Dr. Hegin Tungdim vowed to grow his hair long

Dr. Hegin Tungdim, an orthopedist vowed to grow his hair long as a sign of non-violent, peaceful protest against the injustices suffered by his people and the government of India's refusal to provide justice.  On May 3,  2025 the second anniversary of the Meitei attack on the Kuki-Zos, Dr. Hegin vowed to let his hair grow long as a reminder to the nation he loves. He stated, "Justice is long overdue" for his people, who have given so much to India. 

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DR. P.HEGIN TUNGDIM RESOLVES ON 3rd MAY, 2025 : "I WILL GROW LONG HAIRS!"

The ongoing Meitei-Kuki Zos conflict is no accident but a conscious, well-planned and pre-meditated ethnic cleansing progrom by the majority meiteis who were supposed to be guardians of the minority community. They have failed Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, the Chief Architect of the Indian Constitution who stated, "the stability of a nation depends on the mentality of the majority community". Beside the many selfish things they have done in the past, here is a list of some of the many indelible traumas they have done in recent times:-

January 6 and 16, 2006: At least 25 women including minor girls were raped and molested in Parbung and Lungthulien in Tipaimukh sub-division of Churachandpur. The same year and the following year, many men and women including minors suffered landmines injury claiming few lives and many have been maimed for life.

April 14, 2016: Two underage girls were waylaid by seven youngsters while they were returning from a Thabal Chongba (Moonlight dance) in Imphal and were gangraped in a nearby foothill.

May 4, 2023: Two women, one 21 years young unmarried and the other in her 40's, wife of an Ex-army (Kargil hero) were stripped, paraded naked, molested in broad daylight for all the world to see and later gang raped at Nongpok Sekmai, Imphal East only to be released the next day. The video leaked through media houses that shook the nation and the world showed that there were at least a 100 men following the already naked women being walked to an open field as they were molested ceaselessly, writhing in pain, in shame, in fear and in helplessness with not a single righteous man or woman in that crowd to at least try to stop the perpetrators, even the police personnels there were reportedly turning a deaf ear. The brother and father of the younger victim were mercilessly killed in front of her as they tried to protect her. The crowd in one accord committed the unthinkables.

May 4, 2023 (same day as above): Two young girls namely Olivia Chongloi (21 yrs) and Florence Hangshing (24 years), who were working in a Car wash in Konung Mamang, near Palace Compound in Imphal to support their younger siblings' studies were gangraped from 5:00-8:00 PM and their body parts were mutilated painfully part by part as they were dying slowly in pain, in shame and in helplessness!

May 15, 2023: An 18 years young girl hiding in another community's house was abducted by four men in purple color car and was taken to Wangkhei Ayangpalli and was handed over to Meira Paibis who in turn handed over her to AT (Arambai Tenggols) with an instruction to kill her. She was then shoved into a car and was taken to a hillock in Bishnupur District, butally beaten and gang raped by three men. Mustering courage, she jumped and hurled down the slope and landed in a road, only to be rescued by a rickshaw puller later. (In an interview with the German news Channel DW, Konsam Monica, a Meira Paibi leader justified the rapes of Kuki Zo women saying, "the rapes of Kuki Zo Women were justified because it is war").

June 4, 2023: A bullet injured seven years young boy Tonsing Hangshing and her Meitei mother and her Meitei friend were stopped at Iroishenba, Imphal and were all burnt alive inside their ambulance by a mob led by Meira Paibis while seeking emergency medical attention. 

July 2, 2023: Mr David Thiek, a resident of Langza in Churachandpur district was captured alive, his left forearm was first chopped off with a Dao and was mockingly asked to pick it up with his right hand which was then cut off, then his remaining body parts were cut one after another alive as he writhed in pain pleading for mercy, finally to be decapitated and the decapitated head held by the main culprit on his left hand as though it were a trophy, only to hang it on the pole nearby. The remaining body parts were burnt to ashes.

November 7, 2024: A 31 years young school teacher Mrs. Zosangkim Hmar of Zairawn village, Jiribam was shot on the thigh, raped, her body cut into pieces and burnt, her skull cut opened and her brain taken out and put in a plastic bag.

April 28, 2025: A young Kuki Zo woman married faithfully to a Meitei Khaidem boy from Tangjeng village was beaten up by her husband, tied to the bed by her in-laws for 3 days without food only to be rescued by Kabui community who handed her over to KKL (Kuki Khanglai Lawmpi).

Meiteis'most celebrated singer Mr Jayenta@Tapta's Kuki Zos hate song series titled "Kukiland Songs" has released his 20th song in the series. Its hatred loaded contents are inerasable from the young Meitei minds.

The hate slogan "Kuki tumna hat lo!" meaning "Ännihilate the Kukis" is heard chanted in many public gatherings, sad of them most is the instance where school children were made to pronounce in loud and clear in recent rallies in the streets in Imphal and in front of the Raj Bhavan still ring like they happened just now.

The list goes on….! 

All these atrocities have been willfully and consciously perpetrated on the minority Kuki Zo community by the Majority Meitei community, who have deliberately failed in their responsibility to keep Manipur stable and intact. There sure is no way that the minority Kuki Zo community can put faith on this majority community again ever. They have been hated so much, so much so that they will not be accepted to live in Imphal again. Physical separation has happened, Kuki Zos have been forcibly chased into their ancestral land. They now need to govern themselves, SEPARATE ADMINISTRATION is no longer a demand but a necessity and the only way forward!

I Dr. P.Hegin Tungdim, the first Orthopaedics Surgeon amongst the Kuki Zo people in Manipur call upon the Government of India (GoI) and the conscience of this great nation, which was once subjugated and oppressed by the British colonialists and for whose freedom, our Kuki Zo  fore-fathers fought them for three long years (1917-1919) and caused much damage to the Oppressors and again joined the INA (Indian National Army) founded by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in 1892 in largest numbers. Out of the 198 soldiers from Manipur martyred in the national liberation movement, 170 belonged to the Kuki Zo community. 

And as a sign of non-violent peaceful protest for the injustices meted out to my people and the willful denial of Justice on the part of the GoI, I on this day the 3rd of May, 2025 on the 2nd Anniversary of the Meiteis onslaught on the Kuki Zos vowed to grow long hairs as a reminder to this great nation I love much, "JUSTICE IS LONG OVERDUE" for my people who gave their all for this great Nation called "INDIA". Jai Hind!!

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