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Waiton rallies against ‘land encroachment’

Locals of Waiton today staged a sit in protest at Waiton ground and took out a protest rally at the locality against alleged land encroachment move of Manipur Police Training Centre MPTC Source The Sangai Express

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ESF Maram’s fresher’s meet cum felicitation held

The 5th fresher’s meet cum felicitation of Eimi Students’ Fellowship, Maram was organized on Saturday at Taphou Kuki Village by Kuki Students’ Organization, Sadar Hills Source Hueiyen News Service

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Peace calls echo at international conference

An international peace conference on Building Nations of Peace Our Shared Responsibility was held today at the Lecture Hall No Source The Sangai Express

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International Overdose Awareness Day

As in other parts of the world, International Overdose Awareness Day was observed by Community Network for Environment CONE at Manipur Press Club here today Source Hueiyen News Service

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UNC announces total shutdown during funeral

Public funeral service for Mayopam Ramror and VS Ramkasing, who allegedly died in police firing in Ukhrul town yesterday, would be performed under the aegis of United Naga Council UNC at the public ground of the town at 10 am tomorrow Source The S…

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Nonlocal dupes Rs 35 lakh from locals

At a time when the people of Manipur are cautious enough towards checking inflow of non locals into the state and the public’s cry for implementation of Inner Line Permit ILP System is growing louder with each passing day, an incident of non local man duping people with an amount of Rs 35 lakhs on the pretext of constructing hospitals, schools and a Masjid place of worship for Muslims has come to light Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

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Ibobi visits injured victims, promises Rs 5 lakh exgratia

Chief Minister O Ibobi today personally visited four injured victims at JNIMS and RIMS, and extended monetary aid to their families Source The Sangai Express

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Peace is the basic requirement for growth Prof E Bijoykumar

Peace is the basic requirement to bring about growth Source Hueiyen News Service

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Uncontrolled price rise of essential goods in State discussed

Protection Preservation Committee, Manipur PPCM organized a one day discussion programme on the topic ‘Uncontrolled Price Rise of Essential Commodities in Manipur’ at Manipur Press Club here on Saturday Source Hueiyen News Service

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Manipur Hockey Elects Its New Office Bearers – E-Pao.net

Manipur Hockey Elects Its New Office BearersE-Pao.netImphal, August 31 2014: Manipur Hockey, in its General Body Meeting held today at the Conference Hall of Youth Hostel Khuman Lampak, has elected the new office bearers for the 17-member Executive Cou…

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Imphal, August 31 2014: Manipur Hockey, in its General Body Meeting held today at the Conference Hall of Youth Hostel Khuman Lampak, has elected the new office bearers for the 17-member Executive Council for 2014-2018 . In the Election conducted …

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Manipur Students in Delhi led by MSAD paid condolence to victims of Ukhrul violence

Delhi 31-Aug-2014: Volunteers of MSAD and others today, 31 August 2014, gathered at the University of Delhi and paid condolence to late Mayopam Ramror (09-01-1979), s/o L.R. Hangyui of Teinem Village, Ukhrul and Ramkashing Vashi (01-03-1988 to 30-08-2014), s/o L. Christopher Vashi of Teinem Village, Ukhrul) who were killed in police firing to suppress a public demonstration held in Ukhrul. In addition to candle lighting and two minutes silence in the name of those who were being killed, MSAD raised various slogans such as; Stop State Terrorism, Condemn Undemocratic and Inhuman Governance, Manipur Govt. Stop Killing Innocent Civilians and, Militarization is not the Democratic Solution. MSAD reiterated its appeal that militarization could not be a solution to any political question. MSAD condemned the Government for its failure to peaceful handling of the tense situation in Ukhrul.

