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.
According to reports, the arms and ammunitions were looted by the militants, miscreants and the mobs after the ethnic violence broke out in the state on May 3.
