As many as 50 students belonging to the Kuki-Zo tribe studying at NIT Manipur, located at Langol in Imphal, have not been able to rejoin classes even after their classes began on July 27, 2023.
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.
Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, his deputy Tawnluia, several ministers, and many MLAs of the state cutting across party lines took part in the massive ‘Solidarity March’ in Aizawl.
CoTU had earlier served a 48-hour ultimatum to the Central government to book all the culprits involved in the parading of the Kuki-Zo women naked and repeatedly molested before committing the heinous crime of gang-raped on May 4.
