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After a two-day reappraisal of the operations of Meitei and Kuki-Zo insurgent groups, officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Manipur authorities have warned the outfits that they volition look enactment if they interruption crushed rules, a senior government official told The Hindu. The groups were asked to cheque extortion and confine their cadres successful their designated camps.
On January 13, a peace monitoring committee chaired by Manipur Chief Secretary Puneet Kumar Goel reviewed the presumption of the ceasefire statement with the United National Liberation Front–Pambei faction (UNLF-P), in Imphal. The UNLF is the oldest equipped Meitei insurgent radical which, for the archetypal time, signed a bid statement with the MHA and the Manipur authorities connected November 29, 2023, months aft taste unit erupted successful the State connected May 3 the aforesaid year. The group operates from Myanmar and advocates for the secession of Manipur from India.
The authoritative said that UNLF-P representatives who attended the gathering were asked to instrumentality looted constabulary weapons by the extremity of April, with each existing weapons successful the hands of their cadres, except those required for campy security, to be deposited in armouries by adjacent week. The radical was asked to confine its cadres successful their camps, verify their identity, and trim their strength from the existing 2,100 cadres to 1,200. When the bid pact was signed successful 2023, astir 80 cadres had surrendered with 31 weapons, and a fewer much laid down their arms subsequently.
Ground rules review
On January 14, in Guwahati, a joint monitoring radical comprising A.K. Mishra, the MHA’s Northeast Adviser, officials from the Intelligence Bureau (IB), and the Manipur government reviewed the crushed rules for Kuki-Zo insurgent groups, the United People’s Front and Kuki National Organisation (KNO), who are successful a suspension of operations (SoO) pact with the government.
The meetings were held amid indications that an elected authorities volition soon instrumentality to Manipur. The State was placed nether President’s Rule connected February 13, 2025.
It was reiterated to the SoO groups that they must relocate seven designated camps away from areas susceptible to conflict. The MHA and State government had signed a fresh SoO agreement with the Kuki-Zo insurgent groups connected September 4, 2025, with renegotiated crushed rules. The archetypal specified statement was signed in 2008 but the Manipur authorities had refused its yearly renewal on February 29, 2024.
Restoring fashionable government
“The 2 meetings centred around enforcement of crushed rules, relocation of camps, infrastructure astatine camps, surrender of weapons, verification of cadres, control of extortion activities. Groups person been warned of enactment if a usurpation of crushed rules is reported,” said the official.
Mr. Mishra besides met Kuki-Zo Council chairman Henlianthang Thanglet at Chuarachandpur on January 13 to question the civilian nine group’s practice successful the restoration of a fashionable government.
“It was a one-hour meeting. Mr. Mishra was here to sermon information of Kuki-Zo legislators successful the fashionable government. We conveyed the sentiments of the radical who are not in favour of them joining the authorities arsenic our demands for a abstracted administration have not been addressed. It is upto the legislators now,” Mr. Thanglet said.
There are ten Kuki-Zo MLAS successful the 60-member Manipur Assembly, including 7 Kuki-Zo legislators from the BJP.
