Kuki organisations express disappointment over SC Panel advising Manipur Government to dispose of unclaimed dead bodies
Kuki bodies have expressed disappointment over the Supreme Court Panel advising the Manipur Government to identify dead bodies and dispose of unclaimed bodies respectfully and urged the committee to reconsider its stances looking into the ground reality.
A three-member committee constituted by the Supreme Court to look into the violence in Manipur had recently advised the Manipur government to publish a list of those who have died, and if no one comes to claim the bodies, to dispose of them in a “respectable manner.”
The Kuki Inpi Manipur, the apex body of the Kuki tribes and the Kuki Students' Organization-General Headquarters stated that it is pertinent to recognize that the state of Manipur has been clearly separated on ethnic lines.
Janghaolun Haokip, the Information and Publicity Secretary of the apex of the Kuki tribes said that in fact, the impracticality of a Kuki-Zo traveling to a Meitei-dominated area and vice versa is an open secret that belittles the Committee's advisory itself and therefore, any effort to identify and claim dead bodies amidst the unprecedented conflict in the state, except by a powerful committee deputed by the central government would not only be futile but senseless.
He continued that it is not a secret that various Kuki-Zo organizations have consistently requested the central government for the dead bodies of the Kuki-Zo people to be transported to their native places so that a proper funeral could be held for the deceased while adding that it is therefore imperative that the central government should ensure that the mortal remains of the Kuki-Zo people, who were killed by the Meiteis in collusion with the state government, be transported back to their native places so that a proper
