Manipur: Funeral Held Of 10 Kuki-Jow Youths Killed In Encounter With Security Forces
- By Thetripurapost Desk, Imphal
- Dec 05, 2024
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The last rites of 10 Kuki-Jho youths who were killed in an encounter with security forces on November 11 in Jiribam town of Manipur were performed on Thursday.
The important thing is that before the funeral ceremony held at the Peace Ground of Churachandpur, the village volunteers gave a gun salute to the dead.
After this a condolence meeting was organized. Manipur Police had described these youths as extremists.
Earlier, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF), a prominent organization of the Kuki-Jo community in Manipur, also organized a condolence program. Family members of the deceased and others also paid floral tributes to the 10 youths killed in the encounter.
Mizoram MLA Ginjalala and many others from the neighbouring state attended the funeral. MLA Ginjalala is also the advisor (technical) to Chief Minister Lalduhoma.
Manipur Police had claimed that armed rebels had fired indiscriminately on the Borobekra police station and the adjoining CRPF camp at Jakurdhor in Jiribam district on November 11.
After this, 10 suspected militants were killed in a fierce encounter with security forces.
The militants were also accused of kidnapping and killing six people on the same day, including three women and three children.
More than 250 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki-Jo groups since May last year.
On November 16, the bodies of 10 Kuki-Jo youths were taken from Silchar town in Assam to Churachandpur, where post-mortems were conducted and the bodies were kept in a mortuary.
The bodies were sent to their respective families on Wednesday.