Ukhrul Outrage

The clashes that occurred in Ukhrul yesterday during a United Naga Council rally pushing for an early resolution of the Indo-Naga issue among others, resulting in the loss of two

The clashes that occurred in Ukhrul yesterday during a United Naga Council rally pushing for an early resolution of the Indo-Naga issue among others, resulting in the loss of two young lives and several more injured was tragic and deplorable, but it would not be wrong to say the tension that led to the explosion was building up for quite some time now ever since the assassination of an ADC member, Ngalangzar Malue, at Finch Corner a month and a half ago, and the subsequent imposition of ban order under the CrPC Section 144 in Ukhrul district headquarters. The State government also rushed and stationed additional forces of India Reserve Battalion and police commandos there, much to the resentment of the residents. It must also be said, often it is not just the presence of government forces that ordinary people are averse to per se, but the likelihood of violent clashes with forces hostile to the State that their presence is likely to bring, and in which crossfire the ordinary residents may find themselves caught. This is the reality of any insurgency situation, and a drama played out in so many different conflict theatres in the State perennially. That the UNC rallies were held at all Naga majority districts but all except the one at Ukhrul turned violent is testimony of this residual tension. There were of course some reports from the Senapati district where signs of some minor skirmishes between the UNC rallyists and Sadar Hills district demand activists also showed up, pointing to the multi-pronged conflict time-bomb that Manipur rests on currently. Although nothing can compensate for loss of lives, it is at least a consolation that the Manipur government has promptly declared ex-gratia payments to the families of the two young men killed. The money is nothing, but at least the initiative is a welcome sign that the government is forthright enough to show remorse at its strong arm measures.

Tragic as the case may be, it is even more disturbing to think this is unlikely to be the end of similar violent clashes between the State and different sections of the people, and worse still, quite imaginably between different communities too. So far the latter variety of clashes have not happened ever since the 1990s, when ethnic riots swept both the hills and the valley of the State, first a brief clash between the Meitei and Meitei Pangal, in what has been described as a historical aberration, and then a more sustained one between the Nagas and Kukis, which caused much more deaths, injuries and displacements. There were other occasions when clashes of the ethnic hue had seemed almost imminent, but thankfully each time good senses prevailed, and despite numerous mutual provocations, the saner memories of traditional ties prevailed to save the day. But, those days of tension should be a caution not just for the government but the people themselves. When the ground becomes dry as tinder, a little spark can cause wild fires, and nobody would doubt possibilities such wild fires could have been the nightmarish realities on many of those occasions. And sure enough, such sparks can be lit by sinister and unscrupulous Grim Reaper incarnates and selfish ambulance chasers too. In the Meitei-Pangal clashes for instance, it was seldom, if ever, a case of clashes between neighbours, but of marauding gangs on dark murderous missions, perpetrating most of the killings and arsons. While passions of the day can blind anybody and everybody, there is no gainsaying the wounds of disastrous clashes such passions can lead to would leave scars on all sides that would take generations to heal. We can only be grateful to providence that such a nightmare has not come to pass, and we pray it never ever happens either.

The potential for violence as we have seen in Ukhrul yesterday continues to loom precisely because visions of political future of different communities have not only become divergent from each other as well as those of the State, but they have also become blind to the ground reality which says there can be no other than a multi-ethnic future for the State. The demographic composition of the State says this loudly and clearly, and it can only be depravity of mind which makes anyone not hear or see this. It cannot be by any definition be an easy task for any State to handle a conflicting social situation. But the Manipur government has no choice but to look for a democratic path out of its own social conflict situation. It can begin by being the governance agent it is meant to be in earnest, rather than be on perpetual personal aggrandisement missions, politicking and playing political musical chairs in the scramble for ministerial portfolios with brokerage handles on lucrative government development projects.
It must also however be remembered that it needs two hands to clap. Civil society organisations often act as foils to the militarised State in accentuating these conflict situations, precisely by not seeing beyond their noses and thereby being blind to the social realities of this multi-ethnic State. They too can be as bigoted as the State, and have far too often reduced the practice of democracy to what Karl Popper calls, “Mobocracy”.

Leader Writer: Pradip Phanjoubam

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Give Manipur its life back, and Irom Sharmila her freedom – Daily Mail

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What Has Happened in Ukhrul: height of fragility

By Amar Yumnam Any loss of life due to actions by any agency, whether state or non-state, is painful. No effort should be spared to avoid such kind of an

By Amar Yumnam

Any loss of life due to actions by any agency, whether state or non-state, is painful. No effort should be spared to avoid such kind of an outcome. Death is never a reversible event and so should never be externally imposed on any soul. This principle should be respected by both the state and the non-state entities. Otherwise, the state or the non-state agency would emerge as the Enemy of the people. Something like this keeps on happening in Manipur. In other words, Manipur has been in a cycle of fragility for the last half a century. There would be moments when things seem improving but would be back to the same turmoil situation sooner than later.

