Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi:
People from all communities have been robbed in Manipur and illegally surrendered arms, when Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla requested them to do so within seven days. Any person with illegal and looted weapons remembers the time limit, will have to face strict action.
Police said in a statement that some members of the cookie-tribes today collects firearms in the Assam Rifles and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
Fire-scriptures include M16, AK series, Insas, self-loading rifles, and mortar rounds.
Police said that some members of the Metei community also came forward and submitted firearms for the police in the Imphal Valley.
In Kaking district, police found some weapons including .303 rifle, bulletproof waste and ammunition.
In Saperamina in Kangpokpi district, people gathered firearms and ammunition along with AK series and INS Assault Rifle to the officer in charge of the local police station.
In response to the appeal made by the Honorable Governor, Manipur on 20.02.2025, individuals were urged to surrender illegal weapons and ammunition, many weapons and related items were handed over to the authorities –
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Police said in a statement that the surrender fire scriptures in Charachandpur, 65 km from the state capital Imphal, were shown to reporters in 27 Assam Rifles camps today.
He said that this is the first step towards de-lower society and creating a safe and safe environment where regular activities can be promoted.
In any movement towards a normal life, de-viralization is always the first step, the statement states.
Together D-Vyarization
The Governor’s call is important for surrendering of arms looted by people of both warning communities since being under the rule of the state. Cookie and Meteyi Civil Society Organizations are asking the Center to ensure simultaneous disarmament due to the serious disadvantage of trust between the two sides – the two accuse each other of attacking the villages in the foothills, where the valley and the hills meet Are.
On May 3, 2023, between the Valley-Chief Metei community and more than a dozen different tribes, among more than a dozen different tribes known as the cookie, approximate from police stations and forces in Manipur 6,000 firearms were looted. ,
Several members of the Valley-Dominant Metei Milesia Arambai Teengol (AT) have been nominated in police arsenal robbery cases. However, AT says that it is a cultural organization that has been forced to take up arms as village defense volunteers in the early days of ethnic violence, which has made weapons in the foothills coming under the attacks of cookie terrorists. The villages were led.
Cookie Civil Society groups have accused the attacks launched on their villages with inter-district borders after the first wave of clashes in May 2023, which forced the cookie tribes to take up arms and make the defense forces of the village, Those who were trained and armed by terrorists. A type of ceasefire (suspension of operation, or soo, agreement) with the Center and the state was signed.
‘VOUTERES’ in Manipur
While the two sides call their armed individuals “volunteers”, a similar feature is the weapons they use-A and M Series Assault Rifle, Rocket-Propeld Grenade, Crned and Military Grade Mortar, High-And Snipper Rifle, Monitoring Drone, etc.
Miti terrorist groups like almost extinct PLA, CECL and KCP were banned in Manipur for the last 10 years, which had also returned from Myanmar after May 2023 and due to low grip of janta in areas where some remaining miteis Militants camped.
The United National Liberation Front (Pambi), or UNLF (P) is the only Meitei terrorist group that signed a ceasefire with the central and state government like a SOO.
Cookie-Jo tribes are about two dozen rebel groups under two umbrellas organizations, called the Cookie National Organization (KNO) and the United People’s Front (UPF). The KNO and UPF have signed the controversial Sooo agreement, whose terms include rebels and their weapons in lock storage, included to monitor regularly. Many of them face allegations of participating in the Manipur violence.
Officers in Manipur – who came under the President’s rule after the resignation of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and his ministers of his ministers – all communities are requested to neutralize so that normal life can be resumed, and internally Displaced people can return home, while talks can go between leaders.
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