Kukis Oppose Peace March as Manipur Set for Free Movement

HOME Minister Amit Shah's directive to security agencies to restore free movement on all roads in ethnic violence-hit Manipur will come into effect from Saturday even as an influential Kuki-Zo organisation opposed a proposed peace expedition by a conglomerate of 20 Imphal Valley-based organisations.

- PRASANTA MAZUMDAR @ Guwahati

The Committee on Tribal Unity (COTU) said the resolution adopted by the Federations of Civil Society (FOCS) to march into the hill districts of the Kuki-Zo community was tantamount to breaching of buffer zones.

"The idea of free movement purported by Home Minister Amit Shah through the Governor of Manipur is nothing but misplaced information on the current situation and reverberation of radical Meitei narrative which would be unattainable discourse," COTU said in a statement issued on Friday.