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JE News Desk: The Mizoram government on Sunday reassured the safety and security of the Meitei community in the state and also requested them not to believe in rumours. This came following reports of hundreds of Meitei people from southern Assam and Manipur leaving Mizoram in response to a public call by former insurgents in the state.

According to an official statement, State home commissioner and Secretary H Lalengmawia convened a meeting with Meitei community leaders on Saturday and assured them of their safety and security.

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Lalengmawia also asked the leaders of the All Mizoram Manipuri Association (AMMA) to inform and persuade their fellow Meitei community members, both government employees and citizens, not to leave Mizoram following an advisory issued by the Peace Accord MNF Returnees Association (PAMRA).

Earlier on Friday, the Peace Accord MNF Returnees' Association (PAMRA), formerly known as the Mizo National Front Militants, issued a letter urging Meiteis to leave Mizoram “for their own safety” amid "anger among Mizo youth" over the horrific viral video, showing two Kuki community women being paraded naked in broad daylight in strife-torn Manipur.

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The Central Young Mizo Association (CYMA), an influential civil society group, has also encouraged the people belonging to the Meitei community to live peacefully in the state.

Meanwhile, the Mizos of Mizoram, who shares a deep ethnic bond with the Kuki-Zomis of Manipur, have been providing shelter to over 12,000 people of the community who fled from the strife-torn state since ethnic clashes erupted there on May 3.

Over 120 people lost their lives in the ethnic clashes which erupted in the northeastern state on May 3 after the tribals of the Kuki community attended a ‘Solidarity March’ which was organised by the students’ body in all 10 hill districts of Manipur to protest against the attempts for the inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the ST category.