Condemn Racial Attack Of Lal Bruce Thangkhal And Demand Justice
New Delhi, December 11, 2015
Lal Bruce Thangkhal
MSAD STRONGLY CONDEMN THE RACIAL ATTACK OF LAL BRUCE THANGKHAL AND DEMAND JUSTICE
Lal Bruce Thangkhal, a Manipuri youth media coordinator of North East Support Centre and Helpline (NESCH) Delhi suffered extensive injury when a group of man assaulted him racially in Gurgaon on December, 08th around 8 P.M.
President of Manipur Students’ Association Delhi (MSAD) Miraj Shah Kori along with Finance Secretary Muhammad Ali and Sanabam Kennedy visited the victim of the Gurgaon assault on December 11th, 2015. MSAD found the incident as such from the victim;
He attended an advance Christmas party in Gurgaon on 08th December 2015 joined the party from 2 P.M to 6 P.M followed by a discussion about the North East people with those members who are attending over the party. He said that at around 8 pm when he was walking down coming back from the party 4 drunk men without any reason started passing lewd remarks. When he objected they abused racially and assaulted him.
When those guys were attacking him, one Manipuri girl objected those goons. But they threatened her to leave the place and she was almost beaten. He was lying in a pool of blood unconsciously. When the girl came back along with some Manipuri friends the goons had already absconded the place as they thought he was killed. The girls took the victim to Uma Sanjeevani Hospital Gurgaon sec-56 Haryana.
Police took his statement in the following morning December 09 after he regains his consciousness and FIR was registered immediately. Regarding the incident he said because of our appearance we NE people are vulnerable to any kind of racial abused and prone to physical assault. He also alarmed if such incident occurs to other people unlike him they will find it difficult as most of them do not know whom to approach. He wants to convey the NE people through MSAD to be more sensitive and aware of the helpline and authorities who are responsible for safety of the NE people.
MSAD stand by Lal Bruce Thangkhal who is the pioneer in fighting for the rights of NE people and against injustice like racial discrimination which unfortunately the said leader became the victim. MSAD demands and seek the attention to the concerned authorities regarding the followings:
i. MSAD strongly condemn any kind of racial discrimination and racial attack in any part of the country and appealed the people of North East to fight it collectively.
ii. MSAD is committed to fight any sorts of attacks against our people and we are promise to fight for our justice with our tooth and nails.
iii. The Gurgaon commissioner of police should take up all the necessary actions to arrest the culprits and to bring the justice of Lal Bruce Thangkhal at the earliest.
iv. The Govt. of Manipur should intervene in any racial attack engaged in any part of the country for the rights and justice for the people of Manipur.
v. The Government of Manipur should bear all the medical expenses of Mr. Lal Bruce Thangal.
vi. The government of Haryana should reimburse medical expenses in the treatment of Lal Bruce Thangkhal and should guarantee the wellbeing of the same.
The Government of India should responsible for and be sensitive for the incident of incident of Lal Bruce Thangkhal. MSAD observes that this incident is part of the continuous racial discrimination by the mainland Indian. MSAD stand by the statement “North East people don’t deserve any inferior treatment from anyone”.
Issued by
Kh. Yaiphaba
Vice President, and
Public and Relation Secy. In charge
Office of the Manipur Students’ Association Delhi (MSAD)
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This Press Release was posted on December 12 2015
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