Within the video, the person alleged 15 NSCN(IM) fighters are coming to Manipur to combat for the Meiteis
Kohima/Imphal/New Delhi:
The most important armed group of the Nagas that has signed a framework settlement with the centre has strongly denied allegations of supplying weapons and sending its cadre to Manipur to assist a specific neighborhood, amid the ethnic violence between the hill-majority Kukis and the valley-majority Meiteis.
The Nationwide Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), or NSCN(IM), in an announcement mentioned a video being shared extensively on social media displaying a person alleging that NSCN(IM) despatched its fighters to assist the Meiteis in Manipur was a “scripted manufacturing by some mischievous company”.
Within the video, the person alleged that 15 well-trained NSCN(IM) fighters are coming to Manipur to affix the Meiteis within the combat towards the Kukis. The Kuki-Zo-Chin tribes have began demanding a separate administration after violence broke out on Could Three throughout a protest towards the Meiteis’ demand for Scheduled Tribes (ST) standing.
The NSCN(IM) mentioned the person within the video has been recognized as H Khosiivei Lovingson Roah, who joined “nationwide service” in October final 12 months and completed his primary army coaching earlier this 12 months.
“He’s a personal within the Naga military posted at Thungbo Brigade. On August 7, 2023, he was granted medical depart for an ear an infection and despatched to Dimapur, however he went lacking since then,” the NSCN(IM) mentioned within the assertion.
NSCN(IM) senior chief HR Shimray within the assertion mentioned the video clip is “evidently a pre-planned and scripted manufacturing of some mischievous company aiming at furthering the mayhem and in addition portray the NSCN in a nasty mild.”
Ethnic violence between the Kukis and Meiteis broke out in Manipur on Could 3
In July this 12 months, six individuals together with an inspector of the Nagaland Police, an armed group chief, and 4 others had been arrested for stealing ammunition from the state police armoury. The ammunition was allegedly to be despatched to neighbouring Manipur. One of many arrested individuals was a frontrunner of the NSCN(IM).
The Nagas and Kukis had fought within the early 1990s over land. Lots of had been killed then.
The NSCN (IM), shaped in 1980, is led by 85-year-old Thuingaleng Muivah; the opposite high chief of the group, Isak Chishi Swu, died at 87 of multi-organ failure. In 1997, the NSCN-IM entered right into a truce with the central authorities for peace and since then has been persevering with dialogue with the centre’s emissaries.
In August 2015, the NSCN-IM signed a framework settlement with the federal government which Prime Minister Narendra Modi described as a “historic” step to usher in peace within the state.