Kuki leader’s meet held

IMPHAL, February 17: Kupi Inpi Manipur (KIM), Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KUMHUR) and Kuki Students’ Organisation (KSO-GHQ) jointly organised a one day Leader’s meet/consultation of the Kuki Communities at Kuki Inn, Imphal on February 16, said a release of Kuki Inpi Manipur.      

According to the release, the consultation meeting was attended by more than 250 delegates who include village chiefs, social leaders, elected members and several civil society organisation leaders. The meeting deeply and seriously deliberated in length about the issues and threats which may endanger the peaceful existence of the Kuki peoples from their ancestral lands, it said.    

“After several hours long deliberation, the leader’s meeting unanimously adopted a resolution ‘that the Kuki people should protect their ancestral lands now and then from any sorts of threats and forces which may annex/endanger our territorial lands and also resolved to preserve our culture and customs in all our inhabited lands. This resolution was adopted in reiterating the resolutions adopted during the National Consultation of the Kuki Communities being held at Classic Hotel, Imphal on March 5, 2010,” it said.