Imphal/Guwahati:
A umbrella organizations of social organizations of the community of the Valley-Dominant Meiti community of Manipur has asked Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla to work within a month to repair an elected government.
The president's rule was imposed in violence in Manipur on 13 February after the resignation of Chief Minister N Biren Singh.
Representatives of the Coordination Committee for Manipur Integrity (Cocomi) met Governor Bhalla in the Raj Bhavan in the capital Imphal and served a 13-point memorandum in those detailed steps that the Governor can consider bringing peace to Manipur.
“It is clear that the current law and order crisis in Manipur does not have a specific agenda or goal of dealing with this conflict. The crisis seems to be driven by those who pursue the demand for a separate administration,” Cocomi , “Cocomi said in the memorandum.
Cocomi asked the governor to work on an extensive initiative to identify, dismantle and dismiss all illegal villages that have originated throughout the state, which threatened its demographic and environmental integrity.
The group of civil society said that all violent activities and unauthorized movement of armed groups must be stopped to guarantee peace and stability and to offer measures to provide safety and amnesty for all affected villages and their civilian village defense groups to protect them against They permanent violence.
“The coordinator of the northeast [for] BJP has firmly convinced that the territorial integrity of Manipur will be protected. The coordinator must unambiguously claim that the administrative integrity of Manipur is of the utmost importance and must be protected without exception, so that it remains uncompressed. It is necessary that we eliminate any possibility of individual administration, “said Cocomi.
The Raj Bhavan said in a statement that Cocomi Convenor KH Athouba and six others call on the governor and submitted a memorandum that important issues with regard to the state emphasized.
“… Governor heard their worries and asked them to work with the government to restore the harmony,” said the Raj Bhavan.
Cocomi claimed that one of the root causes of the Manipur crisis is the involvement of what the “kin-kuki narco-terrorist separatist groups” that have worked “in a way that is comparable to the Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) in Myanmar, With the help of this coordination of negotiation for territorial profit within Manipur, while he uses replaceable Kuki militants in a proxy war and counter -upright activities under the guise of loyalty “against India.
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“The suspension of the operations (SOO) agreement since 2008, which has made a military possible, must be thoroughly revised and dismantled. Track, Myanmar), underlines their foreign origin,” Cocomi said in the Memorandum.
“The State requires urgent restoration of the law and order about both hills and plains, immediate assistance and financial assistance for the affected, reconstruction of destroyed villages with adequate security measures, rehabilitation of internal displaced parties (IDPs), to their safe return to their respectively Houses and villages to be guaranteed, and free and safe access to health care, education and transport facilities, including uninterrupted and safe movement along national motorways, “Cocomi said.
Today had a fruitful and meaningful discussion with the Hon'ble Governor of Manipur. All important issues were thoroughly explained and recognized, so that the road was cleared for a better solution to the chronic problems of the state, which have been exacerbated by immense cross -border pressure … pic.twitter.com/tyyrfidwvq
– Khuraijam Athouba (@paari_athouba) February 17, 2025
About 24 Kuki – so militant groups come under two umbrella organizations for negotiations – the Kuki National Organization (ENT) under the leadership of the KNA and the United People's Front (UPF) led by the Zomi Revolutionary Army. The ENT and the UPF that all others represent have signed the SOO agreement with the center and the government of Manipur. According to this agreement, the militants must stay in designated camps and their weapons are kept in locked storage to be regularly checked.
The state governance has demanded that he would terminate the SOO agreement about accusations that Soo-linked militants participated in the manipur violence, as well as militants of different forbidden Meiti groups that had almost been eradicated from Manipur in the past 10 years, returns from them hiding places in neighboring Myanmar after the outbreak of ethnic collisions in May 2023.
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The SOO agreement is assessed every year by a joint monitoring group; The last assessment was in February 2024, but little is known about the current status of the agreement.
Meitei leaders have claimed that the SOO groups have worked to strengthen themselves over the years by taking advantage of the cease -the fire, until a time came to develop a violent attack for a separate country. Geopolitical analysts have speculated that the armed groups of Kuki were used as mercenaries to fight Meitei and Naga -Militants who are active in the border between India -Myanmar -while the SOO groups for separate territory of manipur the unintended side effect Is of that claimed policy.
The Kuki tribes and the Meitis have been fighting a number of issues such as land rights and political representation since May 2023.
