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Manipur: Kuki-Zo MLAs request PM Modi to retain Assam Rifles in sensitive areas

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August 3, 2024
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IMPHAL: Ten Kuki-Zo MLAs have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought his intervention to ensure Assam Rifles remain stationed in sensitive areas of strife-torn Manipur.

They expressed concern, arguing that replacing Assam Rifles with CRPF could escalate violence due to the former’s crucial understanding of the local terrain and culture.

In the letter, the MLAs said that when the Centre was working to end the conflict, removing the Assam Rifles and replacing it with a new force “with no comparable knowledge of the terrain or the people” could result in an escalation of violence.

The letter came amid reports that two battalions of Assam Rifles deployed in Kangvai and Kangpokpi would be replaced by CRPF.

The MLAs lauded the Assam Rifles as a “neutral force” and the purported move to replace it with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) as a “sinister design”.

“We have come to learn that there is a plan to withdraw 9th Bn and 22nd Battalion of AR from their current sensitive deployment in Kangvai and Kangpokpi.

This decision to replace the AR battalions with CRPF at this critical juncture is nothing but a sinister design,” the legislators said in a memorandum.

“It is pertinent to cite that the unbiased service of Assam Rifles in the fringe areas has been obviously instrumental in the prevention of escalation of violence to date.

The role played by AR in the maintenance of law and order is absolutely neutral,” the memorandum said.

“The Assam Rifles has the most experience among central armed police forces in Manipur with unparalleled knowledge of the local populace, both Kuki-Zo tribals and Meiteis.

Their understanding of the culture and geopolitical sensitivities of the region has been crucial in fostering an environment of peace,” the letter said.

“Under the prevailing circumstances, in any eventuality of 9th Bn and 22nd Bn AR is to be shifted out, it is vehemently appealed that they may be replaced by other battalions of AR,” it added.

More than 200 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kuki-Zo groups since May last year.

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