Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 10 2010:
Families' Committee for Observation of April 13 (FCO) today appealed the people of the state to take part in offering floral tributes to the departed souls those killed in the April, 13, 1982 Kondompokpi incident which would be performed at the memorial site of the victims at Chingmeirong Cheiraoching.
FCO members briefing reporters at a press conference held at Mainpur Press Club informed that an interim order of the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench on April 8 last has allowed families, relatives, and people offer floral tributes at the memorial site without any restriction.
Spokesperson of the committee, Moirangthem Jibanlata recalled that the offer of floral tributes at the memorial site at Cheiraoching was started from 1990 amidst government attempt to foil the people in offering floral tributes there at several instants.
Families of the victims have been obtaining clearances from the High Court every year to allow offering tributes at the site every year since 2001, she added.