Around 100 Kuki-Zo women across the district congregated at Gamgiphai this afternoon to launch the round-the-clock sit-in protest in the presence of the Committee on Tribal Unity Sadar Hills Kangpokpi leaders.
The two tribal Kuki-Zo bodies urged the Governor of Manipur for a protracted action by declaring all the valley districts as "Disturbed Areas" and re-impose AFSPA in all the districts under the 19 police stations to restore law and order in the state.
The combined security forces in Manipur recovered seven looted arms and 81 different types of ammunition from Imphal East, Kangpokpi, and Tengnoupal districts on Monday, the police said.
As many as ten thousand Kuki-Zo women excluding the menfolk across the Kangpokpi district, as per the attendance record, participated in the sit-in-protest held by the Kuki-Zo women of Kangpokpi district under the aegis of CoTU's Women Wing.
Renowned Indian Marxist politician Brinda Karat, part of a three-member delegation of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), has castigated the BJP and RSS, blaming them for transforming "Beautiful Manipur" into "Mayhem Manipur" through their divisive politics.
The Kuki-Zo people across Kangpokpi district under the aegis of Kangpokpi district Tribal Churches Leaders Fellowship prayed together for their demand of Separate Administration at the earliest.
A CoTU leader said that the dawn-to-dusk total shutdown was observed to mark the three-month-long violence and to commemorate the departed Kuki-Zo souls in the violence.
