Imphal, November 29 2009: The United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) has expressed strongly condemnation to the brutal and merciless murder of Benjamin Thangbem son of Ngampao of Khengjoy village by the cadres of Kuki National Army (KNA) on November, 2009 at Tuibong in Churachandpur district.

The condemnation note signed by Mathew Thadou, secretary Information and Publicity (UKLF) dispatched yesterday claimed that Benjamin was a cadre of UKLK who joint the outfit and served under Kuki Army no.206 but discharged on medical ground in 2003 as he became mentally challenged.

"It is against conventional practice and the spirit of true revolutionary movement to exterminate ex-cadres of any revolutionary organization," UKLF stated.

The "barbaric" act of the KNA which was meted in the past many occasions too has contradicted its own claim to fight for an independent Kuki nation.

Their hands are stained with the blood of their own people rendering hundreds and thousands as widows and orphan, the press handout alleged.

UKLF is always against any form of bloodshed and fratricide among own community or tribe which is against the principal of "Re-unification"- unification of all Kuki tribes, it added.

Recalling the agreement sign between UKLF and KNA in the aftermath of merciless killing of two UKLF cadres by KNA cadres in May 11, 2009 at Gunjil in Chandel district, on June 25 of the same year under the chair of the DIG, AR sector, Pallel, the statement recalled that in the event it was also resolved that no group of KNA and UKLF will fire on the other group deliberately or accidentally under any circumstances with immediate effect.

But, KNA has violated the MoU by killing mercilessly the mentally retarded Benjamin Thangbem, an ex-cadre of the outfit alleged the statement urging the concern authority to take immediate action against the violators, KNA, as the ground rules does not permit them to do so.

"The barbaric act of KNA upon its own community frequently is term as an "Anti social organization of the Kuki", the Zelengam movement of KNA is to kill and tortured its own communities," UKLF put down giving alert to all the Kuki communities from KNA who think themselves that they were nation workers.

Whether the president of KNO, PS Sojang who is at present camping at Tuibong area is for killing and torture to its own people, the statement went on to say stating that UKLF will also compel to react and repay KNA in the same coin if it does not desist from the path it is treading along.

The statement finally expressed shared to the pain and grief of the family of Benjamin, friends, relatives and dear ones.

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