Before I proceed, let me explain what do I mean by fragility in the Manipur context. First, Manipur has consistently failed to provide minimum economic infrastructure so that the people can indulge in meaningful efforts for livelihood in a facilitating context; the state has not developed the capability to facilitate people’s endeavours for productive activities. Second, the state in Manipur has constantly displayed the lack of a reliable capacity to uphold the rule of law. Third, Manipur as a polity has failed to produce political leaders who can inspire, fire the imagination of the people, acquire the trust of the population and thus command respectability in actions.

The tragedy of fragility anywhere in the world is that in most cases the fragility gets alternated with conflicts. This has exactly been the case in Manipur. While there are political and economic reasons (I would not count cultural as significant) for this cycle in Manipur, I am afraid if this has been made structural by the institution of state here. This fear is borne out strongly by what is happening in Ukhrul now. We know for sure that for the last nearly a decade Ukhrul has been moving in a robust way towards stability and convergence with the overall polity of the land. This was indeed a welcome development after decades of incorrigible violence and instability, particularly as the atmosphere was anti-state politically and territorially. This trend was about to take roots spatially and politically when the latest developments have taken place. Instead of positive political and economic interventions getting evolved and implemented, we now see a situation where the provincial law enforcing forces have claimed lives. This speaks volumes of the dogged failure of the state agencies to learn lessons from the earlier rounds of the cycle of fragility. What is even more disturbing is the likelihood that the state agencies thrive in a context of the sustenance of the fragility. When I say state agencies, I would definitely imply, a la carte Milton Friedman, the people manning the agencies of the state. A broad picture is now emerging in bold frame that these people manning the state agencies rather commit to see to it that the disturbances continue. The deep and widespread corruption everybody talks about might be most convenient to indulge in an atmosphere where the fragility of the state is salient. The recent culmination in the killing of two persons by the law and order enforcing agencies should be fully owned up by them. While there could be excuses and arguments that the town and surrounding areas have been under tension for some time, the shooting to dead is unpardonable; this action betrays the incapacity of the state to learn lessons from past events and absolute lack of governance capability to face crises positively.

Now let us trace back the fragility indications Manipur has encountered in recent years. I would take up three. First, the Malom incident which produced Irom Sharmila. This happened when the scenario in Manipur was moving towards decline in conflict and as if the fragility cycle was not going to be repeated. Second, the Manorama incident. This also happened when the similar developments were taking place in Manipur. Now comes, the third example of the current happenings in Manipur. Whenever the fragility indicators show signs of improvement, we have always had a state, in both union and federal sense, which would see to it that the situation goes back to the instability scenario. This has happened so many rounds in Manipur that in most likelihood the institution of state has made the fragility structural in the polity of Manipur. The democratic process has not given us political leaders who can inspire people and lead the state out of fragility towards stability and development. But the fragility seems to have ensured the personalised and individualised success of the people manning the state agencies to follow tricks of personal aggrandisement with full immunity. This is how the fragility has been made structural in governance in Manipur.

Now the state has emerged as the biggest problem of the state in Manipur. Bringing a change in this scenario would necessitate altering the character and orientation of governance in Manipur. How to bring about this change is a million dollar democratic question in Manipur. Fragility has too long been allowed to characterise the political economic feature of Manipur, and this has to be changed sooner than later. The state should always be an evolving institution and never one thriving in conditions of fragility at the cost of the common people.

A Silence not Golden

By B.G. Verghese The Prime Minister acted like greased lightning last week to defend his Home Minister, Rajnath Singh against rumours that his son was guilty of political misdemeanours. So

By B.G. Verghese

The Prime Minister acted like greased lightning last week to defend his Home Minister, Rajnath Singh against rumours that his son was guilty of political misdemeanours. So did Amit Shah, in quick succession, setting in motion speculation of some kind of internal party crisis, with influential insiders gunning for the Home Minister. Rajnath’s pacification was soon followed by a snub with the PMO blackballing his Ministry’s nominee for appointment as the new interlocutor for the Naga peace talks.The new regime does not tolerate tall poppies. Everything is being centralised.

