AMCO appeals to KCP (MC) to lift general strike
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 20 2011:
While expressing its deepest concern over the gruesome killing of the Care Taker of Irilbung Water Supply Scheme Soram Ibomcha and his son Yaiphu by armed cadres of a UG group in connection with monetary demand, All Manipur Christian Organisation (AMCO) has appealed to KCP (MC) to withdraw its proposed general strike from 5 am of December 21 to 5 am of December 24 in the public interest.
KCP (MC) has called the 36-hour general strike in condemnation of the killing.
In a statement, President of AMCO Rev S Prim Vaiphei fervently appealed to KCP (MC) to withdraw the proposed general strike in public interest in consideration of the upcoming Christmas festival.
Rev Prim Vaiphei pointed out that as the Christmas celebration is approaching, many Manipuri students and workers staying outside the state would be coming home for Christmas and they would be stranded on the way.
Moreover, many poor families of the hill and the valley would be coming for Christmas shopping during these coming days.
Denouncing the killing of the caretaker and his son, the AMCO President observed that such practice of abduction and killing of innocent people is a crime against God and the people and must be condemned by one and all.
"If you cannot give life, don't take the life of someone, it is God given life.
Taking someone's life will never do good to the society and the country", Rev Prim Vaiphei declared.
He went on to point out that AMCO has been trying to eradicate injustice and corruption and cultivate love and concern among the people of Manipur, While the SHDDC and the UNC imposed prolonged economic blockade and counter-blockade respectively, the AMCO members went to meet the agitators and had prayer with them, and earnestly requested them to relax the blockades on humanitarian ground.
In the previous years too, when NSF of Nagaland ban vehicles bearing registration number of Manipur to enter Nagaland, AMCO team went to Kohima several times and requested them to lift the ban.