The Thadou tribes released a 10-point declaration to protect the tribe's distinct identity and heritage amid the ethnic crisis in Manipur.
Thadou Convention have agreed to place a demand for recognition of the Thadou tribe as a separate and distinct Scheduled Tribe in Assam, Mizoram, and Nagaland.
As per thedeclaration, Thadou is not Kuki, or underneath Kuki, or part of Kuki, but a separate, independent entity from Kuki.
Thadou is one of the original 29 native/indigenous tribes of Manipur, India.
It has been the single-largest tribe in Manipur consistently since the first census of India in 1881 till the latest census in 2011 that recorded Thadou population at 2,15,913.
Any Kuki Tribes (AKT) had a population of 28,342 in the latest Manipur census in 2011, the first time Kuki was ever recorded in a census.