Whose bullet killed Rabina? Rabina's husband still clueless
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, January 30 2016 : On July 23, 2009, he lost his wife and their 7 months old unborn child in a firing incident allegedly be-tween Manipur Police Com- mandos and militants at the crowded streets of Khwai-ramband bazar.

Six years from the incident, the husband has no clue whose bullet hit and killed his wife.

Thokchom Chinglensana, 28, husband of Th Rabina, in an exclusive interview with The Sangai Express today expressed disappointment with the whole system of governance prevailing in the State.

He said he does not want to find out who killed his wife as it would be a futile attempt given the present corrupted and conceited system of the State.

Recalling the unfortunate incident, Chinglensana said Rabina had dropped in at the shop where he worked on her way to a hospital.

She was accompanied by their first son Russel.

Moments after Rabina left for the hospital, firing was heard at Khwairamband bazar.

Whose bullet killed Rabina?

By 2 pm, Chinglensana managed to reach home only to learn that his wife, whom he saw a few hours earlier, had been hit by a stray bullet during the alleged encounter.

The first thing that came to his mind was his little son that accompanied Rabina, he said.

The wrongdoing of the perpetrator would not go unpunished, Chinglensana sta- ted.

If not by law, the per-son(s) would be punished for their crime by the almighty sometime or later.

Theirs was a love marriage.

Their first born Russel was only 1 and half year old when Rabina was killed.

He is now 7 years old and is studying in class III.

Time has not been able to wipe away the memories of Rabina from the family.

Her little son who witnessed the brutal incident has not fully recovered from the trauma he went through at the busy streets of Khwairamband market on July 23, 2009.Rabina's grandmother, Mayanglambam (O) RK Radhesana, 71, Thangmeiband Lourungpurel Leikai, on the other hand, has urged State Government to identify the person responsible for the death of her grand-daughter.

Radhesana terms the confessions of Herojit amidst the unending hearing and investigations on the case, a divine intervention.

Herojit in his confessions have alleged that the Chief Minister was well aware of the encounter.

Chief Minister Okram Ibobi, who also held the office of Home Minister at the time had dismissed 8 commandos related to the encounter among which Herojit was one.

Urging the CM to identify the guilty at the earliest, Radhesana said the State Government has not solved any case of deaths and/or fake encounters till date.

The people in power have turned the land into a battle ground unaware of the emotional trauma being experienced by the families of all those unsure deaths in the State, she added.