First Kuki village in Churachandpur resettled 3 years after conflict began

Guwahati

The archetypal Kuki colony successful Manipur’s Churachandpur territory was resettled connected Thursday (May 28, 2026) aft 3 years, but lone the males person returned from a alleviation camp, portion their families proceed to unrecorded there.

Khodang, a colony adjacent the “buffer zone”, is adjacent to wherever the Churachandpur territory meets the Imphal Valley’s Bishnupur and Kakching districts. A portion of onshore of varying width separating the Meitei-majority vale from the surrounding Kuki-dominated hills is referred to arsenic the buffer zone.

Some 200 radical of Khodang had fled deeper wrong the Churachandpur territory aft the taste struggle betwixt the Kuki-Zo and Meitei radical broke retired connected May 3, 2023.

The territory medication helped successful the resettlement process. Local MLA Paolienlal Haokip chopped a ribbon to inaugurate the colony for habitation.

M. Sonsei Haokip, the Khodang colony secretary, said the villagers fled and took refuge successful a alleviation campy successful Churachandpur, the territory headquarters, erstwhile a mob acceptable astir of the houses ablaze.

“We person 45 families here. We rebuilt our houses with ₹1.7 lakh, which the authorities provided to each family,” helium told journalists.

He said lone the antheral members of a fewer families person returned to inhabit their new-look homes. The others, including women and children, would instrumentality gradually.

The taste unit near much than 260 radical dormant and an estimated 62,000 others internally displaced. Many, mostly those who fled from villages adjacent the “buffer zone”, proceed to beryllium successful the alleviation camps.