NESO apprises Centre of continued racial crimes
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Dimapur, October 19 2014:
The North East Students' Organisation (NESO) has submitted a five-point memorandum to Union minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Saturday pertaining to series of attacks on the North East people in Delhi and elsewhere.
The first NESO demand is for setting up of Special Police Cell in all the Metros which will cater specifically to cases related to racial discrimination and atrocities on the students and people from North East in line with the Delhi model, with a provision that it is manned by police officers from NE states.
NESO also demand capital punishment to the perpetrators of the heinous crime at the earliest.
The memorandum of NESO also include the demand for inclusion of the North East - its geographical location, its people, its culture, its ethos etc.
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It then demanded that out of thousands of police personnel recruited from Delhi Police, the Govt.of India should make one time recruitment policy for at least 5000 Delhi police personnel in the respective capitals of 8 NE states.
NESO also demanded the enactment of a stringent law to deal with such crimes against the people from North East.
"NESO, comprising the Khasi Students' Union (KSU), All Assam Students' Union (AASU), Naga Students' Federation (NSF), Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), Twipra Students' Federation (TSF), All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU), Garo Students' Union (GSU) and All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) representing eight major students' movements of the seven states of the North East Region, send you this memorandum to draw your kind attention to the recent incidents in Bangalore and Gurgoan on the 15th October and the16th October respectively in which Mr T Micheal Lamjathang Haokip from Manipur was severely assaulted in Bangalore just because he does not know Kannada and Mr Awang Newmei and Mr Aloto Chishion from Nagaland were also brutally assaulted in Sikanderpur in Gurgoan," the memorandum stated.