The Kuki-Zo Women’s Forum stands against a government that wages war on its own citizens. From sexual violence to mass displacement, the atrocities continue. When justice is denied, resistance becomes our duty. #JusticeForKukiZo
BY PC Bureau
Hundreds of members of the Kuki-Zo Women’s Forum gathered at India Gate in Delhi to mourn thirty-year-old Lalgouthang Singsit, who was shot dead during violence that erupted when protestors attempted to block the Imphal-Dimapur highway on Saturday,
Teary-eyed but defiant, the women raised slogans against injustice, demanding accountability for the violence perpetrated against their people in Manipur.
“In his memory, we stand united. We grieve, we remember. When justice is denied on earth, we make an APPEAL TO HEAVEN,” the Kuki-Zo Women’s Forum declared in a post on X.
Condemning the atrocities perpetrated by Indian Security Forces against peaceful Kuki-Zo women protesters and the killing of unarmed Kuki-Zo civilian Mr Lalgouthang Singsit in Kangpokpi District today, the Kuki Student's Organization Delhi organized a candlelight protest in Delhi… pic.twitter.com/go6PcZZ3fK
— H S Benjamin Mate (@BenjaminMate1) March 8, 2025
In a press release, the KZWF unequivocally condemned the brutal and inhumane assault on Kuki-Zo women and peaceful protestors by the Indian Armed Forces on International Women’s Day, 8th March 2025. On a day meant to honor the resilience and achievements of women, the Government of India instead disgraced itself before the world by unleashing unprovoked violence upon innocent tribal women and unarmed demonstrators.
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The Kuki-Zo Women’s Forum (KZWF) asserts that the Indian Army, acting as the blunt instrument of a government that has lost all moral authority, mercilessly lathi-charged Kuki-Zo women who were protesting for their fundamental rights. These women—unarmed and standing in peaceful defiance—were met not with justice, but with barbarity. As if this brutality was not enough, live bullets were fired upon the demonstrators, killing Lalgun Singsit of Ward No. 2, Keithelmanbi, and critically injuring sixteen others. These are not the actions of a democracy—these are the acts of a repressive regime desperate to silence the truth.
The KZWF declares that this cowardly crackdown is not an isolated incident but part of a long, orchestrated campaign of murder, rape, forced displacement, and destruction against the Kuki-Zo people. For nearly a year, under the very institutions sworn to protect them, Kuki-Zo women have been paraded naked and gang-raped, their villages burned, their men beheaded, their voices drowned by state-sponsored propaganda. And today, as our women stood in rightful struggle, they were met not with justice, but with batons and bullets.
The KZWF asserts that today’s violence is not merely an attack on the Kuki-Zo people but an indictment of India’s collapsing democracy. The world must see this for what it truly is: a systematic ethnic purge masquerading as governance. A state that rewards rapists and murderers while criminalizing its victims cannot call itself just. The so-called guardians of law and order in Manipur have once again proven themselves to be enforcers of an apartheid system that treats Kuki-Zo lives as expendable.
The KZWF declares with unwavering resolve: We will not forget. We will not forgive. No force—no government, no army, no act of state terror—can erase the truth or break the will of a people who refuse to be trampled under the boots of fascism.
The KZWF holds the perpetrators accountable. The blood of our people is on your hands. History will remember your crimes.
