13 July Moreh Terror Attack
20th July 2018, Molnoi
Even after seven days, the government have not arrested the culprits of the premeditated savage terror attacks on civilian residential houses in Moreh at 2 am on 13 July 2018 by Suspected heavily Unknown armed Militants .
In what can be described as one of the deadliest terror or militant attacks in the history of Manipur, the armed militants numbering about ten or more used sophisticated weapons including automatic rifles, lethod bombs and hand grenades in the attack that lasted for over 45 minutes to inflict maximum casualty and deaths on innocent civilians. The attackers also assaulted Paokhogin Haokip, Lambu, ADC Moreh.
The residential houses that were savagely attacked belong to Thongkhomang Touthang, Chongkholun Lhungdim and (L) Onkholet Haokip – located at Gamnom Veng, Ward Number 2, Moreh in Tengnoupal district.
Many properties, including vehicles, were also destroyed in the attack in which over 100 rounds of bullets were fired and a number of lethod bombsand hand grenades lobbed into the houses. Thongminlun Haokip, president of TSA Moreh block, his pregnant wife and two children both below five years who live in one of the houses and others have been heavily traumatised.
Clearly the attack was carried out with an evil design to cause mass murder and terror. Do we live under a democratic government that protects children and civilian population or do we live under the bondage of some armed terrorists who terrorise and murder innocent children and women?
Why have not the government taken any punitive actions against the attackers till now?
If the government is not harbouring the culprits or encouraging such terror attacks, the government must immediately hunt down and severely punish the perpetrators according to the law of the land and also take up effective preventive measures to ensure no such attacks occur again in the future.
1. To take up stringent actions against the culprits; immediately arrest all those militants involved in the attacks and the masterminds behind and bring them all to justice and also to seize their arms and weapons.
2. To remove the armed militant group responsible for the attack permanently from Moreh and its surrounds.
3. To provide financial assistance to the anguished families to compensate for the loss of properties and damaged vehicles in the attack and to provide trauma support.
If the government continues to ignore and fail to meet our demands, we will intensify our agitation until our demands are met.
(LAMVAH HAOKIP )
Chairperson
Molnoi Area Kuki women Human Right
Tengnoupal District
(LHEIKIM)
Chairperson
Kuki Women Human Right, Chandel District.
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This Press Release was posted on July 21 2018
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