Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 31:
Even as a team of All Naga Students' Association Manipur has rushed to New Delhi to apprise central leaders on the chaotic situation prevailing at Manipur, the Maring Students' Union (MSU) has warned of launching agitation in the hill districts if the Government do not lift the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the State immediately.
The Maring student body also expressed its support to the ongoing agitation called by the 32 voluntary organizations Asserting that rapes, murders and tortures by the security forces have increased considerably since imposition of the Act in the State since 1980, the union said that the only way to free the people from the hands of the armies' cruelty was to remove the act.
It also questioned the rationale behind the imposition of such black laws when it has completely failed to meet its objective of suppressing insurgency movement in the State.
Meanwhile, ANSAM representatives left for the national capital today to call on the All India Congress Committee (I) president Sonia Gandhi and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to demand lifting of AFSPA from the entire North Eastern region States and expedite peace process on the decades old Naga problem for an amicable solution.
Talking to The Sangai Express today ANSAM president Paulhring Langhu also said that the student body in consultation with representatives of AMSU, MSF and North East Students Organization (NESO) would chalk out steps to agitate for removal of black laws from the region at New Delhi today.