Contrast this with masterly inaction on the Supreme Court’s advice to the PM and CMs that those charge-sheeted should not be appointed or retained as ministers. AmitShah, charged with murder and out on bail, is Modi’s right hand man while Nihal Chand Meghwal, among some other cabinet ministers, is charged in a 2011 sexual assault case filed by a married woman in Jaipur. All those holding public office must enjoy moral authority if they are to command respect. These men, however, exemplify the worst in public life.

While the course of justice in the 2002 riots drags on.Nanavati is still to submit his post-Godhra report after 12 years, even as police officers investigating the IshratJehan case, in which Amit Shah is an accused, are being transferred to distant places.

Meanwhile, the crude rantings of the BJP Gorakhpur MP, Yogi Avaidyanath, against the Muslim minority grow ever louder. These provocative and divisive taunts constitute incitements to offence, yet this foul-mouthed man is allowed to continue his abusive spree and has now been made in charge of the Party’s UP election campaign. Modi remains silent. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the Yogi is possibly echoing His Master’s Voice and is therefore beyond reproach. The slanderous Hindutvacampaign against Christian conversions and Muslim “love jihad” is based on manufactured untruths for the most part. Two of the BJP’s most visible Muslim spokespersons have Hindu wives. Are these men scoundrels to be derided and hounded and their innocent wives abused by a bunch of communal rowdies?

And what to speak of Hindus who cannot now by law practice bigamy who therefore convert to Islam to marry a second time. Well known film stars, Dharamendra and our famously silent RajyaSabha MP, HemaMalini, fall in that category. Are they guilty of “love jihad” by mutual consent? How can we tolerate such vicious and demeaning campaigns! Yet Mr Modi remains silent, disinvesting moral authority from his high office. How can he tolerate Adiyanath’s latest assertion that any concentration of 10-20 per cent minorities spells communal riots in that area; a concentration of 20-35 per cent means greater trouble; and that if the concentration exceeds even the latter figure “there is no place for non-Muslims”.

The SanghParivar is meanwhile reported to be engaged in organising “love jihad” groups in Western U.P to fight this presumed menace in all regions where its own cadres have been active in sowing communal discord. Is this a declaration of war against the nation’s minorities and a warning that a plural society will not be tolerated at any cost? Is only a fanatical Hindu(tva)Rashtrato prevail? This is surely a caricature of the core Hindu belief in VasudaivaKutumbakam – that the world is my family – and its civilizational record of accommodation and tolerance. Can the Courts, governments at all levels and public opinion remain silent and applaud hate speech by the Parivar’sHindutva Taliban?

The Prime Minister plans to celebrate Teachers’ Day on September 5 through a national hook-up of his proposed speech that has been officially mandated to reach all aided and unaided schools countrywide. What wisdom or values is he going to impart to the nation’s children and teachers?Not that Mr Modi boasts any outstanding educational values. His warm endorsement of Dina NathBatra’s fantasies such calling on children to depict the true map of India as Akhand Bharat, including all of SAARC, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Tibet, preachesrank unconstitutionalism and scientific gibberish. Not content with that, his Government is now intent on robbing proven institutions of excellence like the IITs of their autonomy by placing them under the UGC. Why this mania to control everyone and everything, especially education, information and communication. This bears a stamp of creeping authoritarianism.

We seem headed for governmentand governanceby innuendo. The PM is silent when he should speak and speaks when he should remain silent. These straws in the wind have not gone unnoticed. The Modi mystique is unravelling even before the 100-day “celebrations” of his regime. The nation’s 5.7 per cent growth rate in the quarter ended June is welcome but derives from decisions, emerging trends and impulses that essentially belong to the earlier UPA era, whatever the Government might claim.

Some signs of early public disquiet can be read into the recent Assembly by- election results in which the BJP could win only seven out of 18 seats, plus one by its Akali ally, losing at least four seats in the bargain. Too much need not be read into this, but the message cannot be ignored.

