CSOs raise Tombisana HS skeletal remains issue
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 31 2018:
A good number of civil society organisations and family members of the involuntarily disappeared have demanded the State Government to spell out the findings of the skeletal remains that were discovered at the erstwhile Tombisana High School ground in December 2014 .
This was raised during the closing function of the International Week of the Disappeared organised by the Families of the Involuntarily Disappeared's Association, Manipur (FIDAM) at Manipur Press Club today.
AMKIL president Ph Sakhi, Universal Mothers' Organisation president N Sorojini, president of Lamadong Apunba Lup Lourembam Nganbi, president of EEVFAM Renu, secretary Edina, president of FIDAM K Ranjit and representatives of other CSOs were seated on the dais.
Later addressing the media FIDAM president K Ranjit said that from 1980 to 2000 the whereabouts of 27 persons who were arrested are yet to be known.
Many demands have been raised to the Government to disclose the whereabouts of the missing people and it was against this background that the skeletal remains were found at the ground of the erstwhile Tombisana High School in 2014, he added.
The Government has since then been urged to trace the real story of how the skeletal remains were found at the school campus, he recounted.
A DNA test conducted revealed that the skeletal remains belonged to people who were in the age group of 17 to 40 years, he added.
Despite this, the then Government could not make any headway in the investigation of the case, he added.
A memorandum urging the Government to trace the genesis of the skeletal remains at the school has been submitted to the Government.