to any settlement with the NSCN (I-M). "If the Kuki problem is not settled first, the Centre should be responsible for what will follow in the future," it added.
Saying it's not too late to solve the Kuki problem, the Kuki Inpi said the Centre should first restore all the Kuki villages that have been uprooted. It also demanded settlement of all the one lakh displaced Kukis in their original areas.
Observers say that the Kuki Inpi's move "is very wise" because restoring of any uprooted Kuki villages in Manipur will directly hit the NSCN (I-M)'s demand for "Greater Nagalim".
Many areas of the "Greater Nagalim", as demanded by the Naga rebels, in Manipur were once settled by the Kukis.Today, the Kukis are an unhappy lot with the Centre for allegedly ignoring their problems and going ahead with the NSCN (I-M) talks.
The Kuki Inpi said over 60 memoranda have been submitted to Central leaders, including the President and the PM, but in vain.
According to the organization, all trouble began on October 22, 1992 when the United Naga Council of Manipur served a quit notice on the Kukis, leading to the bloody ethnic clashes.
UWAHATI: Even as the Centre is preparing a fresh roadmap to bring an end to the decades-old Naga problem with a new set of offers, the Kukis
have tried to internationalize "the attacks by Naga militants on the Kuki tribe in the Nineties" and termed the NSCN (I-M) a "terrorist organization".
Kuki Inpi, the apex body of Kukis in the North-East, has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to solve their problem first before going ahead with any settlement with the NSCN (I-M). What made the Kukis' move all the more significant is that a copy Kuki Inpi's letter to the PM was also sent to UN Secretary General and the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, trying to drag the NSCN (I-M) to the international forum.
The Kuki Inpi blamed NSCN (IM) for "killing hundreds of people belonging to the (Kuki) community in Manipur and Nagaland between 1992 and 1997". It said over 900 Kuki tribals, including women and children, have been killed during the period by the Nagalim guards, an NSCN (I-M) sponsored militant outfit.
Over 360 Kuki villages in Manipur were burnt down and uprooted and about 100,000 Kukis were internally displaced.
A fight over land in Manipur led to a bloody ethnic clashes for five long years and claimed over 2,000 lives.
The R K Dorendra Singh-led Congress government was dismissed and the state was placed under President's Rule on December 31, 1993, in the wake of escalation in the Naga-Kuki
clashes.
Kuki Inpi wants the Centre to solve Kuki problem first as a pre-requisite to any settlement with the NSCN (I-M). "If the Kuki problem is not settled first, the Centre should be responsible for what will follow in the future," it added.
Saying it's not too late to solve the Kuki problem, the Kuki Inpi said the Centre should first restore all the Kuki villages that have been uprooted. It also demanded settlement of all the one lakh displaced Kukis in their original areas.
Observers say that the Kuki Inpi's move "is very wise" because restoring of any uprooted Kuki villages in Manipur will directly hit the NSCN (I-M)'s demand for "Greater Nagalim".
Many areas of the "Greater Nagalim", as demanded by the Naga rebels, in Manipur were once settled by the Kukis.Today, the Kukis are an unhappy lot with the Centre for allegedly ignoring their problems and going ahead with the NSCN (I-M) talks.
The Kuki Inpi said over 60 memoranda have been submitted to Central leaders, including the President and the PM, but in vain.
According to the organization, all trouble began on October 22, 1992 when the United Naga Council of Manipur served a quit notice on the Kukis, leading to the bloody ethnic clashes.
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