Guwahati:
A particular court docket of the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has accepted proof submitted by the NIA of a suspected Kuki militant commander saying he and his males attacked the Central Reserve Police Pressure (CRPF) and set hearth to properties in Manipur.
The NIA instructed the court docket {that a} viral video on a YouTube channel reveals a person “suspected to be a Kuki militant known as ‘Tiger’, a commander of the Kuki Nationwide Entrance-P (KNF-P), claiming he and his males attacked CRPF and burnt down homes on November 11.”
The NIA investigating a suspected Kuki militant of the KNF-P additionally raises questions over doable violation of the suspension of operations (SoO) settlement.
Three large escalations occurred in ethnic violence-hit Manipur on November 11 – first, six of a household from the Meitei group had been kidnapped and killed in Jiribam district by suspects who the Manipur authorities in a cabinet statement known as “Kuki militants”; second, 10 others – additionally recognized as “Kuki militants” by the state authorities – had been shot useless in an encounter with the Central Reserve Police Pressure in the identical district, and third, firing from the hills in the direction of Imphal West District’s Kangchup and Koutruk simply hours after the Jiribam encounter left two folks injured.
The court docket in its order accepting the NIA proof mentioned the anti-terror company downloaded the viral video of the suspected Kuki militant right into a pen drive within the presence of two witnesses.
The NIA submitted the pen drive to the court docket in a sealed envelope underneath Part 105 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) that offers with digital proof.
NDTV has seen a duplicate of the court docket order.
The court docket mentioned the pen drive has been returned to the NIA for additional investigation.
About KNF-P
The ‘P’ in KNF-P means “president”; it’s used to point KNF-P is the unique KNF, therefore the letter “president”, the supreme. The KNF was based in 1987. In 1994, KNF cut up into two factions i.e. KNF-MC led by SK Kipgen, and the unique grew to become KNF-P led by ST Thangboi Kipgen.
So, KNF is the KNF-P; the remainder are its factions.
The KNF is a signatory to the controversial suspension of operations (SoO) agreement signed between practically two dozen Kuki militant teams and the state and the centre. Below SoO, the militants are to remain at designated camps and their weapons stored in locked, monitored storage.
The Manipur authorities has been asking the joint monitoring group, which evaluations the SoO settlement yearly, to scrap it for good, over allegations that the SoO teams have been majorly concerned within the Manipur violence from the start. The SoO settlement lapsed in February this yr.
There are a lot of villages of the Kuki tribes within the hills surrounding the Meitei-dominated valley. The clashes between the Meitei group and the practically two dozen tribes generally known as Kukis, who’re dominant in some hill areas of Manipur, have killed over 250 folks and internally displaced practically 50,000.
The overall class Meiteis wish to be included underneath the Scheduled Tribes class, whereas the Kukis who share ethnic ties with folks in neighbouring Myanmar’s Chin State and Mizoram need a separate administration carved out of Manipur, citing discrimination and unequal share of sources and energy with the Meiteis.
Meitei leaders have alleged the SoO teams have been working to strengthen themselves over time by benefiting from the ceasefire, till a time got here to engineer a violent assault for a separate land. Geopolitical analysts have speculated the Kuki armed teams had been used as mercenaries to battle Meitei and Naga militants working within the India-Myanmar border.
Kuki-Zo civil society teams such because the ITLF and the CoTU, and their 10 MLAs have joined the decision for a separate administration carved out of Manipur, a requirement additionally made by the practically two dozen militant teams which have signed the SoO settlement.
This single demand has introduced the Kuki militant teams, the ten Kuki-Zo MLAs, and the civil society teams on the identical web page.
The safety forces have been making an attempt to dismantle bunkers within the hills surrounding Imphal valley after a number of incidents of firing for the previous couple of days.
Kuki protesters tried to cease the safety forces from destroying the bunkers. Some protesters had been injured when the safety forces tried to disperse them.