Senapati, Aug 21NNN: Rendering a Good Samaritan service today to the home-bound students and people of Manipur from elsewhere India, the United Naga Council (UNC), All Naga Students Association, Manipur (ANSAM), Naga Peoples Organisation (NPO), Senapati District Students Association (SDSA), Mao Council, Karong and Senapati Towm Committee, Senapati District Women Association (SDWA) and others provided snacks and other comforts at Mao Gate in the Manipur-Nagaland border.
The surprise students and others who have fled their work places in southern cities of India today experienced a welcome treat from these Naga organisations at Mao Gate.
More than 150 people were accorded and given snacks at the relief camp opened by these Naga organisations at the border town. The Naga civil bodies have planned to open the relief camp for the next two weeks and if need be the duration will be extended, said a source.
Some of the students while interacting with the Naga civil body leaders said that though they were not physically assaulted nor threatened directly but they were fleeing as SMSs were doing the round that August 20 was the deadline given for the North East people to leave their respective places from some of the south Indian cities. Some of them narrated that their friends were threatened and even assaulted physically. Some even alleged they heard of snatching of cell phones from their friends by miscreants.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Naga organisations at Mao Gate have opened the relief camp not only to provide snacks and other comforts but to act as a moral booster to the already shocked and traumatised students and people who are fleeing to their respective home state. These Naga organisations also acted as guides while looking for vehicles to various destinations.
Meanwhile, it has been witnessed that people from the North East are fleeing from the their work places from Indian cities mostly in the south since the last few days following the heightening apprehension of the escalation of violence against them from certain quarters.
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