Day: June 10, 2013

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PRESS STATEMENT

8th June, 2013

 

In the Presidential Council meeting held on the 3^rd June, 2013 the matter of relentless communal onslaught of the Government of Manipur(GoM) and communal forces of Imphal valley upon the Nagas and tribals was tabled for discussion. After thorough deliberation it was decided to observe a 48 hours total bandh in Naga areas w.e.f the midnight of 16^th June, 2013 and till midnight of 18^th June, 2013 to protest against the unabated communal actions and policies of the GoM and the communal forces in Imphal valley and to urge the Government of India to intervene immediately with an alternative arrangement.

 

The above decision was arrived at after considering the manner of response of the GoM and communal forces on many issues which emerged even after the direct attack on Christians and Tribals in Imphal valley in the wake of the reported assault on actress Momoko, the Napetpali assault and molestation and the murder of 2 Kongkan Tangkhul villagers – all during the Christmas season of December, 2013. The communal actions continues unabated in different forms, amongst which the following incidents were discussed in detail –

 

1. 36 houses of Silent Tangkhul village were burnt down by neighbouring Saijang Meitei and their supporters on 3^rd May, 2013 and properties worth crores of rupees was reduced to cinders and hundreds of villagers rendered homeless. The Cabinet of the GoM then steps in and imposes 144 CRPC in the area where the burnt houses once stood by declaring the same as disputed area, thereby endorsing the terror crime of burning of houses and clearly favouring Saijang Meitei. Instead of booking the vandals and arsonists, the GoM acts against the law of the land and adopts a communal position.

 

2. The GoM offers a communal response and refuses to carry out its bounden duty of securing the safe return of Ms. Alice Kamei, a  14 year old tribal school girl who has been in the custody of the Revolutionary Peoples Front/Peoples Liberation Army(RPF/PLA) since 10th March, 2013 stating that the minor Ms Alice has joined the RPF on her own volition. Communal GoM absolves a militant group of its crime of abduction/ensnaring a minor away from the care of her parents and guardians.

 

3. The eviction of 28 houses in Naga River Colony by the GoM on the 20th May, 2013 left more than 100 school going children homeless and 3 churches mowed down. The eviction of the bona fide residents of Naga River Colony was carried on the pretext of construction of a 5 star hotel and systematically carried out by first propagating that the “patta” of the area were faulty and then issuing back dated eviction orders which did not allow the resident to salvage whatever is possible from their houses. Even standing court ruling of maintaining status quo was not honoured. At daybreak of 20^th May, 2013, Naga River colony was wiped out of the face of the earth epitomising the determined design of the Communal GoM to disown tribals and Christian of their legitimate rights.

 

4. Surrenderees Cadres of the KYKL(MDF) have been lodged by the GoM with the 20^th Assam Rifles at Chandel. Instead of bringing development to the hills, the GoM using the tribal areas as dumping ground for surrendered militant groups from the Imphal valley insulting the owners of the land. Organised protest has not resulted in any corrective measures from the GoM.
5. The officer-in-Charge of Sugnu Police Station has summoned the Chiefs of 12 tribal villages located in the foothills of Chandel district to come with land patta of their respective villages. The summons are obviously with a view to replicate what has been done in Naga River Colony so that by harassing the villagers and detecting some non-existent irregularity the village can be evicted by the GoM.

 

6. Maipethel Dam, under a mega 715.81 crore project has been sanctioned for construction in Chadong village, Ukhrul District without the free prior and informed consent of the tribal people who are to be dislodged from their homes and lands by the project. The affected villagers on protest were able to extract an understanding with the GoM to institute an Expert Review Committee so that proper environment impact assessments is duly undertaken and appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement package worked out before resumption of the project. But GoM dishonoured this understanding, violated all international norms and split up the villagers by engineering infighting. GoM then sent in the Manipur IRB to the project area to secure forcible completion of the project and placed the village Chadong area virtually under siege, dislocating the day to day life of the villagers. Fictitious list of names for payment of compensation was prepared by the GoM, insulting the genuine affected villagers and fomenting acrimony within the villagers.

 

The project is intended to feed Imphal valley with drinking water and uninterrupted power supply. But what about the affected tribal villagers, the targeted victims of the project ? Why were established norms and procedures not followed. Bulldozing over the villagers with force, luring away some sections of the victims with irregular compensations and engineering conflict within the villagers typifies the GoM’s communal approach in its agenda for ensuring power & water supply to Imphal valley with the least respect for the tribal landowners and their due rights.

 

7. On 14^th April, 2013 fifteen tribal students staying on rent in the house of one Manitombi Devi in Soibam Leikai, Khanglabung, Imphal were attacked by locals of Khanglabung Leirak. They were assaulted and their personal belongings vandalised. On 15^th April, 2013 when community student leaders visited the house for enquiry they were also attacked with catapults. The locals of Khanglabung reportedly maintained on ISTV that the incident took place due to dispute between the Landlord and the local populace. No action has been taken by the GoM and tribals continue to be soft target of the communal forces in Imphal valley where all important facilities such as education and health are centred.

 

8. In a bid to grab tribal lands attempt are being made to drag in tribal villages such as Khangshim, Kanemram, Nungaourok & Koraopokpi under Machi Block Chandel into Kakching block under Thoubal valley district. Signboards of the tribal villages have been defaced and provocative and derogatory insults are being hurled on the tribals unceasingly.

