The Director General of Police (DGP) of Manipur has requested the Manipur High Court to close the contempt case, where it was accused of failing to implement an earlier order to maintain status quo at a proposed burial site for 35 Kuki-Zomi people killed in the four-month-long ethnic conflict in the State.
A month ago, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) and Joint Philanthropic Organizations (JPO) decided to mark three months of the continuing ethnic conflict by burying 35 of the Kuki-Zomi people killed till then. The proposed site was at S. Booljang in Haolai Khopi village located at the edge of Churachandpur and Bishnupur districts.
However, this site also houses a State government sericulture farm.
