No help from Ccpur police BSF: Torbung club
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 11 2023:
The communal clash between Meetei and Kuki could had been averted had Churachandpur district po-lice and BSF acted swiftly and controlled the situation when torching of houses at Torbung began on May 3 afternoon in-stead of remaining as silent spectators, stated Torbung Bangla Social Welfare Club ad-visor Laishram Tomba Meitei and urged government to take up necessary action to enable the displaced villagers return home.
Addressing media persons at Manipur Press Club Thursday, Laishram Tomba said 116 out of 120 houses belonging to Meetei community of Torbung were torched and reduced to ashes in the communal violence.
If Churachandpur district police and BSF had acted in time and controlled the situation instead of remaining as silent spectator when vandalism by Kuki start-ed in Torbung, the communal clash in the state could had been averted, Tomba said.
Instead of keeping unfit BSF post in Torbung area, villagers prefer opening of a police com-mando outpost and this could help Torbung villagers staying at different relief camps to re-turn at their respective homes, Tomba said adding that villag-ers suspect role of a top police officer in the communal clash.
If state police could recover items looted from abandoned houses in the valley, why could not police recover properties openly looted from abandoned 0.7 houses in Churachandpur, Tomba opined.
According to Tomba, many people who fled during the communal clash are current-ly taking shelter at Moirang Thamnapokpi relief camp and there is no shortage for food as of now due to help from public.
However, these peo-ple cannot live permanently at relief camps, he said and urged government to take up necessary action for return of the displaced people to their respective homes.
While informing that sus-pected Kuki militants kid-napped two villagers from Torbung Bangla and one from Tera Khongsangbi, Tomba ap-pealed to authority concerned to take up necessary steps to release the villagers.