Tribal Forum, Silchar holds meeting
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, September 08 2015 :
Tribal Forum, Silchar, held a meeting on Tuesday in Silchar and raised strong resentment against the Bills passed in the special session of Manipur Assembly of August 31 .
The meeting stated that the three bills passed by the Manipur Assembly were detrimental force acting against the safety of the indigenous tribal of Manipur.
The meeting agreed that declaration of the bills by the Manipur Legislative Assembly is done without the free and prior consent of the hills tribal of Manipur and is therefore, gross violation and infringement upon the indigenous rights of the tribal communities and the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous People Article 26, 1&2.Tribal Forum, Silchar also strongly condemned the killings of "innocent tribals" by police forces.