Imphal: The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), a Meitei group, called on the Centre to install NRC throughout the state in order to detect illegal immigration from Myanmar on Sunday.
In order to prevent illegal immigration and the trafficking of weapons and drugs, the COCOMI advised the government to finish fencing the India-Myanmar border as soon as possible.
“Despite fresh bombings at Kadangband earlier this month, the Centre has done nothing. This suggests that the state’s citizens are not regarded as national citizens,” stated Somendro Thokchom, the organization’s coordinator.
On January 14, suspected militants carried out a bombing in the Kadangband neighbourhood of the Imphal West district of Manipur.
“This conflict will end only when the Centre takes definite action and initiates a military crackdown against Kuki militants,” Mr. Thokchom told reporters.
The coalition of several civil society organisations based in Imphal also called on the government to act against Kuki terrorists in order to put an end to the state’s prolonged conflict, which has killed over 250 people and left thousands homeless.
“In order to identify illegal immigrants, Manipur must implement the NRC. Manipur should not be the sole location of refugee detention camps for Myanmarese. The state’s land resources are few. Additionally, the camps ought to be established in other states,” Mr. Thokchom stated.
According to him, the Centre needs to finish border fencing along the Myanmar border as soon as possible in order to stop illegal immigration and the flow of weapons and drugs from the neighbouring nation.
“Illegal immigration, arms and drugs smuggling from Myanmar into Manipur remain core issues of the conflict in the state,” he stated.
“The state’s circumstances have scarcely improved. There are no indications that anything is being done. The disappearance of a guy from an army camp at Leimakhong in Kangpokpi district and the murder of three women and three children by Kuki and Hmar insurgents in Jiribam district in November of last year are two examples of the numerous instances that have not been resolved,” he continued.
