Condemnations pour in against murder of students
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, September 26 2023: Subsequent to viral photos of two missing teenagers captured and murdered, many have strongly condemned the brutal killing of students, Phijam Hemanjit and Hijam Linthoingambi by Kuki militants and demanded stringent punishment of the killers.

In separate releases, Federal Students' Organisation, Kangleipak (FESOK), Poirei Leimarol Meira Paibi Apunba Manipur, All Manipur Women's Voluntary Association (AMAWOVA), Manipuri Innovative Youth Organisation, Delhi (MAIYOND), Thawai Mirel, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (AVBP) and Peace Committee, Wangkhei Kendra said that photos of the two students who went missing since July 6 have confirmed that they were brutally killed by Kuki militants.

Stating that the two students went missing from Lamdan area where nu merous security forces were deployed, they suspected that the students might have been abducted in broad day light.

Despite demands by families, student organisations and CSOs to locate the two students, the government neglected stating that security forces could not venture into the area amid the restive situation, the releases recounted, while observing that the two students might have been killed after torture and sexual assault by the Kuki militants.

Both the state and central security forces remained idle despite knowing that the murderers are in Churachandpur district, they continued, while enquiring whether the security forces consider Churachandpur as a foreign country.

Regarding numerous condemnations from several fronts including the Prime Minister, the chief minister and elected representatives over the viral video of naked parading of two women and the subsequent arrest of 16 people, they questioned why there is no such condemnation on the killing of two innocent students.

Moreover, diverting the issue by government stating that the case has already been handed over to CBI cannot be accepted, they maintained, while adding that the government should bear all the consequences.

The organisations also denounced the atrocities meted out by the state and central forces towards the students who launched protest after knowing that the two missing two students have been killed in captivity by armed Kuki militants.

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