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The Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) has reiterated the request for a national territory for Kuki-Zo tribes successful Manipur.
Insisting that it would beryllium hard for the Kuki-Zos to coexist with the non-tribal Meiteis, the KZC besides warned against resettling the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) belonging to the Meitei assemblage successful the “buffer zone” oregon adjacent to Kuki-Zo areas.
Buffer portion refers to a constrictive portion of land, much than a kilometre wide successful definite stretches, separating the Meitei-dominated Imphal Valley and the surrounding hills inhabited by the Kuki-Zos.
In a memorandum to Home Minister Amit Shah, submitted done the Deputy Commissioner of Churachandpur territory aft a “mass rally” connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026), the KZC apprised him of the “grave, prolonged, and unresolved concerns confronting our radical successful Manipur today”.
It said these issues were existential successful nature, demanding urgent law and governmental involution by the Centre.
The KZC said the taste struggle that broke retired successful Manipur connected May 3, 2023, near much than 250 Kuki-Zos dead, 7,000 destroyed, 360 places of worship desecrated oregon vandalised, and much than 40,000 radical displaced, mostly driven retired of Imphal Valley.
“It is wide perceived and documented that elements of the State authorities machinery were complicit in, oregon failed to prevent, these atrocities. Under specified circumstances, determination exists nary scope whatsoever for the Kuki-Zo radical to proceed nether the aforesaid administration,” the KZC said.
“For astir 3 years, the Kuki-Zo radical person been incapable to entree the Imphal Valley, starring to terrible humanitarian, economic, aesculapian and administrative hardships. Our request for a national territory with legislature is good wrong the ambit of the Constitution of India,” it said, urging Mr. Shah to expedite a governmental solution to guarantee lasting peace, dignity and information for Kuki-Zos.
“Provocative attempt”
The KZC besides drew the Home Minister’s attraction to the “highly delicate and unsafe contented of resettling Meitei IDPs successful buffer portion areas, which poses a superior menace to bid and risks reigniting taste violence”.
It said specified actions had been viewed arsenic nonstop provocations and transportation a precocious imaginable for renewed conflict. “The buffer portion was instituted precisely to forestall confrontation and bloodshed. Any violation, dilution, oregon selective enforcement of this statement undermines nationalist confidence, weakens instrumentality and bid and threatens the fragile peace,” it added.
The KZC further sought enactment against “encroachments owed to incorrect territory and constabulary jurisdiction boundaries” and attempts to halt operation and improvement of inter-village roads successful the Kuki-Zo areas, isolated from protecting Kuki-Zo onshore and properties successful Imphal Valley.
