The Kuki CSO Working Committee, Ukhrul on Friday issued a statement alleging a “brazen and unprovoked” attack on Chepu Yaolen village on 2 May 2026, and demanded immediate action.
According to the statement dated 2 May 2026, the incident occurred at approximately 12:30 PM when “indiscriminate firing was unleashed upon Chepu Yaolen” from what it described as “Tangkhul-dominated New Heaven along NH-202.” The committee said the village is a Kuki settlement and that the firing caused “widespread panic” and posed danger to villagers, “particularly women and children.”
The statement also referred to a “failed attempt to infiltrate and assault the village” on 28 April 2026 via the “Ringui–Tongou–Sirarkhong corridor,” alleging that “aggressors have escalated their offensive by directly targeting the residential areas from New Heaven.”
The committee raised concerns regarding personnel from Litan Police Station. It alleged that attackers were “aided with weapons and ammunition,” and that there is “photographic evidence capturing the presence of police personnel at New Heaven prior to the commencement of the assault.” The statement said these developments “raise disturbing questions of collusion, dereliction of duty, and institutional bias.”
It further stated that “repeated warnings about Chepu Yaolen’s vulnerability were ignored” and cited damage to the motorable road near the suspension bridge by “TM Kasom villagers,” which it said “effectively isolated Chepu Yaolen during a time of acute distress.”
In its demands, the committee called for “immediate removal of Tangkhul personnel from Litan Police Station” and “urgent deployment of at least one company of Assam Rifles to secure Chepu Yaolen and adjoining vulnerable habitations.”
The statement added that “continued inertia in the face of such brazen aggression is indefensible” and that if the government “is either incapable or unwilling” to safeguard citizens, it should “declare so without equivocation.”
