Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 13:
Amid tight security arrangements, several hundred family members, relatives of PLA cadres slain in the 1982 Kodompokpi encounter and well wishers offered floral tributes besides placing red stars at the Cheiraoching Memorial site today.
However, security force personnel prevented the family members and relatives from offering similar tribute at Kodompokpi.
At Cheiraoching, where people climbed the hilllock from early hours, security men registered names of the tribute offerers even as the uniformed men stopped the tribute payers at Mekola Bazar.
Meanwhile, Families' Committee For Observation of April 13 has expressed its heartfelt gratitude to all the organisations and individuals who came to Cheiraoching and paid floral tributes to the four persons gunned down by security forces at Kodompokpi in 1982.