And what is one to make of the raging and tearing campaign the BJP has launched against Omar Abdullah and the J&K Assembly for daring to resolve that India and Pakistan should engage in talks. Is the BJP’sfavoured option to have the Government sit on its hands for ever? Vajpayee was statesman enough to invite Musharraf for talks in Agra despite his terrible betrayal in Kargil.What is the BJP’s Kashmir policy other than joining Pakistan’s jihadists in reducing it to a communal cauldron? The Party continues to betray profound ignorance of the origins, meaning and significance of Article 370. Let the BJP remember the poet’s wisdom: “Peace hath Her victories, no less renowned than War”. We must win the peace.

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CM in damage control mode, announces Rs 5 lakh each for those killed in police firing at Ukhrul

IMPHAL, August 31: The State government has today announced Rs 5 lakh each for the families of the two persons killed in police firing at Ukhrul yesterday. Speaking to media

IMPHAL, August 31: The State government has today announced Rs 5 lakh each for the families of the two persons killed in police firing at Ukhrul yesterday.

Speaking to media persons at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences today, during an inspection of those injured in police action to control a rally in Ukhrul yesterday, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh who was accompanied by deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam extended Rs 5 lakh each to the families of Ramkashing Vashi and Mayopam Ramror.

The Chief Minister also extended monetary support to four victims who were injured during the Ukhrul rally.

The victims are admitted for treatment at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Science (JNIMS).

Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh along with his deputy Gaikhangam who also holds the Home ministry portfolio visited JNIMS and extended monetary support of Rs 50,000 to the four victims hospitalised there.

He also gave assurance to bear all medical expenses of their treatment during his visit.

The family members of the injured victims said that they were satisfied with the ongoing treatment in the hospital and also expressed gratitude to the CM for the financial support.

JNIMS authorities have said that two of the injured namely SK Raiagam, 27 years, son of SK Timothy of Kachai and Muinow Ngachonmei, 30 years, son of Muinow David of Somdal Village have been shifted to two different hospitals.

The former has been shifted to RIMS whereas the latter was shifted to Raj Medicity.

The other two identified as HR Reishangjoy, 30 years, son of Hr Gedion of Tanrui Ramhon and Rachamgam Horam, 24 years, son of Helpon Horam of Kharasom are still undergoing treatment at the JNIMS hospital.

Grand funerals planned for two victims at Ukhrul’s TNL Ground

By R Lester Makang UKHRUL, August 31: To mark the funeral services of the two victims (L) Ramkashing Vashi and (L) Mayopam Ramror who were killed here during a peaceful

By R Lester Makang

UKHRUL, August 31: To mark the funeral services of the two victims (L) Ramkashing Vashi and (L) Mayopam Ramror who were killed here during a peaceful demonstration on August 30 by Manipur Police commandos, a grand programme has been planned at the Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) Ground at 12 pm on Monday.

“We are planning to hold a grand funeral services for our martyrs who laid down their lives for the cause of our people,” said TNL vice-president SD Reisang on Sunday adding that the program will be held under the aegis of the United Naga Council (UNC) and is expected to be attended by a whopping 20, 000 delegates from 16 Naga tribes representing Naga Hohos and different Naga frontal organizations of all Naga districts in the State.

Further stating that a fitting tribute would be paid to the dear departed souls in front of all Naga brethren, he informed that interment has been planned inside TNL Ground itself.

“We have already inspected the site for the same,” he added.

Meanwhile, sources said that post mortem on the two bodies has commenced late in the evening at Ukhrul District Hospital with the arrival of autopsy experts from Imphal today.

It may be mentioned that since yesterday people from different localities of the township have been showing solidarity with the bereaved families by visiting round the clock and attending the wake to keep watch over the mortal remains at the district hospital.

Most woman visitors are seen wearing kathi kashan (mourning attire) and they sang Christian hymnals in the traditional way.

Meanwhile, sources said that local MLA Samuel Risom has today visited the hospital where the bodies of the two victims were awaiting post mortem.

He also met Ukhrul DC Modak Hrisheekesh and urged him to institute a judicial inquiry into the Saturday incident.

The MLA has reportedly questioned as to who gave the Ukhrul SP the order to fire live rounds upon the rallyists and gunned down innocent civilians.

He then urged the district administration to consider immediate revocation of the prohibitory order and withdrawal of State forces from the town.

