Naga civil society teams alleged assault on members of a scholar’ physique by Kuki volunteers
Imphal:
A number of civil society organisations of the Naga tribes in Manipur have condemned alleged assault on members of a scholar’ physique of their tribes in Manipur’s Senapati district.
The Senapati District College students’ Affiliation (SDSA) in a press release stated their members have been “brutally assaulted and harassed” by Kuki volunteers in Gamgiphai within the district on Sunday night time.
The SDSA alleged their members have been subjected to “aggressive bodily assaults and abusive phrases spitted out to the leaders, regardless of repeatedly asserting the volunteers that they have been executives of the SDSA.”
The official automotive of the scholars’ affiliation was vandalised, the SDSA stated.
“… SDSA questions the intention of the Kuki neighborhood as to why after repeated MoUs signed between NPO and CoTU for mutual respect and coexistence, the Kukis cannot sustain the settlement in letter and spirit,” the SDSA stated within the assertion, referring to the settlement signed between the Naga Individuals’s Organisation (NPO) and the Kangpokpi-based Kuki group Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU) on November 21.
The Mao College students’ Union, and the Poumai Naga Tsiidoumai Me (PNTM) in separate statements additionally condemned the assault on the SDSA members.
“… These leaders, who bear the accountability of representing and advocating for the neighborhood, have been brutally attacked and harassed by Kuki volunteers stationed on the publish… Such violent acts are totally unacceptable and signify a grave risk to the concord and cooperation we attempt to keep up between communities,” the PNTM stated.
The Mao College students’ Union stated the “vandalism of official property additional illustrates the malicious intent to degrade and intimidate”, and requested the authorities to behave swiftly in holding the perpetrators accountable. It known as on all communities “to reject such disgraceful behaviour, fostering a spirit of respect and unity.”
Whereas the Manipur ethnic violence is between the Kuki tribes and the Meitei neighborhood, the scenario has usually led to pressure build up amongst different communities in sharing street networks, logistics, and passenger transport.
The Naga and the Kuki tribes had been concerned in ethnic clashes between 1992 and 1999.