Desecrating places of education Bomb blast at MU gate
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: April 24 2015 -

Not very clear how the bomb landed there. Also not clear at all who were the intended target or targets.

Perfect opportunity for theories to start doing the round. And most probably this is what must be happening in the corridors of power.

Bomb blasts in public places are not new here.

This despite the fact that numerous appeals and pleadings have been issued by the public to stop planting bombs in places frequented by the general population.

It was more a case of good fortune that no one was killed but this is no guarantee that such devilish acts will not be repeated in the future.

No one died but this should not take away the gravity of the crime.

Consider the place of the blast. Plumb in front of the gate of Manipur University and this should be enough reason to understand where exactly places of learning stand in the eyes and consciousness of certain elements who have never hesitated in implementing their devilish designs wherever and whenever they like.

Tough to say what message the bomb planters were trying to convey but in many ways the very act of triggering a blast at such a busy place is sure to add weightage to the stand of the Centre that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act is needed to tackle violence here.

In many ways such an act runs contrary to the stand taken up by Irom Chanu Sharmila who has been waging a lone battle against the continued imposition of such a draconian Act.

Non-sensical act of violence it was but then such perpetrators have never bothered to listen to the saner voice of society.

Mission schools banned on one reason or the other and a bomb blast just in front of a place of learning and clearly there are elements here who will not hesitate in targeting places of learning to deliver a point or two.

This at this point of time when quality education has become the pass word of quite a large number of people.

Clearly something, somewhere is despicably wrong and the scary part is no one seems ready to listen to any voice of sanity.

A bomb explosion at the gate of Manipur University on April 22 and while this was not the first time that a centre for imparting education to the young students has come under the firing line, there is nothing to suggest that some lessons have been learnt from the past.

The people are tired and fed up of such acts of violence.

True no one died, but can there be any guarantee that there will be no death if such an act is repeated in the future ?

As things stand today, students are already at the receiving end of the ban imposed on Mission schools here and the latest bomb explosion case may just prove to be the proverbial last straw on the camel’s back.

The language of violence has caused enough bloodshed.

Time for all to come together and raise a collective voice against such culture of violence.

The most despicable is when justifications are trotted out as if the people are fools to lap them up. This has to stop.