Imphal : The attention of the United Nations has been sought for its intervention to check the infiltration of illegal migrants from Myanmar into India through the porous borders in Manipur state of India.

This was stated by  L Jadu, Legal Cell Advisor of the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella outfit of several organizations of the Manipur valley, during a press conference at Imphal on Friday. The L Jadu led a delegate of the COCOMI in a meeting with the officials of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New Delhi on September 20.

The COCOMI also sought the action of the UN for the protection of the indigenous people in India’s northeastern states. The UN should have taken action with assistance from the government of India. The COCOMI during the meeting focused on four-point recommendations made earlier in Imphal.

It urged the UN to take proper action against the Chin-Kuki Narco-Terrorism under the responsibility to protect norms and sought the assistance of the UN for proper identification of illegal Chin-Kuki immigrants trespassing into Manipur from Myanmar.

Further, the UN has been urged to check the illegal poppy cultivation and narco-terrorism in the state. Help and assistance have been sought from the UN for proper rehabilitation of the Internally Displaced Persons. Over 60, 000 people are being displaced in the ongoing communal clash that started on May 3 between the Kukis and Meiteis in Manipur.