Imphal, Feb. 10 -- The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an association of Meiti civil society organisations, expressed its grave concern and deep anguish over the recent incidents of arson and burning that have erupted between Tangkhul and Kuki groups in Litan village, Ukhrul district, on February 7. It said these incidents are not isolated or accidental but yet another tragic manifestation of a long and carefully engineered crisis that has been imposed upon the people of Manipur through proxy politics and deliberate institutional negligence.
"What we are witnessing today is not an accident of history, but the predictable outcome of a policy architecture that has relied on proxy forces, selective silence, and deceptive...