The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) on Thursday condemned the excessive police action against the displaced persons who were taking out a rally in demand that they be allowed to return to their homes.
The occupants of the relief camp at Akampat have been displaced from Moreh and their democratic rally was received by bullets, tear gas and mock bombs, resulting in the injury of many civilians and a journalist who was brutally assaulted while students and staff of a nearby school went through a traumatizing ordeal, stated a release. The security personnel involved must be given appropriate punishment, it stated.
While those languishing in relief camps are going through various challenges, their democratic form of protest, which was organised to raise their grievances, were brutally dealt with by the cops, and such forms of treatment is simply not acceptable, it stated.
It alleged both the state and central forces of failing to protect the lives and properties of Meitei villagers from the onslaught of ‘Chin Kuki Narco Terrorists’, while showing their full might by firing all the available arsenal to halt a democratic form of protest in the valley.
The whole conflict could have been ended in a matter of just five days if the security forces carried out their duties, it said. It appealed not to resort to such violent suppression of civilians when they take out democratic forms of protest in the future. The COCOMI and the masses will not remain mute spectators, it added.
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