24th Students' Rights Day Observed Under The Aegis Of AMSU Bishnupur
Fitting tributes paid to martyred students
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 28 2013: The 24th Students' Rights Day (Maheiroishingi Hak Kanba Numit)was observed today at Moirang Multipurpose Higher Secondary School under the aegis of AMSU, District Committee.

The function was attended by AMSU Hqs president Thiyam Naresh, AMSU Bishnupur district committee president Salam Open and Moirang Multipurpose Hr Sec School Principal S Kumar as chief guest, president and guest of honour respectively.

The main feature of the observance was offering of floral tributes to photographs of martyred students.

Giving the key-note address of the function, AMSU Bishnupur District Committee general secretary said that people of Manipur have been enduring all kinds of repressive measures for the past many decades since the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 was imposed in the State.

In the meantime, the Government of India has been consistently scheming to re-draw the political boundary of Manipur in order to appease some groups.

Students paying tributes

Moirang Multipurpose Hr Sec School student Haobijam Ibohal was shot dead on September 30, 1973 by security forces mercilessly as students of the school were staging a protest demonstration demanding fulfilment of the school's shortages.

Even after H Ibohal was shot, grievances of the students were not addressed.

Subsequently, students of the school launched relay hunger strike in May 1979.Five students who were fasting in the night of May 27, 1979 were arrested by police.

Demanding immediate release of the arrested students whose whereabouts were then kept secret, a large number of students launch an intensive agitation.

Many students were taken into police custody and Ibohal, the then OC of Moirang PS opened fire at the lock-up where the students were being detained.

Even doctors who came to attend to the injured students were not allowed entry.

Hit by bullets and denied medical treatment, Urikhinbam Khelen and Kumam Sarat died due to excessive bleeding on May 18 same year.

It was in memory of those martyred students that Students' Rights Day was being observed today, said the general secretary.