New Delhi: The Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) on Monday registered its demand for a separate administration for the Kuki-Zo community of Manipur saying that coexistence with the Meiteis was an "untenable proposition".
"The selective application of justice further reinforces our demand for a separate administration. The ITLF reiterates its call for a separate administration, as it is increasingly apparent that coexistence with the Meiteis, who have driven us out of their valley, subjected us to violence, and attacked our villages, is an untenable proposition," said Ginza Vualzong, ITLF spokesperson to ETV Bharat.
He claimed that the "complicity" of the Manipur government has "emboldened the Meiteis to take the law into their own hands". "Acts such as the burning of the Anglo Kuki War Centenary gate, the destruction of over 20 houses in Kangvai and the killing of a pastor in Phoughakchao on May 3 ignited an ethnic war that lasted for more than five months. The free transfer of more than 6,000 sophisticated weapons and over 5 lakh rounds of ammunition into the hand of Arambai Tenggol and Meetei Leepun further fuelled the aggression against the Kuki-Zo community," Vualzong said.
