Root cause of increasing crime against women, children discussed
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Kakching, July 10 2014: 'Increasing lack of basic needs of human beings has been a cause for various crimes in the society', said Babloo Loitongbam, Executive Director of Human Rights Alert while speaking as resource person at a one-day public meeting on crimes against women and children organised by Women Actions For Development (WAD) Manipur in collaboration with Meira Paibi groups and other organizations of Khangabok area at Khullakpam Leikai Eigya Lala Mandop in Khangabok-I of Thoubal district today.

He said that the facilities and benefits of government schemes entitled to the citizens do not properly reach the intended general public as they are being misappropriated by a few powerful people, and added that it leads to various forms of crimes in the society.

Root cause of increasing crime against women, children discussed

Earlier, the security forces resorted to arrest and carry out atrocities on common people.

However, with people's movement leading to intervention of the Supreme Court, such crimes have apparently decreased to a great extent, Babloo stated.

Responding to the call of the aggrieved people, the Supreme court instituted a high level commission to investigate into the crimes perpetrated by the security forces and has now realised the extreme criminality of the security forces, he added.

On the other hand, crimes against women and children have drastically increased during the last few years, due to non-availability of basic needs of human beings in the society, he said, while alleging that the development schemes meant for the welfare of the general public have been hijacked by a few powerful people for their personal well-being, thereby rendering the people poor.

Accordingly, people are using various means to earn their basic needs while the weak and helpless are becoming the victims in the process.

Babloo also stressed on the need for a mass movement against the crimes perpetrated against women and children.

Pointing out the need to curb increasing acts of violence against women, murders, rapes and human trafficking in the society, Joshila Devi, Project Co-ordinator of WAD, said that her organisation has been organising such programmes at various places of the state to bring awareness among the people.

She called upon the people to unitedly pursue the demand for proper investigations into suicide cases and unnatural deaths occurred in the state, to provide Special Training for the police and to set up a special investigation team to deal with crimes against women and children. L.Pishak Singh Secretary of New Life Foundation, Bishnupur also took part in the programme a resource person, while Pradhan of Khangabok part-I Gram Panchayat Kh.

Rajmohon Singh, up-Pradhan L.Santa Singh and Secretary of VEDSCO Khangaok M.Shyamtombi Singh attended as presidium members.

As part of the event, victims of various crimes also took out a rally from Khangabok Lamlong Bazar shouting slogans like 'Set up Women Protection Force', 'Save women and save the next generation', 'Respect women's rights', 'We want justice, not ex-gratia', 'Stop killing women', etc.