Imphal, June 15: The Manipur Tribal Forum have sought protection via the Indian Army through an Interlocutory Application (IA) filed in the Supreme Court, saying that it cannot rely on the “empty assurances” of the Union of India as both the Centre and the State government “have embarked jointly on a communal agenda for ethnic cleansing” of the Kukis.
The Forum said Kukis are being ethnically cleansed by an armed communal organisation and urged the Apex Court for protection as tribals cannot trust the state police forces.
The Forum argued that despite assurances given by the Solicitor General in the last hearing, no relief was granted so far.
“After the giving of these assurances, over 81 Kukis were killed, 237 churches and 73 administration building/quarter were burnt and 141 villages destroyed and 31,410 Kukis displaced from their homes. The assurances of the authorities are not useful anymore and made in a non-serious fashion and are not even intended to be completed,” the Application read.
Meanwhile, the Forum expressed no confidence in the Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Centre under the head of former Gauhati HC CJ Ajai Lamba and prayed that it be quashed and replaced by a single-member commission comprising former Delhi High Court Chief Justice and Law Commission chairperson AP Shah.
The Forum alleged that “Arambai Tenggol, “a group that has the backing of state machinery” and the Meitei Leepun, “an organisation with Meitei nationalist agenda, are the two groups behind all the attacks”.
The Forum also urged the need to have cold storage and immediate autopsy of piling dead bodies in the State. It also highlighted the inadequacy of the relief camps set in the State.
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