However, attempt to contact the DC in this connection has proved futile.

Meanwhile, with the retreat of State forces and subsequent requisition of Assam Riffles personnel in the town since last night following an order from the district magistrate, the situation has been brought under control till this evening.

Accordingly, AR personnel were seen keeping a vigil around the town while a convoy of AR vehicles with CO Gaurav taking the lead could also be seen spreading the message of peace on the thoroughfare.

Vehicles draped with poster reading “Let’s maintain peace and tranquility in Ukhrul “ could be seen moving around the town.

UCM, others condemn killing of two in Ukhrul

IMPHAL, August 31: The United Committee Manipur has strongly condemned the killing of two individuals by security force during the mass protest rally at Ukhrul Town. According to a release

IMPHAL, August 31: The United Committee Manipur has strongly condemned the killing of two individuals by security force during the mass protest rally at Ukhrul Town.

According to a release of the Committee, the two deceased individuals identified as Ayopam Ramror, 39 of Tuinem Village, Ukhrul and VS Ramkashing, 29 were part of the rally organised by UNC resisting the CRPC-144 order, the deployment of the excessive State security forces and to pressurise the government to hasten the Indo-Naga peace talk.

The Committee also shared the sorrows of the aggrieved families.

The committee has stated that instead of setting up CRPC-144 at selected areas, the government must put up Security Outpost for Law and Order under Home Department, General Policy, it said.

The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has vehemently condemned the killing of two innocent civilians and injuring many people at Ukhrul town.

In a press release, the federation questions the State government about the rationale behind the promulgation of section 144 CrPC and still continuing to impose the section when the public has sought to do away with the 144 CrPC.

It said yesterday’s incident has clearly shown the intention of the State government that the Manipur commandos and IRB are deployed in the district not for safeguarding but for militarisation and bring fear psychosis in the minds of the peace loving citizens.

“There is not an iota of reason to open fire randomly and bombard the town when the public is democratically carrying out peaceful procession,” it said.

Further according to the statement, the NSF has also asked the State government to give enough compensation to the demised families and also take care of all the medical needs for the injured persons and further demanded the Central government to set up an independent enquiry body to thoroughly investigate the incident and punish the concerned officer(s) responsible for the mayhem at Ukhrul.

The Autonomous District Council (ADC), Ukhrul has also strongly condemned the armed aggression against the peace initiative rally organised by UNC to remove CrPC 144 in Ukhrul and other districts.

In a separate press release, it said the government of Manipur led by Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam who is also in charge of the Home department are responsible for the incident and the State government should immediately remove the 144 CrPC and State forces from Ukhrul.

The Committee on Human Rights (COHR), Manipur has also expressed its strong condemnation on the killing of Ramkashing Vashi and Mayopam Ramroar and injuring many other by the security forces during a peace rally demanding removal of CrPC 144 in Ukhrul.

In a press release the organisation has stated that it was the negligence of the government which led to occurrence of the unfortunate incident and further appealed to the government to take up actions according to the law against the security personnel who were responsible for the incident and end up the clash between civilian and government in a democratic way.

The North East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) has also said in a press release that it strongly condemns the killing of two protesters in Ukhrul, Manipur.

The State government’s attitude towards its minorities is very conspicuous seeing incidents like these, it said before adding that it will always stand against such oppression in any part of the world.

Continuing further on the August 30 incident at Ukrul, it said all the protesters were unarmed and were participating in a peaceful protest when Manipur police commandos and jawans of the India Reserve Battalion fired on the protesters indiscriminately.

“If such incidents re-occur NEFIS will call a nation-wide protest against the Manipur state’s oppression on people’s movement,” said the statement.

Our Kangpokpi Correspondent adds:

The All Tribal Students’ Union, Manipur today made a trip to Ukhrul in connection with the August 30 incident where two persons were allegedly killed and several others injured in police firing.

The Emboi Serto group of the ATMSUM asserted that the incident was immaculately inhuman.

The student body president Emboi Serto said that not a single security personnel, forget about IRB and Commandos, even a single state police force whom the state Government christened ‘Law enforcer” could not be seen anywhere today at Ukhrul before adding that only Army and Para military force were seen.

