“We are ready for peace talks... awaiting a response...,” said Philem Rohan Singh, a traveller and activist from Manipur, in Chennai on Friday, in a bid to put an end to the four-month communal unrest between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo tribes in the north-eastern State.
Pitching to be a representative of both sides being a Christian by religion and Meitei by ethnicity, he told presspersons that both sides -- Kuki-Zo blaming the Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh who is of the Meitei community for inaction, and the Meitei, the 10 MLAs, of the other community, who are demanding a separate administration, were indulging in a blame game.
The press conference was held by an organisation called the Chennai Manipuri Community. He claimed that there had been no history of wars or clashes waged by the Meitei community since 1892. Before that, there was the Anglo-Manipur War or Manipuri Rebellion of 1891, he said.
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