Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity urges Centre not to hold any talks with Kuki militant groups

The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), valley based organisation of the Meitei community, on Tuesday urged the Centre not to hold any talks with Kuki militant groups.

They claimed that members of those outfits are responsible for the current turmoil in the state and their cadres are “foreigners”.

The Zomi Council Steering Committee (ZCSC), an organisation advocating the cause of nine Kuki-Zomi tribes of Manipur, on Tuesday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi' for a permanent solution of the ethnic crisis of Manipur and demanded imposition of President's Rule in the state.


COCOMI and many other Manipur organisations are totally against it,” COCOMI Convenor Jitendra Ningomba told the media in Delhi.

COCOMI in support of its demand of maintaining the territorial integrity of Manipur they would organise a rally in the state on July 29.

The COCOMI leaders claimed that Director of Intelligence Bureau reported 1,25,000 Acres of hill areas in northeast region are under poppy cultivation, while about 650 MT of Opium produced annually from Manipur hill areas of Kuki dominated areas, Rs 50,000 crore to Rs 65,000 crore income annually.

“These areas are protected and managed by armed Chin-Kuki Militants,” the COCOMI leaders stated.