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Days after clashes between Manipurs Kuki-Zomi tribes and the majority Meitei community left more than 70 people dead, the states 10 Kuki-Zomi MLAs demanded a separate administration under the Constitution, saying our people can no longer exist under Manipur [and] to live amidst the Meiteis again is as good as a death...
While Biren has stressed that the territorial integrity of Manipur will be protected, the ethnic clashes have led to the resurfacing of the demand for a separate administration, which had subsided following peace negotiations between Kuki-Zomi insurgent groups and the government...
The territory of Kukiland included the Sadar Hills (which surround the Imphal valley on three sides), the Kuki-dominated Churachandpur district, Chandel, which has a mix of Kuki and Naga populations, and even parts of Naga-dominated Tamenglong and Ukhrul...
Some Kuki-Zomi people, especially the insurgent groups, contest the dominant narrative that their ancestors were brought from the Kuki-Chin hills of Burma by the British political agent and settled around the Imphal valley to protect the Manipur kingdom from the plundering Naga raiders of the north..
In India, the Kuki homeland included the hill districts of Manipur, including the Naga areas, Kanjang, Akhen, Phek, and parts of Dimapur in Nagaland, Karbi-Anglong, North Cachar Hills, and Halflong in Assam, and Tripura, as well as parts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh...
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