Imphal, October 04: The Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights has expressed support and solidarity with the demands of North East Students' Organization and its 12 hour bandh call in the entire North East.

In a statement, the rights body stated that the issues raised by NESO such as repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, resolving the illegal influx of migrants from the across the international borders and employment guarantees for the people in different institutions based in the region are genuine human rights concerns which demands immediate redress by the Government of India.

It also condemned the bomb blasts at Dimapur and Assam and said that such kind of act should be condemned by one all.

The urgency of the situations require the Government of India to seriously prioritize its machinery to address the genuine demands and aspiration of the people by arriving at appropriate political settlements instead of justifying intensification of militarization through such failure to protect the lives and properties of the people in the region, it said.

NPMHR also support the NESO call for closing down of the various counter-insurgency training centers in the region.

It is a total paradox when the so call democratic Indian state is promoting and selling its expertise on counter-insurgency to other countries across the world while crushing the democratic demands of its people through military means denying the basic human dignity.

The statement further said that the North east region should be freed from being used as an experimental lab for the benefits of some few vested interests.

Let not the blood of our martyred brothers and sisters be merely a blemish in the soil.

It added that it issued the statement to express solidarity with NESO initiative for a nonviolent and democratic demonstration on October 5 to press against the apathy and insensitive attitude of the Government of India towards the people�s aspiration of the north east region including the Naga homeland.

Meanwhile, the Flemish Support Group for Indigenous Peoples, express its profound sorrow and shares its sympathy with the victims of the bomb blasts at Dimapur Railway Station and Hong Kong Market, as well as with their families.

KWIA calls on the authorities not to let this horrible crime unpunished but to take swift action to identify the culprits and subsequently punish them according to law.

All Assam Manipuri Students� Union has extended its full support to the 12-hour North East bandh called by NESO.

The central committee of the Union has taken a decision in this regard and appealed to the people to support the bandh.

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