Kuki-Zo women urge Home Ministry to secure sensitive zones with Central forces
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Our Correspondent
KANGPOKPI, Apr 26: Upon learning of the reported Home Ministry's decision to divert central security forces from sensitive zones to patrol highways, a large number of Kuki-Zo women flooded the streets of Gamgiphai, demanding a swift reversal of the Ministry's stance.
On inquiry, it was found that there was no official notification letter from the Home Ministry. However, the Kuki-Zo women indicated that certain district officials verbally communicated the decision made by the Home Ministry.
One of the Kuki-Zo women leaders underscored the pivotal role played by central security forces in upholding safety and tranquility in the sensitive zones while voicing her perplexity regarding Union Home Minister Amit Shah's abrupt choice to withdraw these crucial forces.
She also raised the question why the Home Minister had chosen to withdraw central security forces from sensitive zones despite the ongoing tense situation.
In clear defiance of the alleged decision by the Home Ministry, the Kuki-Zo women voiced their refusal to accept it and urged the Ministry to reconsider its stance. Meanwhile, the Committee on Tribal Unity, or the CoTU, Sadar Hills also backed the Kuki-Zo women's call for the Home Ministry to review its decision to deploy central forces from sensitive zones to patrol the highway.
Ng Lun Kipgen, CoTU's Media Cell Coordinator while strongly condemning the recent bomb blast at a bridge near Saparmeina pointed out that the creation of sensitive zone and the deployment of Central security forces in the border regions between the Kuki-Zo community in the Hills and the Meitei community in the valley served as a crucial mechanism to quell tensions and prevent conflicts between these two adversarial groups. However, it is also an uncalled decision by the Home Ministry to delegate some of these forces from the sensitive zones to manned the Asian Highways/ NH 2 with regards to the recent blast, will nullify the principle objective to deter further escalation of conflict between the two warring communities, he added.
KANGPOKPI, Apr 26: Upon learning of the reported Home Ministry's decision to divert central security forces from sensitive zones to patrol highways, a large number of Kuki-Zo women flooded the streets of Gamgiphai, demanding a swift reversal of the Ministry's stance.
On inquiry, it was found that there was no official notification letter from the Home Ministry. However, the Kuki-Zo women indicated that certain district officials verbally communicated the decision made by the Home Ministry.
One of the Kuki-Zo women leaders underscored the pivotal role played by central security forces in upholding safety and tranquility in the sensitive zones while voicing her perplexity regarding Union Home Minister Amit Shah's abrupt choice to withdraw these crucial forces.
She also raised the question why the Home Minister had chosen to withdraw central security forces from sensitive zones despite the ongoing tense situation.
In clear defiance of the alleged decision by the Home Ministry, the Kuki-Zo women voiced their refusal to accept it and urged the Ministry to reconsider its stance. Meanwhile, the Committee on Tribal Unity, or the CoTU, Sadar Hills also backed the Kuki-Zo women's call for the Home Ministry to review its decision to deploy central forces from sensitive zones to patrol the highway.
Ng Lun Kipgen, CoTU's Media Cell Coordinator while strongly condemning the recent bomb blast at a bridge near Saparmeina pointed out that the creation of sensitive zone and the deployment of Central security forces in the border regions between the Kuki-Zo community in the Hills and the Meitei community in the valley served as a crucial mechanism to quell tensions and prevent conflicts between these two adversarial groups. However, it is also an uncalled decision by the Home Ministry to delegate some of these forces from the sensitive zones to manned the Asian Highways/ NH 2 with regards to the recent blast, will nullify the principle objective to deter further escalation of conflict between the two warring communities, he added.