June 18 Uprising Day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 17 2017:
All necessary preparations have been made for the " 16th Great June Uprising, Unity Day" observance to be organ- ised jointly by All Manipur United Clubs' Organisation (AMUCO) and United Com mittee, Manipur (UCM) at Kekrupat tomorrow.
It may be mentioned that on June 18, 2001, people of: Manipur agitated in protest against the 'without territorial limit' clause that was included in the Bangkok Declaration as a part of the peace talk between Indian Government and NSCN (IM) .
The protestors destroyed and set on fire the Manipur Legislative Assembly build ing, offices of political parties and several quarters of the then Ministers and MLAs.
In an attempt to control the: outrage, security forces re sorted to firing in which 18 persons were killed.