The ATSUM team visited Ukhrul district hospital and met with the injured persons admitted there and had a meeting with several civil bodies as well continued Emboi.

He said that after thorough evaluation the incident happened to be totally inhuman.

Emboi also said that the union is seriously concerned over the incident and the brutality of the State force towards the people and the tribal in particular.

He added that it is inconceivably hard to live in a place like Manipur where law enforcers turn to law breakers and protectors turn to destructors.

While ATSUM robustly condemned the rough treatment of the security forces it will cling with and endorse any positive and justifiable groups or individual working for justice of the Ukhrul victims, Emboi added.

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Former minister officially joins BJP

IMPHAL, August 31: The Manipur Pradesh BJP has officially announced the enrolment of a former minister, an ADC member of the Congress and an independent ADC member. During the closing

IMPHAL, August 31: The Manipur Pradesh BJP has officially announced the enrolment of a former minister, an ADC member of the Congress and an independent ADC member. During the closing function of the month long commemoration “Athoubasing Gi Ningshing Tha” in the BJP office at Nityaipat Chukhek, State BJP president Th Chaoba claimed that the BJP was becoming more powerful day by day.

Today three more leaders from the Congress and other parties have officially joined the party, he added.

Revealing that former minister T Goujalung; Congress ADC member from Tamenglong, Lungsu Pamei; and Independent ADC member of Tamenglong G Aphang have joined the party officially, he said the BJP Yuva Morcha has organised a month long commemoration of Martyrs from August 1 to August 31.

We Manipuris are the grandchildren of the brave freedom fighters who sacrificed their precious lives for the motherland, he added.

Urging the youths of the State to imbibe the courage of our ancestors, he said we must imitate their tolerance, sense of sacrifice and patriotic feeling because we also have the same blood as our brave forefathers.

The BJP Yova Morcha president O Malesh said that the Yuva Morcha has been being conducting the month long 18th Martyrs’ month from August 1 and have conducted spot painting competition, social service drives, sport competition etc.

Today, we conducted a patriotic song competition, he added.

State BJP President Thounaojam Chaoba, Professor Gangumei Kamei, BJP spokesperson S Ibohal and O Malesh were among the prominent persons who were present in the closing function.

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“India’s role crucial in balance of world power”

IMPHAL, August 31: An international peace conference under the theme “Building Nations of Peace: Our Shared Responsibility” was held today at Political Science Lecture hall of Manipur University. The conference was attended by 11 members from Japan, US, Korea, was jointly organised by Universal Peace Federation of India (UPF) and Department of Political Science, Manipur University.

The topic of this event was about the balance of power in the world.

Speaking at the conference, UPF-Asia chairman Dr Chung Sik Yong said in this new Asian era, India plays a very critical role as it is the world’s largest democracy and the second most populous nation on earth.

Our world faces a multitude of challenges- from climate changes and poverty to geopolitical tension, terrorism and interreligious conflict, from family breakdown and crime to moral and spiritual confusion, he added.

Assuring that all have encountered many of these same challenges in their own nations and regions, he said these problems cannot be solved through the instruments of government alone because their root cause in not exclusively political or economic in nature.

The root cause is rather buried deep in the human heart: in selfishness and separation from God, he added.

Dr Chung Sik Yong, another Korean member, said the family is the most fundamental and necessary of all human institutions. Without it, humanity cannot survive as a species; he said, adding that when it fails, the society, nation and world fails. When we restore the health of marriage and family, center on god, we can restore societies, nations and the world, he added.

Stressing that the family is the school of love because we learn the nature of love there, he said we learn how to love in our families.

Everyone knows it is true because when families break up or become dysfunctional then gangs, violence, prostitution and drugs become prominent in a community, he added.

Lecturing on the introduction of peace, UPF-Asia principal director of education, Dr Robert S Kittel said that to build peace there is a need to have the principal to love others and sacrifice for others.

Prof (retd) Ksh Bimola Devi stated that even Mahatma Gandhi also accepted that the individual is the one to build peace which will extend further to others. Every individual have the power to reason and differentiate between what is wrong and what is right.

During the International conference which was participated by various eminent personalities from various parts of the country, she highlighted the role of Irom Shramila Chanu and her struggle for the repeal of AFSPA for the last 14 years.

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