IDPs' stir completes fourteen days
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Dec 14: The continuous stir launched by internally displaced persons at Lamboikhongnangkhong relief camp demanding resettlement has entered the 14th day today.
Launched under the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (CO-COMI), the stir is a "re- minder to the Government of its assurance to effect resettlement of IDPs by De- cember end."
COCOMI convenor Khuraijam Athouba, United Committee Manipur (UCM) secretary general Nahakpam Shanta and Language activist Leihaothabam Saratchandra took part in the protest demonstration.
During the demonstration, the IDPs reminded that the Government has just 18 days to convert its assurance into action and allow internally displaced persons to return to their original homes and villages. While it had assured resettlement of IDPs by December, the Government is seen taking no visible actions to implement it, asserted the IDPs, urging the President's Rule administration to "walk the talk".
Khuraijam Athouba said COCOMI's members and volunteers will spend the night at Moirang College Relief camp tomorrow in solidarity with the IDPs. The decision to spend the night with IDPs at relief camp was taken to understand their suffering and plight, he said. Athouba then encouraged members of the public to take a similar stand and spend at least one night at relief camps with the IDPs. He also called on and invited Deputy Commissioners and bureaucrats to spend a night at relief camps to understand how IDPs are living their lives. Spending a night at relief camps may encourage the bureaucrats to act responsibly and address the plight of the IDPs, he said.
IMPHAL, Dec 14: The continuous stir launched by internally displaced persons at Lamboikhongnangkhong relief camp demanding resettlement has entered the 14th day today.
Launched under the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (CO-COMI), the stir is a "re- minder to the Government of its assurance to effect resettlement of IDPs by De- cember end."
COCOMI convenor Khuraijam Athouba, United Committee Manipur (UCM) secretary general Nahakpam Shanta and Language activist Leihaothabam Saratchandra took part in the protest demonstration.
During the demonstration, the IDPs reminded that the Government has just 18 days to convert its assurance into action and allow internally displaced persons to return to their original homes and villages. While it had assured resettlement of IDPs by December, the Government is seen taking no visible actions to implement it, asserted the IDPs, urging the President's Rule administration to "walk the talk".
Khuraijam Athouba said COCOMI's members and volunteers will spend the night at Moirang College Relief camp tomorrow in solidarity with the IDPs. The decision to spend the night with IDPs at relief camp was taken to understand their suffering and plight, he said. Athouba then encouraged members of the public to take a similar stand and spend at least one night at relief camps with the IDPs. He also called on and invited Deputy Commissioners and bureaucrats to spend a night at relief camps to understand how IDPs are living their lives. Spending a night at relief camps may encourage the bureaucrats to act responsibly and address the plight of the IDPs, he said.