Manipur MP Maharaja Leishemba Sanajaoba has strongly demanded a probe against the reports of the People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), terming them as “totally wrong, one-sided, baseless, and ungrounded,” and accused them of adding fuel to the peace process.
Among various points in the reports, it was stated that the current Manipur conflict was “a state-sponsored war” (p. 664) and “Regardless of which side lit the first match in this conflict, it was the State that not only supplied the matchboxes but deliberately created a context where a match needed to be lit in a dark room full of explosives.”
In the glossary of terms, it describes the AT formed by Manipur’s Titular King and Rajya Sabha Member Leishemba Sanajaoba, supported by former Manipur CM N. Biren Singh, and presents it as a revivalist organisation seeking to re-establish the pre-Hindu Sanamahi religion. The group was described as heavily armed, with media reports stating that AT cadres were moving about in many parts of the violence-hit areas of the state with modern weapons.
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties identified itself as a human rights organisation striving to defend civil liberties and democratic rights of all members of society.
