Responding to demands by the Kuki-Zo community for a separate administration in Manipur, the United Naga Council on Monday issued a statement vehemently opposing the inclusion of “disputed” territory in the proposed Kuki-Zo administration.
The UNC Manipur said there was no Anglo-Kuki War in 1917-19, calling it a rebellion that ended in massacres of Naga people living in Ukhrul, Chandel, and Tamenglong at the time. The UNC further said that Kuki tribes were “distorting history” in a bid to “legitimise their imagined Kuki homeland within the Naga ancestral homeland”.
The UNC Manipur, which recently rebuked eight of the state’s Naga MLAs for signing a statement with 32 Meitei MLAs, said its statement was a reaction to several representations by Kuki-Zo civil society organisations and MLAs seeking a separate administration. These were sent to leaders in India and abroad.
