Huge fallout against wrongdoers for Sept 19 Nambol ambush ::: Locals stage demonstration :: Kuki Zo Council targets 'Meitei Militant groups' ... says "For decades, Meiteis have exploited & monopolized development funds"

Reports reaching here in Delhi say there have been large scale condemnation of the now infamous Nambol ambush on 'flood relief workers' of Assam Rifles.

Demonstrators termed the assault on Assam Rifles - otherwise known in the region as the 'Friends of the Hill people' - as a cowardly attack. 

Influential Meira Paibi volunteers and leaders staged demonstration at various places.

A large group of women staged sit-in demonstration carrying placards such as - 'We Condemn the attack' 

"We pray our deepest respect to the martyrs and pray for the speedy recovery of the injured," one demonstrator said. 

Another woman protester lamented: "Violence only brings pain - Peace and Justice must prevail". 

                             Rifleman (GD) Ranjeet Singh Kashyap (Bastar, Chhattisgarh) -                                        Martyr 

There are four injured and two Assam Rifles bravehearts Nb Sub (GD) Shyam Gurung (East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya) and  Rifleman (GD) Ranjeet Singh Kashyap (Bastar, Chhattisgarh) made supreme sacrifice.

                        Nb Sub (GD) Shyam Gurung (East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya) 'made                                 supreme sacrifice'

Injured Soldiers include one local Meitei

Ningthoukhongjam Nongthon (48)

S/o N. Ibomcha

Keibi khulen,I/E Dist.

D J Dutta (36)

S/o Lakhiyam Dutta

Assam Lakhimpur

Driver

Hav BK Rai (58)

S/o Birjai Rai 

Sikkim

LP Sangma(46)

S/o L Waitstick  S Momin

Tura

Subashchandra Warrant Officer 

S/o Gundilal

Uttarakhand  

DG Assam Rifles, Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera and all ranks of Assam Rifles paid  solemn tribute to two brave hearts !!

Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) strongly condemned: 

The Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) strongly condemned the cowardly and brutal attack on the convoy of Assam Rifles by suspected militants at Nambol Sabal Leikai in Bishnupur district an area notably not under AFSPA.

The ambush, which claimed the lives of two Assam Rifles personnel and left five others critically injured, once again exposes the violent, anti-national, and secessionist character of the militant groups, it said.

"This savage incident brings back the painful memory of the killing of Colonel Viplav Tripathi, his wife, and young son by Meitei militants in 2021," the statement said.

"Such repeated assaults on India's security forces are not isolated cases but part of a continuing pattern of hostility against the Indian State by armed Meitei groups. 

History has shown time and again that these militants reject the idea of India and thrive on violence and terror.

"What the majority Meitei did to the minority Kuki-Zo community in 2023 further testifies to their inhuman and barbaric nature. 

More than 250 innocent Kuki-Zo lives were taken; women were raped; bodies cut into pieces; over 7,000 homes and 360 places of worship were reduced to ashes; and more than 40,000 people were chased away from their homes. 

These are not mere conflicts but acts of ethnic cleansing. Such atrocities reflect not only the brutality of the Meiteis but also the complete absence of humanity, sympathy, and compassion in their actions."

The statement also said:

"For decades, the Meitei have also exploited and monopolized development funds intended for the tribals of the hills, leaving our people deprived and neglected. 

Now, their project has extended to the systematic expulsion of the Kuki-Zo people from their lands. The cumulative evidence of violence, discrimination, and oppression makes it abundantly clear that peaceful coexistence under the same administrative framework with the Meiteis is no longer possible.

We earnestly urge the Government of India to recognize the gravity of the situation and pave the way for a political settlement at the earliest." 

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