DIMAPUR — Kuki Inpi Nagaland (KIN) has expressed pain to learn about the atrocities committed upon the Kuki people in Manipur by the majority Meitei community.
“Vandalism, kidnapping, torture, killings, burning down of villages, destroying and burning of churches in the capital city Imphal, uprooting of thousands of citizens from their homes and herding them like animals is too painful and ugly for human beings to commit on other human beings. Desecration of churches, burning and razing them to the ground is totally against the Constitution of India and unacceptable by any civilised society. We find it very shocking and painful beyond words,” stated a KIN press release issued by its president, L Singsit, and secretary in-charge of media cell, Lallenmang Singson.
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=1]The organisation appealed to every civilised person to condemn such brutality in the strongest terms as it believe that it was not the way to settle differences in the civilised world however justified one might feel.
Stating that the majority Meitei community and the tribals had been living together in peace and harmony, as neighbours and one citizen, since time immemorial and would continue to stay and live together in the future too, it pointed out that targeting and victimising a particular group of people would not solve anything.
It, therefore, appealed to all right-thinking people to shun violence and sit down together to sort out any differences saying, “Hatred begets hatred, and violence begets violence. It doesn't benefit anybody.”
It further appealed to the authorities to bring the situation to normalcy as early as possible and ensure that no more precious lives are lost in the state.