Kukis are Not Patients of Stockholm Syndrome, Mr Biren

In the last 11 months, the reciprocity of Biren’s skin thickness about the injustice faced by the Kukis has risen to the point that, if there existed wonders of the world based on hypocrisy and shamelessness, Biren would have easily clinched the first spot.

From a man who is rampantly abusing and depriving the Kukis of their fundamental and constitutional rights, a man who turns blind to the gross human rights violations faced by the Kukis, it’s ironic for the Kukis that the man who is an enabler of their grievances and injustice thinks the victims will support him to keep Manipur integrity intact and will vote for a party that fights under his leadership. His out-of-reality statement makes one question as to whether Biren is high on drugs. Or are drugs his solace to escape from reality? Or is he just a devil incarnated as human? A normal and decent human being will not have the calibre to act like “All is well” after inflicting upon them the cruellest and most gruesome suffering unless one is a psychotic serial killer and an abusive human.

As a tech-savvy CM, often resorting to verbal conflict with his netizens, one of his victims whose arrest he had ordered due to a social media post the citizen had made, met a tragic end at a police station at the hands of Meitei mobs. If due to his old age and memory issue he is incapable of remembering things, he should have seen and at least remembered the mutilated bodies of two Kuki men and the feasting on it by Meiteis two days ago. If after witnessing the savageness and cruelty of Arambai Tenggols and the Meitei public celebrating the act, he can still talk about the Kukis and on behalf of the Kukis, Mr Biren’s view on Kukis needs a proper exploration. Does he view the Kuki as a patient of Stockholm syndrome or are they a robot to them?

Even staunch supporters of Arambai Tenggol and Meiteis mob atrocities and cruelty against the Kukis knew a genocide pogrom of such a large scale couldn’t be executed without the support and blessing of the Government in power in the state. Otherwise, a sovereign nation will never allow for the normal operation of Genocide culprits and its land as a ground for execution of the pogrom to ethnically cleanse a section of its citizens who belong to a particular community. Biren discarded and alienated the Kukis from Manipur, thus he has no right nor any authority to talk about or on their behalf.

To justify the terrorist, anti-national and unlawful activities of Arambai Tenggol and Meira Paibis, alongside giving himself the clean sheet on his failure, inefficiencies and his concurrence to the crime, he spearheaded the defamation pogrom against the Kukis to brand them as Illegal immigrants, poppy planters and narco-terrorists. If there is one thing Biren will be known for by history in this ongoing pogrom to ethnically cleanse the Kukis, it will be his consistency and loyalty to remain as Meitei chief minister alone. He acts as the powerhouse to protect and aid the Arambai Tenggol and Meira Paibis in executing the pogrom.

On the dreadful night of 3rd May, Kukis were specifically targeted on the roads, houses, hospitals, workplaces, government quarters, their localities and even the University was not spared. Many were burned to death alive, gang-raped, murdered, their bodies mutilated and physically assaulted, and they were not safe even inside the central security force vehicles. Rather than containing the atrocities and heinous crimes against the Kukis, the fire spread further outside the capital city. Kuki villagers in the periphery of the capital city met the same fate as Kukis from Imphal from mobs led by armed men adorned in Manipur police uniforms and vehicles. Biren let the situation unfurl freely on the whims and fancies of the terrorist outfit Arambai tenggol and mobs led by Meira Paibis. The CM muted off the cries and suffering of the Kukis from the reach of his office and emptied the fuel of his vehicles for his visit to the Kukis. Biren alienated and discarded Kukis from Manipur first, and the Kukis by default had to accept the reality. Manipur is thus partitioned into two; areas inhabited by the Kuki and Hell on Earth for the Kukis in Manipur.

That moment when he failed to protect Kukis even in the capital city of Imphal and let the pogrom spread all over Kuki inhabited villages which were in proximity to Meitei’s localities, also to his Ministers and constitutional authorities belonging to the Kuki community, and surrendered them to savagery and barbarism at the hands of Meitei mobs spearheaded by his own Arambai Tenggol, Manipur was already partitioned into two with the buffer zone acting as the line of separation. Thus neither Biren nor the Meitei public in general have the right to talk about the integrity of Manipur after the gross human rights violations they have inflicted upon the Kukis, and with the ongoing psychological, physical and emotionally cruel and heinous atrocities they continue to execute against them.

They should know Kukis are not suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, nor do they have short- term memory, nor are they Stockholm syndrome patients. Kukis are not robots either who operate on the whims and fancies of their owners. Kukis are normal humans with emotions and rationality. Thus, they like any normal human being with conscience in a democracy will demand the justice and dignity they deserve in a democratic country. Like all mothers, our mother India will be just unto them.