COCOMI debunks EU’s resolution on Manipur; Says the present crisis is not a religious conflict

The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) on Sunday said there is no religious angle to the violence in Manipur that erupted on May 3 between immigrant Chin-Kuki narco-terrorist groups and the indigenous Meitei community.

The body has asked the European Parliament not to let Manipur become the “new Golden Triangle” of drug trade by projecting the violence between what it called “immigrant Chin-Kuki narco-terrorists” and indigenous Meitei people in the State as a religious conflict. The Golden Triangle refers to one of the biggest poppy-growing and drug-trafficking corridors in the world straddling China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand.

The body, however, lauded the European Parliament for passing the first-ever resolution on Manipur, which it said was significant in view of the “deafening silence” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the ongoing violence in the State.

“However, it is regrettable to note that the core issue of narco-terrorism, which is fuelling the conflict, seems to have been omitted from the resolution you have adopted. Your resolutions were guided by a wrong and misleading perspective which made you arrive at a flawed understanding of the issue in Manipur as a conflict between Christian minority and majority Meetei Hindu,” COCOMI coordinator Jeetendra Ningomba wrote.

The Kukis, a group of tribes, are the third largest community in Manipur after the non-tribal Meiteis and the tribal Nagas. The ethnically-related Chins are primarily from Myanmar, many of whom have allegedly settled down illegally in Manipur over the decades.

In a letter to Roberta Metsola, the president of the Strasbourg-based EP on July 23, the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) rejected the opinion of the members of the EU, it said was derived from a web of lies fed by vested interest groups batting for the narco-terrorists.

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