National Highway bandh from midnight of November 27
Date : 27 November 2018 -
TSA calls National Highway bandh from midnight of Nov. 27 in protest against assault of TSA leader by 12 AR.
The Thadou Students’ Association, General Headquarters (TSA-GHQ) announce that there will be a state-wide national highway indefinite bandh starting from midnight of 27th November, 2018. The decision to impose bandh came after deliberate discussion among TSA GHQ and its branches to protest the inaction of authorities in the assault of TSA Secretary General, Shri Michael Lamjathang Haokip, on 12th November, 2018 at Sita Lamkhai Check post, Tengnoupal by the 12 Assam Rifles.
After the incident, we had expected the authorities to find ways to address our grievance and resolve the matter in a respectful and acceptable manner. Instead of this, the PRO of Inspector General, Assam Rifles (South) (IGAR (S) issued a highly flawed and crooked media statement on November 20, making unfounded allegations and accusations against the victim, Michael L Haokip while covering up the highhandedness of their personnel who acted against all norms and rules.
TSA Chandel & Tengnoupal has issued a counter media statement to the statement of IGAR(S). Michael Lamjathang Haokip has also on November 21 issued a rejoinder to the statement, detailing the incident of how he was assaulted and mistreated by the personnel of 12 Assam Rifles and also how he approached the Tengnoupal Police and Commanding Officer of 12 Assam Rifles at Tengnoupal to address the matter but yielded no positive result.
All that we want is respect and justice and a safe and orderly environment where general public and civilians can move free from fear of being harmed or mistreated by security personnel without any valid reason.
We would like to urge the State government and higher authorities of Assam Rifles and the Union Home Ministry to take up the following points of our demand so as to resolve the matter and prevent recurrence of such incident in future in public interest without any further delay.
1. The media statement of Assam Rifles by PRO, IGAR(S) be withdrawn immediately as it was a crooked and make-up story to fool and mislead the public, commuters, tourists.
2. The 12 Assam Rifles perform a Thadou customary apology as demanded by the Thadou Inpi, General Headquarters (Apex body of the Thadou tribe) and TSA.
3. The State police bring the culprits to justice according to the law of the land without any further delay.
Failing to fulfill the demands on or before 27th November, 2018, TSA will go ahead with the indefinite National Highways (Imphal-Moreh, Imphal-Jiribam and Imphal-Dimapur roads) bandh starting from the midnight of 27th November.
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Secretary Information & Publicity
Thadou Students' Association (TSA)
General Headquarters : Imphal, Manipur
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