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The Assam authorities connected Sunday (March 15, 2026) signed a memorandum of colony with 3 Kuki extremist groups arsenic good arsenic a Hmar group.
The organisations progressive are the Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic (HPC-D), United Kukigam Defence Army (UKDA), Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), and the Kuki Liberation Organisation (KLO), which is besides known arsenic the Kuki Liberation Army. The members of each these groups had laid down their arms successful 2012.
Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu, successful whose beingness the memorandum of colony was inked, said the woody envisages the enactment of a Hmar Welfare Development Council and a Kuki Welfare Development Council successful the Hmar and Kuki-dominated areas of Assam, respectively.
Tripartite talks
“A Suspension of Operations was signed betwixt the State authorities and these groups aft they gave up arms. Thereafter, respective rounds of tripartite talks involving the Centre led to the memorandum of settlement,” a elder serviceman of Assam’s Home and Political Department said.
He said that the colony process was accelerated successful the past fewer months arsenic an inaugural of bid and tranquillity successful the State and to fulfil the aspirations of some communities.
“Each improvement assembly volition comprise a chairman, lawman chairman, main enforcement member, enforcement members, and members nominated by the Assam government. Both councils volition beryllium headquartered successful Guwahati, and their budgets volition beryllium prepared according to their requirements submitted to the Transformation and Development Department,” the serviceman said.
Rehabilitation measures
Mr. Pegu said that the State authorities would instrumentality due measures to rehabilitate the cadres of the equipped groups successful accordance with the existing procedure. “The authorities volition besides compensate household members of the cadres who mislaid their lives during their equipped struggle,” helium said.
The KLO, KRA, HPC-D, and UKDA were established successful 1992, 2000, 2003, and 2010, respectively.
The authorities claimed that the memorandum of colony with the Hmar and Kuki groups has brought the taste militancy contented successful Assam to an end. It added that much than 9,000 cadres of respective extremist groups, including those of the Bodo, Karbi, and Adivasi communities, person been rehabilitated during the past fewer years.
Together, these groups person deposited 1,012 firearms, 25,488 rounds of ammunition, and 34 grenades, the authorities said.
