The Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) has welcomed President Droupadi Murmu ahead of her two-day visit to Manipur beginning December 11, while appealing for her attention to the continued suffering of the Kuki-Zo community displaced by ongoing ethnic violence.

In an official statement issued from its Lamka headquarters, the KZC said the President’s presence in the state “carries deep significance and offers hope to many who continue to live with the scars of the ongoing conflict.”

President Murmu is scheduled to attend programmes in Imphal and Senapati district.

The council, however, expressed its wish that the President, as a tribal leader herself, could visit Kuki-Zo areas to meet victims of the conflict. “We sincerely wish that the President, being a tribal herself, could also visit the Kuki-Zo

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