{"id":13591,"date":"2011-08-04T21:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T01:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=21721"},"modified":"2011-08-04T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T01:10:37","slug":"sangakpham-we-deserve-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2011\/08\/04\/sangakpham-we-deserve-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Sangakpham: We deserve to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';var addthis_options=\"Google+1\"<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 A. Bimol Akoijam<\/p>\n<p>In a swift response, the Chief Minister of Manipur said that the  terrorist violence that struck Sangakpham on 1st August, 2011 was the  handiwork of NSCN (I-M). This is a development which is quite  uncharacteristic of the Govt. of Manipur on such incidents or as an  editorial in the Sangai Express, a leading newspaper in Imphal puts it,  &#8220;can&#8217;t\u00a0really recollect the last time that a case of this proportion was  laid bare so fast and so conclusively&#8221;.\u00a0However, the said organization,  according to a report released by Newsmai News Network from Dimapur,  has denied the allegation. Besides, according to a press report,  contrary to the statement made by the Chief Minister at the Press  Conference on 2nd August, 2011, the Koren (Koireng) Youth Organization  has denied that the suspected bomber one Anthony s\/o Bonkolung of Sadu  Koireng is &#8220;a resident of Sadu Koireng Village, Saikul sub-division\u2026and  he is not known to the people of Koireng\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21550\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 556px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Pic-August-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21550 \" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Pic-August-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CM O Ibobi Singh inspecting the site of Sangakpam bomb blast. Source: Imphal Free Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The  contradictory reports do not help the citizens who are at the receiving  end of such violent and atrocious crime. This being the case, we, as  citizens must know the truth as to who is\/are behind the dastardly and  gruesome act at Sangakpham. The government must put the system and  institutions at its disposal to task so as to come out with the truth  and bring those who are responsible for the crime to justice at the  earliest.<\/p>\n<p>And we as citizens must also know that we must  not rest till the institutions for investigations and protecting the  life and dignity of the people are made to perform their assigned and  expected duties and responsibilities. Only then, we can expect to live  with certain sense of normative and institutional mechanisms of a  civilized life.<\/p>\n<p>All those who cried out for justice, and  those who have statements such as \u201cenough is enough\u201d etc must put their  statements into action by seeking and pursuing this: to know the truth  and make the above institutions accountable. Only then, can one say that  their slogans and outpouring of emotions have some sense and value.  Otherwise, those statements shall remain as symptoms of a pathological  mind which make them vulnerable to atrocious violence and indignity.<\/p>\n<p>This being the case, we deserve to know:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who is Anthony, the suspected bomber?<\/p>\n<p>b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  What are the material and circumstantial evidences on the basis of  which the officials have established the identity of the suspected  bomber and the organization of which he was a member or on whose behalf  he allegedly carried out the heinous act?<\/p>\n<p>c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As per  the statement of the Chief Minister, the Bajaj scooter (Chetak) which  was allegedly used in the blast had a Nagaland number (NL-O1E\/1394)  registered in the name of one K. Daniel s\/o K. Angami of Diphu Par,  Dimapur (Nagaland). Now the question is:<\/p>\n<p>i) Was this  information based on the recovery of the necessary document(s) from the  blast site or provided by authorities in Nagaland?<\/p>\n<p>ii) Has the  investigating agency in the state kept in touch with their counterpart  in Nagaland on this matter a) to establish the facts of the case and b)  to trace the owner for further questioning?<\/p>\n<p>d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ISTV  news mentioned that the Union Home Minister also reportedly blamed NSCN  (I-M) for the blast at Sangakpham. (There was one line in Morung express  which also reported the statement of the Union Home Minister). If this  is so, which agency has given them this news? This is crucial for two  reasons: a) The Union Government has been in talks with the said  organization and b) for the deeply ethicized and communalized mindset,  the words of the Government of Manipur can be subjected slanderous  allegation. <strong>Moreover<\/strong>, <strong>this has serious  implication for the \u201cground rules\u201d of the \u201ccease fire\u201d between the  Government of India and the NSCN (I-M), which, as far as Manipur is  concerned, is nothing more than a farcical enactment and a part of a  make-belief world of those who were ostensibly happy with the withdrawal  of the \u201cthree words\u201d from the \u201cceasefire agreement\u201d following the  so-called \u201cuprising\u201d in Manipur in 2001. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We  must avoid communally charged perspective; what we have seen at  Sangakpham is the display of a horrible act of a naked and illegitimate  violence that attack the life and dignity of the citizens. Democratic  ethos demands accountability of institutions and transparency for a  civilized life in the state. And we must work to restore such  institutional imperatives, not hollow talks and rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By  the way, such a note as this one is something that one can legitimately  expect to come in media in Manipur. I am sure that many of us have seen  such reports and news analysis in media across the globe following such  incidents. If it doesn\u2019t come, it only speaks of our media guys just as  it speaks of the people of Manipur in general. It\u2019s time to take  responsibility, each one of us, for a change. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=0475f7f1-dcdb-4aad-a747-72ee7a97f139\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/08\/sangakpham-we-deserve-to-know\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/08\/sangakpham-we-deserve-to-know\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0 A. Bimol Akoijam In a swift response, the Chief Minister of Manipur said that the terrorist violence that struck Sangakpham on 1st August, 2011 was the handiwork of NSCN&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/08\/sangakpham-we-deserve-to-know\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[110,31,64,449,33,43,330,661,34,618,96,621,639,662],"class_list":["post-13591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-dimapur","tag-government","tag-government-of-india","tag-imphal-free-press","tag-india","tag-k-featured","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-list-of-chief-ministers-of-manipur","tag-manipur","tag-naga-people","tag-nagaland","tag-national-socialist-council-of-nagaland","tag-notes-from-bimol-akoijam","tag-okram-ibobi-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}