IMPHAL, Sept 12 NNN: Kukis are all set to observe the Kuki Black Day on Friday in New Delhi, Assam, Manipur and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the Kuki National Front (KNF-N) has cautioned that its dawn to dusk bandh on September 13 marking the Kuki Black Day will be enforced strictly. The KNF-N asked those participating the Kuki Black Day to attached a black flag each in their vehicles and paste print-outs in the vehicles with the distinations written in it.
Meanwhile, the Kuki Students’ Organisation, Delhi said will observe the ‘Kuki Black Day’ on the September 13. The event will be observed with a peaceful and silent candlelight march of over 500 students at Jantar Mantar at 5pm.
“This day of mass mourning marks the commemoration of the inhuman massacre of over 900 innocent Kukis between 1992 and 1995 by the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isaac-Muivah) or more popularly known as NSCN-IM,” the KSO-Delhi said. According to the KSO-Delhi, this incident has been termed differently by different media and writers. “The BBC World termed it as ‘Ethnic Cleansing by Naga Separatist’. CNN had covered it as ‘Genocide’. PhannoujamTarapot in his book ‘Manipur Bleeding’ referred to the episode as Ethnic Cleansing and so does Pradip Phanjoubam in his book, ‘Where the Sun rises when shadows falls.
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