DIMAPUR/IMPHAL, Aug 24 NNN : The Government of India has assured the Bodo leaders today that talks on the Bodoland issue will be held on September 4 and following this leaders of the Bodoland and Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) who were on indefinite hunger strike since August 22 in Assam’s Kokrajhar, have suspended their agitation today.
The Kuki and the Bodo leaders had engaged in the joint agitation at Kokrajhar demanding a Kuki state in Manipur and Bodoland in Assam.
According to KSDC leaders, the Bodo leaders have assured to be with the movement taken up by the KSDC no matter what.
Meanwhile, KSDC information secretary George Guite in his paper said, “After the occupation of southern Kuki country in the 1890s the erstwhile imaginary line between Tipaimukh and Numsaeelung River which have become the bone of contention between the Kukis and Manipur state was now immediately connected by a clearly demarcated line of boundary by Manipur Chin Boundary Commissions in 1893-94.”
George Guite was presenting a paper theming, “History of the kuki home-land movement and ideology and strategies of kuki State movement,’ during a one-day consultative meeting held today in Churachandpur at KIC Complex, on the current political scenario of the Kukis in Manipur.
In his lengthy paper, the KSDC leader continued, “It formed the boundary between Manipur and the newly created Chin Hills District.
Manipur-Lushai Hills and Chin Hills-Lushai Hills were also similarly demarcated. The three lines emerged, as it went on, one of the most formidable “iron curtain” that divided not only two sovereign countries, India and Burma, but more importantly divided the Kuki people into three-halves. Thus, the whole Kuki country was crisscrossed by the new boundary regime.
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