Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the members of the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an influential Meitei civil society group, on Friday and urged them to initiate dialogue with responsible Kuki leaders for “peace-building,” the outfit said.
Meanwhile, 10 legislators from the Kuki-Zo-Hmar communities in Manipur said on Friday that they had not been in touch with Chief Minister N. Biren Singh since violence erupted in the State on May 3. One of them, Textiles and Commerce Minister Nemcha Kipgen, wrote to the Manipur Speaker that she had been advised by security professionals to refrain from attending the session on August 29 due to the “volatile law and order situation in Imphal”.
Editorial | Festering wounds: On Manipur’s elusive peace
