Kuki Insurgency in Manipur
Recently, just before the first of the two phases of the Assembly Elections, all insurgent groups associated with the Kuki tribes in Manipur said they will vote for the ruling party at the Centre.
About Kukis
- The Kukis are an ethnic group including multiple tribes originally inhabiting the North-Eastern states of India such as Manipur, Mizoram and Assam; parts of Burma (now Myanmar), and Sylhet district and Chittagong hill tracts of Bangladesh.
- While Kuki is not a term coined by the ethnic group itself, the tribes associated with it came to be generically called Kuki under colonial rule.
- In Manipur, ....