Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 11:
Kuki Students Organisation Gen HQs has called a 12 hr hill district bandh on August 12 from 4 am to 4 in the evening as a mark of protest against the excesses committed by security personnel and non-compliance of directives issued by Supreme Court with regard to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
Terming the cold blooded murder of pastor Jamkholet Khongsai and Th Manorama by personnel of Assam Rifles as inhuman and barbaric, the student body strongly condemned the State Govt for not constituting a judicial inquiry into the murder of Jamkholet Khongsai.
The union also appealed to the State Govt to compensation to the family members of Pastor Jamkholet Khongsai and help them live a decent life.
Asserting that AFSPA have been responsible for the deaths of numerous innocent Kuki civilians in the last few decades, the union appealed to the State Govt to revoked the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the State immediately to save innocent lives in future.