Kuki in a sentence

Meiteis are not going to Kuki areas and the Kuki people are not going to Meitei inhabited areas.

The tribal refugees have fled from their native villages in the CHT after an armed conflict started in mid November last year between the Bangladesh Army and the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), also known as Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF).

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Another community-based organisation, the Kuki Inpi, Sadar Hills, demanded a probe into the “arson”.

A resident of an adjacent locality, another Kuki settlement, he and his family were evacuated immediately.

As reports of the shooting spread, hundreds of people belonging to the majority Meiti community rushed to the spot fearing attacks by the minority Kuki ethnic group.

Following the protest by hill-majority Kuki tribes against the valley majority Meitei tribes over their demand for the Scheduled Tribes (ST) policy, both have witnessed their worship places demolished by the mob violence.

For information, let us tell you that on May 3, curfew has been imposed under Section 144 in Manipur after clashes between two communities, Kuki and Meitei.

He also recounted how Kuki-Zo churches, and even his school which his parents ran for over two decades in Imphal West, was burned down by the mob in May this year.

He is known as the leader and the founder of the famous Arataki gang which also includes the Electro four-star character Kuki Shinobu.

He said Kuki demands could be solved democratically and politically.

It started with tension over the eviction of Kuki villagers from reserve forest land, which led to a series of smaller agitations.

Kuki leaders have called the demand another attempt by the Meitei community, which has 40 representatives in the 60-member Assembly, to take control over the entire state.

Members of the community predominantly reside in the six valley districts of Manipur, while the mostly Christian Kuki and Naga tribes inhabit 10 hill districts.

Most of these vulnerable areas are situated in the peripheral areas of valley districts bordering Kuki- dominated districts, including the Torbung area of Bishnupur district, which is at the epicentre of the latest flare-up of tensions in the state.

On May 28, an 18-year-old Meitei woman, S. Ibotombi was burnt alive by Kuki militants in Kakching district.

On November 15, in a significant development, a frontal organisation of the Kuki tribes had claimed they were ready to establish a "self-governed separate administration" in areas dominated by them, "whether the centre recognised it or not".

People stop an Army vehicle during their protest against the mass burial of Kuki-Zomi people killed in Manipur’s ethnic violence, in Imphal.

The ethnic clash between Kuki and Meitei continued for two-three years, there were losses and deaths.

The interior of a fire-damaged church in June in a Kuki locality.