India, Sept. 10 -- The Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Manipur on Saturday, his first since the unrest, as "historic and a rare occasion", nearly four decades after a Prime Minister last set foot in the region.

According to a statement issued by KZC on Wednesday, signed by its chairman and general secretary Henlianthang Thanglet and Thangzamang, respectively, stated that the Kuki-Zo community have endured immeasurable hardships, during the crisis, which left "more than 250 people dead, over 360 churches and places of worship destroyed, more than 7,000 homes burnt, and thousands of others displaced in relief camps".

"The stark reality is that the Kuki-Zo people have been forcibly separated by th...