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Manipur urges Mizoram CM Lalduhoma to be a ‘good neighbour’, senses ‘greater agenda’ | Latest News India

Manipur urges Mizoram CM Lalduhoma to be a ‘good neighbour’, senses ‘greater agenda’ | Latest News India

The Manipur government on Friday night hit out at Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma, asking him to show “better statesmanship” by being a “good neighbour” rather than stoking the fire of “hatred and division” through “unwarranted comments”. Manipur CM N Biren Singh (ANI)(HT_PRINT) In a statement, the state government said that India must be wary of the “greater agenda of carving a Kuki-Chin Christian nation” out of contiguous areas of Myanmar, India and Bangladesh, played out over decades of meticulous planning. It said it will not allow fragmentation of Northeast India at the behest of foreign vested interests, or “secessionist interests as openly espoused by the Mizoram CM”. “Mizoram CM reveals his democratic credentials by espousing imposition of President’s Rule in Manipur while opposing boundary fencing of the Indo-Myanmar international border. He also calls for reunification of the Zo people. He also talks about possibility of armed militias in Manipur pointing their guns at Delhi and need for disarming, and sincere negotiations with hill leaders,” it said. The Manipur government’s statement came in the backdrop of …

3 Children, 3 Women Missing After 10 Suspected Kuki Militants Killed In Jiribam Manipur Encounter

3 Children, 3 Women Missing After 10 Suspected Kuki Militants Killed In Jiribam Manipur Encounter

The 3 women and 3 children missing from Manipur’s Jiribam Imphal: Three children and three women are missing from Manipur’s Jiribam since yesterday after an encounter broke out between suspected Kuki insurgents and the security forces. The Manipur Police in a press conference today said the 10 killed in the encounter had enough firepower to create chaos in the affected area in Jiribam, near the border with Assam. “Security forces have launched an operation to search for the missing people. They are three women and three children. The Assam Rifles, Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police Force will retaliate if fired upon,” a senior Manipur Police officer told reporters in the state capital Imphal today. The police officer said a total of 13 internally displaced people were reported missing yesterday from Jiribam. Two have been found dead, five have been traced, and six are missing, the officer said. The two bodies were of two senior citizens from the Meitei community. Both were found inside a structure that was set on fire by the …

6 Killed In Fresh Manipur Violence, Bunkers Destroyed, Choppers On Patrol

Violence continued in Manipur for the second day on Saturday after an elderly Meitei man was killed Imphal/New Delhi: Six people were killed in fresh violence this morning in Manipur’s Jiribam district, the police said. Suspected Kuki insurgents attacked Nungchappi village in the district 229 km from the state capital Imphal, killing a 63-year-old man identified as Yurembam Kulendra Singha. The attack came a day after an elderly man from the valley-dominant Meitei community, who was offering prayers, was killed in a rocket-propelled bomb attack by Kuki insurgents in Manipur’s Moirang town, according to the police. The five others were killed in a gunfight between armed groups of the Meitei community and the hill-dominant Kuki tribes, sources said. These groups call themselves “village defence volunteers”. The Jiribam Superintendent of Police (SP) and a police team rushed to the area, but were fired at, the police said in the statement, adding the team “retaliated strongly and controlled the firing.” In Imphal, the Inspector General of Police (Intelligence) K Kabib today told reporters, “… Yesterday, some Kuki …