Aid extended; former IAS Officer urges Govt to stop proposed mass burial programme
Source: The Sangai Express
Bpr/Tbl, August 02 2023:
In the wake of the proposed plan to bury slain Kukis at an adjoining place of Technical Service Centre and Mulberry Farm of Sericulture Department, Torbung Bangla in Bishnupur district, Retired IAS Officer Oinam Nabakishore Singh asserted that the State Government should take up strict measures to stop such acts amid the prevailing unrest in the State.
He made the above statement during a visit to the relief camp opened at Old DC Complex, Loukoipat in Bishnupur district to extend aid to the inmates who have been displaced from Churachandpur by the communal conflict.
The aid in the forms of relief and essential items were extended by 1984 Batch IAS Officers for the first phase to victims of the conflict.
Nabakishore maintained that if the State Government fails to intervene at this crucial juncture and let the mass burial to take place, then the ongoing conflict will get more worse and intense.
With an aim to provide some relief to the victims of the three-month ongoing communal conflict, the initiative has been taken up to extend aid to the displaced people by the 1984 Batch IAS Officers, he added.
Meanwhile, Tentha Apunba Nupi Lup extended aid to the village volunteers of Laingoubi in Khoijuman Tabi under Kumbi Police Station and to the inmates of Moirang Khunou Makha Leikai relief camp.
The members of Tentha Apunba Nupi Lup visited the aforementioned places and handed over the relief materials including edible items procured from the contributions made by the members.
In view of the intermittent firing by the Kuki militants upon the Meitei civilians residing at the foothills and peripheral areas, the Lup urged the Government to take up strict measures to put an end to such atrocities.
Further it called for peace and normalcy in the State considering the immense suffering of the people.