New Delhi:
A woman from the Metei community of Manipur, who had explosives at home in Charachandpur, met a top judicial officer of the National Legal Services Authority (Nalsa) in Delhi, demanding relief and legal aid for internal displaced people in the border state.
43 -year -old Naorem Rosita Devi, who is staying in a relief camp with her husband and three children in Bishanupur district, in a letter to the Center and some union ministries described the status of the internal displaced people of the Meteyi community and what kind of help they need.
Nalsa responded to his letter, after which he and two other displaced people along with relief volunteers met SC Mungate, the member secretary of Nalsa in the national capital. Ms. Devi appealed to 20 points to help the displaced people with ethnic clashes that started about two years ago.
Ms. Devi said that Shri Mungate will raise 20 points in a meeting with Supreme Court Judge Justice Bra Gavai.
Justice Gawai is also the executive chairman of Nalsa. He led a team of Supreme Court judges On a trip to Manipur Where they met the people living in relief camps internally displaced people. Nalsa was formed in November 1995 under the Legal Services Authority Act, 1987. It coordinates and monitor the functioning of legal service institutions across India for proper implementation of legal aid programs.
Ms. Devi told NDTV in Delhi, “It took three years to build our house.
Cookie tribes have also blocked the Metei community members from coming to the hills for their annual summer pilgrimage in Thangging Ching in Southern Manipur.
Ms. Devi told NDTV on Tuesday, “We have been asking the authorities to ensure an environment for the last two years, where all the displaced people can return home after reconstruction. We were born in Charachandpur. We have land plates (documents).”
Ms. Devi said, “I grew up here, got married here, gave birth to our three children here … I wish we can get proper protection to go back and at least assess our losses. We will not live without compensation.”
He said that his family had survived on savings, and it is declining rapidly.
In May 2023, before the breakdown of ethnic violence, her husband, Norem Ibomcha Metei, launched a licensed gun shop in Churachandpur. On May 3, 2023, Cookie Mobs looted the gun shop, and CCTV footage captured the incident, according to a first information report (FIR).
Ms. Devi said in the FIR that the mob vandalized her house and burnt furniture and documents before the security forces saved the family.
Mr. Ibomcha Mete Was detained by Assam Rifles Transporting advanced rifle scope from Border Trading Town Morah to Imphal in June 2019.
Ms. Devi alleged that there was not a single gun that was robbed or returned from her licensed gun shop on 3 May.
Their 20-point requests for the Center and other officers include identity cards for the internal displaced people (IDP) to help the Meiteis living in relief camps, who include Aadhaar-linked, mental trauma counseling, education, insurance policy for IDP, insurance policy for IDP, land protection, Meitei community rehabilitation, and student allowances, among others.
“IDP install priority education policies for children, guarantee access to quality education in government and private institutions. Provide wide scholarships and allowances to IDP students, cover tuition fees, educational materials and related expenses. Develop skill-based training centers to facilitate job placement. Apply government-related job placement programs within and outside the state.
“Completely erased”
Since 1953, a union of hundreds of Meteyi families living in Charachandpur told NDTV that some “misunderstanding kukis” claimed that a mountainous region of mathis does not owe land in Churachandpur in a mountainous region, which is a “lie”.
The Khumujamba Metei Leicai Patta-Dar (Land Owner) Association allegedly residing in Charachandpur under the conditions of discrimination long before the Miteai family’s clashes were broken.
“For many years before May 2023, other non-Kuki communities living in mathis and cookie areas were denied their rights, their faith was mocked, and their way of life was disrespectful. Cookie miscreants had denied the name of mathis living in Charachandpur, which were not carrying small shops, which were not carrying small shops, which were not carrying small shops, which were not taking small shops, which were not carrying small shops, We were not taking it, which separated from small shops, “Mr. Ibomcha Meteyi told reporters in July 2024 when The viral video of his house is being demolished Had out with explosives.
Manipur is geographically divided into mountainous and valley areas. The land system includes survey and unique land. All valley districts are survey lands, and the hilly districts have surveyed both and surveyed the unique land.
“Nobody harassed to hear about our plight, because we were seen as a majority community, which is a big lie. All Chin-Kuki and their ethnicly associated tribes are being jointly abused by every other community such as mathis, Nagas, Tamil, Naples, Muslim, etc. “Mr. Ibomcha Miteai said.
In September 2023, Visuals confirmed that an entire colony in Charachandpur where the Metei community lived, was flattened and any indication of its existence was erased. 38 -year -old Ronald Meesnam, who lives in Mandop Leicai, was afraid to see a flat plot of land, where his house was standing.
“Our house and other Meitei houses are flattened in a systematic way as they are the correct owners of our plots,” Sri Meisnam, in tears, said Mr. Meisnam. He holds a degree of BE (electronics and communication) from the Manipur Institute of Technology.
He said, “Police in Charachandpur, who knows well about these illegal acts, have not taken any action against the culprits,” he said.
While the Miti community claims that almost all the properties in the state capital Imphal, a valley area, which is owned by the cookie tribes, stands under the supervision of security forces, the cookie tribes and their civil society organizations say that their community suffered more casualties, when MITEIs lived through the crowd and when there was a fierce harassment and hounding. Kukis claim that all their properties in Imphal were destroyed.
According to Cookie Civil Society Organizations, several cookie houses in Imphal have been occupied by Metei armed groups.
A cookie leader in Delhi told NDTV in July 2024, “Games village in Langol has become a barrack for several metey armed groups. We have visual evidence of gates marked with homosexuals like AT, UNLF, etc.
Ethnic violence between the Valley-Dominant Metei community and about two dozen tribes, known as Kukis, is leading in some mountainous regions of Manipur, killed more than 260 people and has been displaced internal about 50,000.
