The 10 men killed in the November 11 gunfight with security forces in Jiribam district were village defence volunteers and not militants, the Kuki-Zo Council, an umbrella group of Kuki-Zo-Hmar groups based in Churachandpur district of Manipur, has said.
The five villages in Churachandpur, where the 10 men were from, are not breeding grounds for militancy, the council said in a statement on Sunday. "The 10 Kuki-Zo village volunteers who lost their lives in Jiribam were acting in defence of their community and loved ones, not as aggressors. Their intention was to protect the outnumbered Kuki-Zo villages from the onslaught of Meitei militants, not to engage in militant activities themselves," it said.
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