IMPHAL, Oct 22 NNN: To aflame one’s abode to save another house is not the correct way to deliver justice, even if I have lost my one limb I am all prepared to lose the other one too if the government of India chooses to act against the wishes of the people, Sorokhaibam Sobita, who was left with no other choice but to sever her one leg after a bullet hit her during the June 18, 2001 uprising, said boldly.
On June 18, 2001 the people rose up against the extension of NSCN-IM cease fire to Manipur.
Sorokkhaibam Sobita said, “It is a clear signal of ill-treatment to the people by the government of India which has not yet revealed the concrete points of agreement it has sketched with the NSCN-IM to end the Naga political issue”.
The Government of India in the name of peace process is attempting to split up the hill-valley ties and Thuingaleng Muivah and Isak Chishi Swu, the NSCN bosses are not aware of it until now, she tweeted. It is too late for the Naga outfit NSCN-IM to open its eyes as it has not been able to perceive the treachery of the Government, she continued.
Sobita is now passing her days sadly taking shelter inside a small room in the security quarter of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS). She has been put here for treatment ever since the scourge of the June 18 unrest. She is a mother of one son and three daughters.
She asked how many lives and limbs are wanted by the Government of India to ensure peace to NSCN-IM this time and said that, to aflame one’s abode to save another house is not the correct way to deliver justice. “Such political strategy is nothing less than an attempt by the government of India so as to create hostilities among the various ethnic groups”, she alleged.
If the Government chooses to act against the wishes of the people again, I am ready to join the latent movement of the people in the lead and sacrifice the other leg too, she vowed.
Although she has suffered a lot, Sobita who said her life is now ready to sacrifice for the people while her health seemed to be deteriorating. Her body weight was 70 kg during the time when she sustained bullet injuries on her leg but now she weighs no more than 53 kg. The decrease in her body weight also made her to change her artificial limb three times.
The 45-year-old woman was wounded when security forces fired at a group of protesters during the June 18 movement. One bullet hit her right calf which was later surgically removed.
Meanwhile, United Committee Manipur (UCM), which took a key role in spearheading the June uprising which perished 18 lives, informed apart from Sobita, one Thangjam Badan from Khurai Tharoijam Leirak, Imphal East is also one of the victims among others who have been undergoing treatment in the aftermath of the bloody episode.
Badan sustained bullet splinters in both the chest and right kidney. Recently, he got one kidney transplanted after medically taking out from his brother following both of his kidneys consequently failed, UCM secretary general Joychandra Konthoujam said.
Referring to the peace plan of the Government of India whose points of agreement has been kept away from the public domain to end the Naga political issue, he registered a strong warning that if the Government goes beyond the wishes of the people in dealing with the NSCN-IM, the UCM is all prepared to launch a huge mass agitation after collaborating with the people.
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