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MPHAL: The Kuki people observed "Black Day" across insurgency-hit Manipur on Sunday to mourn nearly 1,000 people of the community allegedly
killed by NSCN (IM) militants during ethnic clashes in the early Nineties.
In 1993, on this day, NSCN (IM) cadres massacred 87 Kukis, including women and children, at a remote Kuki village in Manipur's Tamenglong district. About 1,000 people were massacred and 350 villages burnt down during the four-year-long clashes which also left a number of the Nagas dead.
People of the tribe hoisted traditional shawls in their homes a ritual followed for the past 16 years to commemorate the dead. They also prayed for peace and reconciliation in the churches. "Today, we stopped all sorts of entertainment programmes and prayed for the departed souls. We also prayed for everlasting peace and communal harmony in the state," said T Haokip, a Kuki youth in the state capital.
The Kuki National Organization (KNO), an umbrella body of eleven Kuki militant outfits which are currently observing a ceasefire with the government, also paid homage to thousands killed in the 1993 riots.
"With deep sense of patriotism, the KNO pays its respectful homage and heartfelt condolence to all those killed, maimed, orphaned and widowed by the armed Limguards' under the command of the NSCN (IM) during the Nineties, particularly to those inhumanely butchered villagers of Zoupi and Yanglenphai," KNO said in a statement.
The organization added that this day of remembrance is occasionally solemnized as "Sahnit Ni" or "Selnit Ni" in Thadou-Kuki.
KNO also decried "the miscalculated programme of the Muivah led leadership, which has nothing to do with Naga nationalism of A Z Phizo and the much-talked about agenda of Naga integrity sans sovereignty."
Manipur on Sunday paid fitting respect to the four India Reserve Battalion (IRB) jawans who were killed in an ambush by Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA) militants at Karong Chingjin in Imphal East on Saturday morning. But the outfit said the ambush was launched assuming that the convoy was that of Central security forces.
Amid a tearful scene , bodies of Kh Biky (22), his cousin brother Kh Amuchou (30), Kh Nando and Thuisinpao were brought to the state police memorial site at the premises of 1BN Manipur Rifles here on Sunday.
Led by chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, police officials and bereaved family members paid floral tribute to the four jawans.
MPHAL: The Kuki people observed "Black Day" across insurgency-hit Manipur on Sunday to mourn nearly 1,000 people of the community allegedly
killed by NSCN (IM) militants during ethnic clashes in the early Nineties.
In 1993, on this day, NSCN (IM) cadres massacred 87 Kukis, including women and children, at a remote Kuki village in Manipur's Tamenglong district. About 1,000 people were massacred and 350 villages burnt down during the four-year-long clashes which also left a number of the Nagas dead.
People of the tribe hoisted traditional shawls in their homes a ritual followed for the past 16 years to commemorate the dead. They also prayed for peace and reconciliation in the churches. "Today, we stopped all sorts of entertainment programmes and prayed for the departed souls. We also prayed for everlasting peace and communal harmony in the state," said T Haokip, a Kuki youth in the state capital.
The Kuki National Organization (KNO), an umbrella body of eleven Kuki militant outfits which are currently observing a ceasefire with the government, also paid homage to thousands killed in the 1993 riots.
"With deep sense of patriotism, the KNO pays its respectful homage and heartfelt condolence to all those killed, maimed, orphaned and widowed by the armed Limguards' under the command of the NSCN (IM) during the Nineties, particularly to those inhumanely butchered villagers of Zoupi and Yanglenphai," KNO said in a statement.
The organization added that this day of remembrance is occasionally solemnized as "Sahnit Ni" or "Selnit Ni" in Thadou-Kuki.
KNO also decried "the miscalculated programme of the Muivah led leadership, which has nothing to do with Naga nationalism of A Z Phizo and the much-talked about agenda of Naga integrity sans sovereignty."
Manipur on Sunday paid fitting respect to the four India Reserve Battalion (IRB) jawans who were killed in an ambush by Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA) militants at Karong Chingjin in Imphal East on Saturday morning. But the outfit said the ambush was launched assuming that the convoy was that of Central security forces.
Amid a tearful scene , bodies of Kh Biky (22), his cousin brother Kh Amuchou (30), Kh Nando and Thuisinpao were brought to the state police memorial site at the premises of 1BN Manipur Rifles here on Sunday.
Led by chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, police officials and bereaved family members paid floral tribute to the four jawans.
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