Imphal, Aug. 11: The Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) renewed its demand for justice for "crimes" allegedly committed by the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) against the Kukis before making any settlement with the Naga militant group.

The KIM, the apex body of the Kuki community in Manipur, said the Centre's signing of the peace accord with NSCN (I-M), sidelining demands of the Kukis for justice, had come as a "great shock" to the Kuki people.

The Kuki organisation yesterday submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing its anguish at the signing of the peace accord "ignoring" long-pending demands of the community.

The memorandum, signed by KIM president Thangkhosei Haokip, alleged that the cadres of the Naga militant group killed 905 Kukis, including women and children, and destroyed 360 Kuki villages, rendering more than one lakh Kukis homeless.

The Nagas and Kukis clashed through the nineties' decade. The affected Kukis are yet to be rehabilitated, the memorandum said.

It included 24 photos as "samples of the brutality of crimes" committed in "butchering" 905 innocent Kuki people and also copies of memoranda submitted to Narendra Modi and his predecessors.

To cite an example, the memorandum said the Naga militant group killed 87 Kukis in front of their wives and children at Tamei in Tamenglong district on September 13, 1993. The then Manipur governor, V.K. Nair, had visited the site of the killing two days after the incident, it said.

Stating that more than 60 memoranda had been submitted to five of Modi's predecessors and also to him, the memorandum wondered why all their pleas had been ignored.

Haokip said any accord with the Naga group, prior to settlement of crimes committed by NSCN (I-M) against the Kukis, in a proper law court of the country, would never be accepted by KIM.

The memorandum said the Kuki people still hoped that the Centre would settle the cases of the Kukis before revelation of the details of the accord to ensure peace, justice and peaceful co-existence in the region.

"The Kuki people have never advocated violence, whether towards the government or any other neighbouring communities, except in defending themselves against armed organisations purportedly fighting for independence," added the memorandum.

The memorandum said total disregard of the pleas to six successive prime ministers would mislead everyone that violence was being encouraged in the country. It further said a pre-requisite for peaceful coexistence in the region is to first settle crimes committed against humanity in a proper court of law.