Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 08:
Adding another dimension to the ongoing mass movement for lifting of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 from Manipur, the artistes of Cosmopolitan Dramatic Union, Kongba Bazar, Im-phal staged a street play entitled 'Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958' to highlight excesses being committed by security personnel on the people with immunity granted under the repressive Act today at 2 pm at the Bazar.
The street play was performed as part of the sit-in-protest demonstration organized by the theatre artistes to contribute their mite in the ongoing movement for demanding action against the guilty Assam Rifles personnel involved in extra-judicial killing of Thangjam Manorama and lifting of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Manipur.
Festoons and banners inscribed with slogans like 'No to arm solution, yes to political solution', 'Silence is not golden in politics.
Talk and discuss', 'We want peace', 'Stop killing.
Stop killing' were also put up at the site of the demonstration.
A 12-member team of Manipur University Students' Union (MUSU) also performed a street play in front of MPP office this afternoon.