 

9. The political tour in Naga areas carried out in April-May, 2013 to Chandel, Ukhrul, Tamenglong and Senapati district has confirmed our position that development planning of the GoM are itself communal and that the crores and crores of rupees sanctioned for development project in the hills have been done only to siphon off funds through contract works without any sincere intention to develop the tribal areas.

 

Nagas have consistently maintained that we are not communal. But the Nagas and tribals cannot have their identity recognised; have their identity, land and way of life protected; live with dignity and honour  under the Communal Government of Manipur and with the communal forces in Imphal valley.The sharp social divide on communal lines in the present State of Manipur engendered by the communal action and policies of the GoM and the communal forces in Imphal valley, of which few of the recent instances have been highlighted above, cries out for immediate intervention of the Government of India with an alternative arrangement outside the Government of Manipur.

 

The 48 hours total bandh will cover the railway construction works. Medical services, fire-brigade, media, power and telecommunication departments will be exempted from the purview of the total bandh.

 

We solicit the cooperation and goodwill of the general public towards making the protest programme peaceful and violence free. Anybody violating the total bandh would be doing so at their own risk.

 

 

Publicity Wing

United Naga Council

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Having turned a deaf ear to the cries of the long pending legitimate demands of the All Tribal Students ’Manipur (ATSUM) by the Government of Manipur, the Union is compelled to launch an intense agitation for 38 hours w.e.f. 5.am of June 3, 2013 to 7.pm of 4th June 2013 followed by a sustained agitation for 38 days under the code name (ROTO) Reckoning of the others in protest against the indifferent attitude of the GoM.

Keeping in mind the unstable social milieu on communal line and suppression of inherent Rights of the Tribal, the Union has been steadfastly spearheading tribal movement as a measure to bring peace, harmony, progress and inclusive development of all communities living in the state. We vehemently detest the culture of bandh, blockade of Highways and other violence means of agitation as it is an infliction to us all. As however, we are compelled to communicate in a dialect that could be heard by those at the helms of affairs. With no response from the Govt. With the above series of agitations The ATSUM add up the actions to stop the construction work of NF Railway construction indefinitely, that is taken up between Tupul- Jiribam. From the midnight of 7th June 2013 until and unless the Manipur State Govt. concede to the genuine demands of ATSUM.

The constructions work of NF-Raiways from Tupul- Jiribam is completely stop now.

CHARTER OF DEMANDS:
1. Education:
(a) Appointment of adequate teaching and non-teaching staff in the Hill areas.
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
(b) Development of Infrastructures to School in the Hill areas.
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
(c) Setting up of B.ED centres in the Hills.
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
(d) IGNTU-Issues
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
2. Health:
(a) To make all PHSC, PHC, CHC and DHC functional.
(b) Proper Equipments with required specialist Doctors and Nurses in all the
District Hospitals of the Hill.
(c) Reservation of ST Quota for different grades of posts in JNIMS.
(Memo submitted on 23rd April, 2013).
3. Separate State Commission for ST Under article 338- A of the Indian Constitution.
The National commission for Scheduled tribes which came into force on19th February, 2004 has failed to provide adequate services to the State of Manipur as it is based on a distant centre in Shillong. Hence, the ST of Manipur deserves to have a separate commission for ST in Manipur under Article 338-A of the Indian Constitution to usher in all round development.
4. Adherence to ST reservation norms as per the latest roster
(a). To strictly maintain the reservation Norms of ST.
(b). for encouraging equitable development through Grand in Aid/ Special Package
for the Hill Areas of Manipur.
(c). Rectification of the order no. 3/8/2008-Jr, (MCS) DP Dated 7th Dec’2012.
(d). Filling of backlog posts in every Department by a special recruitment drive for ST.

5. Effective Governance of the hills.
To implement proper functioning of the Hill Area Committee and requiring the Governor of Manipur to discharge his special responsibilities under Article 371-C of the constitution of India.

6. Unbiased promotion in Government services i.e. both centres and
State services. (IAS/MCS/IPS/MPS/Jr. MCS & in all other grades.
(Memo Submitted on 27th Nov. 2012.)
(Memo submitted to CM Manipur on 18/04/2013),
(And Ultimatum on 10th Jan 2013).

7. Tribal rights on Land and Natural Resources.
* Protection of the Rights of the Indigenous Tribal peoples over the Land, Forest and * Management of Natural resources in the Hill Areas of Manipur.

8. Protest against deletion of Additional English in lieu of MIL for un-recognised Tribes in the new scheme of study in class-IX from the Academic
session 2014-2015 and in class –X the next year under BOSEM.

9. Appointment of Tribal Women as Chairperson of Manipur Women Commission.

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We from NE Brothers Ent Pvt Ltd in collaboration with Idaa, Hyderabad are providing FREE COMPUTER TRAINING COURSES for unemployed youth in Imphal area, should have S.S.C. passed and above higher education are eligible, age limit is 14 years above, the course duration would be 30 days to 40 days, the next batch commencing from June 20th 2013.

Offered Courses:

1. Computer Fundamentals, MS-Office and Internet

2. 2D pre-production Animator

3. 3D- Animation Production

4. 3D- Visualization in Architecture

The successful candidates will be awarded with NCVT certificate, New Delhi. Interested candidates should contact the Below Address :

NE Bros, 3rd Floors, NE brothers building,

Opposite: Shyamashakhi High School Moirangkhom bazaar Imphal west,

MANIPUR, Phone no: 0385-2454076 / 91-9191709368

All the candidates should carry 4 photographs, with Xerox copy’s of education certificates, Address proof & Id Proof.

Thanking you,

Yours Faithfully

Jafri

(Institute In charge)

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