{"id":31475,"date":"2012-05-05T03:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T07:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=30890"},"modified":"2012-05-05T03:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T07:39:35","slug":"justice-for-richard-loitam-candle-light-vigil-at-new-delhi-%e2%80%93-msad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/05\/05\/justice-for-richard-loitam-candle-light-vigil-at-new-delhi-%e2%80%93-msad\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for Richard Loitam candle light vigil at New Delhi \u2013 MSAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MG_9741.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30714\" title=\"Protest against the murder of Loitam Richard at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on April 29\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MG_9741.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Press Release<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">New Delhi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The Manipur Students\u2019 Association Delhi (MSAD) had organised a demonstration and a candle light vigil on 29 April 2012 to condole the untimely lost of Richard Loitam and to protest his murder on 17<sup>th<\/sup> April by his hostel mates and the denial of justice. MSAD had held institutionalised racism by established institutions including the law enforcing agents as the gravest threat to the security of racial minorities and a big challenge to humanity and justice in India. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The demonstration at Jantar Mantar from 2.00 to 5.30 pm., that began with two minutes silent condolence was attended by above 300 persons including the representatives of Arunachal Students\u2019 Union Delhi, BJP (Northeast Cell), Aavam (Delhi), Campaign for Peace &amp; Democracy (Manipur), Delhi A\u2019chik Youth Association (Meghalaya), Delhi Association for Manipuri Muslim Students, MSAD, Manipur Women Gun Survivor Network, Naga Students\u2019 Union Delhi, Northeast Helpline Centre, Zakir Hussain College Students\u2019 Union, Zillai (Mizo), and others. The candle light vigil at India Gate, 6 to 8 pm was attended by more than 700 persons. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span>All those who had attended the programmes had condemned the crime and expressed their concern for the aggrieved family of Richard. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">A memorandum endorsed by all and addressed to the Prime Minister of India (copied to Union Home Minister, Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Manipur) had raised the following demands:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">To set up a special investigation team to transparently investigate into the case and those held guilty be booked immediately.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The Acharya NAV School of Architecture and the officials be booked and punished according to the law for the negligence towards Richard, tampering of evidences, hindering and for impending the case. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">To take up immediate and adequate initiatives to ensure security of the emigrant workers (employees), job seekers and students from the Northeast who are vulnerable and exposed to all forms of racial discrimination and attack in the mainland metropolitan cities and institutional establishments.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The case should be converted to a homicidal case as the preliminary post mortem report shows proofs of severe physical assault and internal injury which is the cause of death.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Investigations should be swift and thorough.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">MSAD had called upon the people cutting across community, territorial, and political boundaries to collectively fight for justice and against institutionalised racism in India.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Sd\/-<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Md. Shafikul Haque<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">President, MSAD<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2012\/05\/justice-for-richard-loitam-candle-light-vigil-at-new-delhi-msad\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2012\/05\/justice-for-richard-loitam-candle-light-vigil-at-new-delhi-msad\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release New Delhi \u00a0 The Manipur Students\u2019 Association Delhi (MSAD) had organised a demonstration&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2012\/05\/justice-for-richard-loitam-candle-light-vigil-at-new-delhi-msad\/\">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":[1051,330,1069,221,100,1047],"class_list":["post-31475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-justice-for-richard-loitam","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-manipur-students-association","tag-msad","tag-press-release","tag-richard-loitam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475","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=31475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}