The Kuki rights body warns of a healthcare collapse in hill districts, calling it a violation of Article 21 of the Constitution and international human rights law.
BY PC Bureau
September 12 – The Kuki Organization for Human Rights Trust (KOHUR) has accused the Government of India and the Manipur administration of “betrayal, negligence, and complicity” in the ongoing conflict, following the announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ₹8,547 crore development package for the state.
In a strongly worded statement, KOHUR said the allocations—concentrated largely in the Imphal Valley—reflect “systemic exclusion” of the Kuki-Zo community, which has borne the brunt of ethnic violence since May 2023. The group claimed that over 50,000 Kuki-Zo people remain displaced, 350 villages have been destroyed, and hundreds of churches desecrated, yet “the architects of these crimes continue to enjoy impunity.”
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Calling the package “a deliberate affront to victims,” KOHUR criticized the absence of relief, rehabilitation, or livelihood projects for internally displaced persons. “This is not an administrative lapse but an act of governance weaponized against a persecuted minority,” the statement read.
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The rights body also highlighted a collapse of healthcare in hill districts, citing shortages of medicines, doctors, and functioning hospitals. It warned that denial of healthcare amounted to a violation of Article 21 of the Constitution and India’s international human rights obligations.
KOHUR further accused the government of shielding those allegedly responsible for instigating violence, including former Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and Rajya Sabha MP Maharaja Sanajaoba. “This is not inertia—it is calculated impunity,” the release said, demanding both procedural and political justice.
Urging the Prime Minister to reconsider his planned visit to Churachandpur, the organization cautioned that without a clear announcement of separate administration for Kuki-Zo areas, the trip would be “meaningless and dangerously provocative.”
“For sixteen months, our people have endured displacement, violence, and neglect. Unless justice is delivered, the only option left is to intensify the demand for a separate future,” the statement warned.
KOHUR concluded by declaring that justice delayed is justice denied, and that the time had come for the Prime Minister to act “not as a politician, but as a statesman.”
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