Imphal: Human rights and environmental activist, Jodha Heikrujam drew the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi remained a mute spectator for the past 10 months in the ethnic violence hit the Indian state of Manipur bordering Myanmar.
Jodha Heikrujam from Manipur delivered his short speech in the ongoing 55th UNHRC session held in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday.
The session that started on February 26 will conclude on April 5, 2024.
Urging actions for financial and technological assistance under Article 41 of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Indigenous People, Jodha addressed the session that many innocents lost their lives in the violence.
“Students were raped, molested and murdered in the barbaric actions perpetrated by the Chin Kuki narco-terrorists of Myanmar and Bangladesh who are aiming to establish a separate nation for illegal drugs and poppy plantations,” he claimed.
Jodha said Manipur’s efforts to quell the turmoil have flattened as Prime Minister Narendra Modi remained a mute spectator for the past ten months.
The Prime Minister neglected to address the ongoing violence even though over 4,700 houses were destroyed in the violence, and 51, 000 people were displaced taking shelter in different relief camps across the region.
Further Jodha maintained that indigenous people have a limited eight per cent of land and they are besieged by the Kuki-Narco-terrorists threatening their fundamental rights.
He implored for the restoration of land, peace, security and human rights in strife Manipur.
Notably, Kh Athouba, the spokesperson of the Coordination Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), one of the region’s powerful organisations, had also delivered his speeches on three occasions on the Manipur issues in the ongoing UNHRC session.