UKHRUL: At least 17 residential houses were burnt around 1:30 p.m. today at Huimin Thana in Kamjong district, Manipur. However, the Naga Village Guard (NVG), Eastern Command, reported that about 25 houses were destroyed in an attack allegedly carried out by Kuki militants.
According to reliable sources, ‘unknown miscreants’ set the houses on fire approximately 600 meters from the E Coy Platoon Post, near Huimine Police Station along the Indo-Myanmar border. Preliminary reports indicate that about 13–14 of the affected houses belonged to the Burmese community and 4–5 to the Naga community.
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Upon receiving the information, a Quick Reaction/Rescue Team comprising security forces and police personnel rushed to the spot and carried out rescue operations, the sources said.
Meanwhile, the NVG, Eastern Command, has accused Kuki militants of launching coordinated attacks in Huimine Thana and Kherongram, a hamlet under Nampisha, and of burning 25 houses to ashes.
“In a strategic plan maneuvered by Kuki militants in collusion with the Kuki National Army-Burma (KNA-B), Phaimol—a Kuki village under Kamjong sub-division—was deliberately set on fire to establish a pretext for a pre-planned attack on two Tangkhul Naga settlements, namely Huimine Thana and Kherongram, a hamlet of Nampisha village, along the Indo-Myanmar border on 1 July 2026,” the NVG said.
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Citing eyewitness accounts, the NVG reported that around 20 Kukis armed with sophisticated weapons crossed the Namya River from Phaikoh village, situated at Border Pillar 102, and launched a targeted offensive against the Naga settlements. “While the locals managed to flee, several dwelling houses—13 at Kherongram and 7 at Huimine Thana—were burnt down to ashes. In addition, about 20 camps set up at Kherongram in 2023 and currently sheltering 365 Burmese refugees displaced by political unrest in Myanmar were completely razed,” the NVG asserted.
The NVG stated that the attack on the Naga settlements occurred minutes after 20 abandoned houses at Phaimol village were deliberately set ablaze at around 1:30 p.m. today. It termed the incident a premeditated and clearly orchestrated attack, similar to the burning of Lanchah village, which it claimed served as a precursor to cross-border violent attacks on Tangkhul Naga villages—Z Choro, Wanglee and Namlee—in Kamjong on 7 May 2026.
The NVG further reported that the armed aggression on the Naga settlements took place in the presence of personnel from the Assam Rifles, Border Security Force, Indian Reserve Battalion and state police stationed at Kherongram, adjacent to Huimine Thana village.
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The Eastern Command of the NVG has called upon Tangkhul Naga villagers residing along what it described as the “artificial” international border to remain on high alert and vigilant, alleging a pattern of offensive actions by Kuki groups.
“The beleaguered Kukis, after their unceremonious exit from Imphal Valley in 2023, have been attempting to establish territorial domination by usurping the Nagas—whom the NVG describes as the ancestral landowners—in the hills of Manipur,” it added, reiterating its resolve to protect Naga land, identity and people.
