The three-member Commission of Inquiry (CoI) notified by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to probe the ethnic violence in Manipur has received around 11,000 affidavits, a senior government official told The Hindu.
The CoI had in November 2023 asked members of the public to submit “statement, allegation or complaint” in the form of an affidavit. The majority of the affidavits have been filed by individuals who were affected by the violence, and a few of them have been filed by civil society groups from hill and valley areas.
The Commission set up help desks at relief camps to encourage people to file the affidavits. “The Commission made all the arrangements, from notaries to oath commissioners. People had to narrate their complaint and it was typed by the staff at the help desks; they did not have to pay a single penny,” the official said.
