Insurgency / Manipur

Imphal, Jan. 8: Manipuris vowed to protect the territorial integrity of the state today, a day before the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) leaders Isak Chisi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for talks on the issue of “Greater Nagalim”. A mammoth rally, organised by the Solidarity Committee on the Territorial-Ethnic Integrity of Manipur (SCTEIM), was supported by more than 300 social organisations, including women’s organisations. Nearly one lakh people from all communities, including Nagas, attended the rally.

The rally began from the...

Imphal, January 07: Kuki Inpi Manipur has resolutely stated that there should be no peace talks or agreement between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India before the Kuki problem is settled amicably. In a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Vajpayee, KIM president Haokholet Khongsai wondered how the Centre could invite a man who ordered the killing of 900 innocent lives and was responsible for uprooting 350 villages without even being tried in a proper law court of the country. If the killing and destruction was the result of a conflict between Nagas and Kukis as some quarters ‘unjustly...

Imphal, January 07: The eighth death anniversary for the victims of the RMC (Now RIMS) incident on 7 January 1995 due to indiscriminate firing by CRPF personnel was observed today at RIMS gate. A memorial stone for the nine victims was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Ph Parijat Minister FCS. The nine victims were Momi Riba a medical student of RIMS, L Pradeep Sharma, W Upendra, S Premchand, H Khogen, RK Khogen, Angom Devendra, K Rajendra and Md Jakir. The donors of the memorial stone are L Nandakumar Minister MAHUD, Law, H Joychandra, Late S Amusana Devi, Ksh Chandrahas and W Inao. Ph Parijat...

Jan. 7: A day after the NSCN (Khaplang) declared that the much-awaited Naga peace talks in Delhi would be an exercise in futility, an organisation representing the Kuki community of Manipur pleaded with the Prime Minister and his deputy not to sign any agreement with the Isak-Muivah group. In identical memoranda to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani and government interlocutor K. Padmanabhaiah, the Kuki Inpi, Manipur, charged the NSCN (I-M) with killing over 900 Kukis and displacing members of the community from 350 villages.

Holkholet Khongsai, president of the Kuki Inpi, said the Kukis...

Imphal, Jan. 5: Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh and some of his ministerial colleagues today visited the hub of Manipur’s Naga community, Senapati district, in a bid to smoothen feathers ruffled by his government’s refusal to withdraw the cases pending against NSCN (I-M) leader Thuingaleng Muivah. The daylong tour would have been interpreted as routine, but for the chief minister’s stand, which has antagonised the Naga community.

Trying his best to convince the Nagas that the government was not prejudiced against them, Ibobi Singh announced a slew of welfare schemes for the community...

Imphal, January 02: Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has stated that general secretary of NSCN (IM) Thuingaleng Muivah would not be let off if he comes to Manipur. Addressing mediapersons during a New Year's feast hosted at the Banquet Hall of the 1st MR here yesterday, the Chief Minister who also holds the Home portfolio, however, said that his Government has not yet decided upon any definite action to be initiated against the leaders of the underground outfit which has been stripped of its unlawful tag recently to clear their path for the India visit. NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and...

Imphal, Jan. 1: The Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF) has called on all concerned organisations to discontinue demanding donations and taking “extortions” from public in the name of armed movement from January 15 this year. The MPLF is an umbrella organisation of Manipur’s three major insurgent outfits — the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (Prepak) and the Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF).

A statement issued by the MPLF’s permanent body today said its member-parties have long stopped collection of donations from public in view of...

Imphal, Jan. 1: The Centre’s eagerness to make the NSCN (I-M) leadership feel at home on their return to India has been counterbalanced by the belligerence of Manipur, which today declared that it would not hesitate to arrest the outfit’s general secretary, Thuingaleng Muivah, if he visited the state. Both Nagaland and Assam have withdrawn the arrest warrants against Muivah and NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu to facilitate their return to the country for the next round of peace talks with the Centre.

Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh has, however, refused to make any such concession...

Imphal, December 31: The Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup today afternoon around 3 pm released all the five persons in its custody. The decision to release them was taken after the appeal made by the people of Manipur. The organization has not decided to take back the decision to kill the Education (S) minister Maniruddin Sheikh according to a signed statement by Lanngamba Mangang who issued a signed statement. KYKL's action will depend on the future actions of Maniruddin Sheikh he said. He however warned to all those working in Education (S) not to be involved with corruption. No one should try to get...

Imphal, Dec. 30: Members of the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF) today destroyed a large number of Hindi and pornographic videocassettes and discs, burning them in front of newspersons here.

The outfit also destroyed several bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor.

The RPF militants, under the codename Staforce Division-III, seized the cassettes and VCDs from video libraries in Lilong and the area near the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences here. Staforce had “executed” two drug traffickers who were caught with a kg of heroin a few months back.

The RPF had banned the screening...