Day: January 17, 2014

IMPHAL, January 17: The joint action committee against the brutal killing of Mema Bibi has demanded the immediate replacement of the investigating officer of the case and the office-in-charge of the police station concerned.

Speaking at a press meet held today, convener of the JAC Rahaman said the committee strongly condemned the brutal attack by a police team under the command of T Inaobi, the OC of Irilbung PS, on women protestors present at the court complex of the CJM, Imphal east on January 16. The women were there to demand the truth on the involvement of Nur Khan alias Khan in the killing.

The OC had reportedly ordered lathi-charge and other forms of physical assault on the women injuring three of them, who were identified as Thambal, 41, Reshma alias Bembem, 20, and Samerun, 21. They were admitted to a nearby hospital and discharged after receiving first aids. In this connection the JAC raised serious concern and draw the attention of the authorities to investigate the conduct of the OC of Irilbung PS.

He accused the police of acting favorably for the culprit’s family and asserted that they have not managed to produce any evidence against Nur Khan even though the latter had made a confession of murdering Mema Bibi. The police have claimed that important pieces of evidences like the clothing of the accused and murder weapon could have been destroyed or lost when his house was dismantled by a mob on January 2, 2014, he stated.

Daughter of the deceased, Rukaya expressed her strong conviction that more persons could have been involved in the murder. She claimed that after she saw three persons in front of her mother’s grocery shop and then her mother lying in a pool of blood just ten minutes later. JAC members further demanded that the other conspirators in the murder should be arrested within five days. If the concerned authorities do not take up any positive actions for fulfillment of the demands then they will launch serious forms of agitations.

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IMPHAL, January 17: After the pioneering work laid down by Lamyanba Hijam Irabot, Communists groups that took to arms and others that did not, have become puppets as there was no subsequent movement for the welfare of the peasantry, stated the Maoist Communist Party.

In a press statement, the MCP stated that a glaring example of the assertion is that none of the Communist groups in Manipur or other concerned organizations have aired their protest over the abduction of three poor laborers and their supervisor from Singda Dam by unidentified persons. Those organizations that had come up to follow the footsteps of Lamyanba Irabot should always keep in their minds his cherished dream to build a sovereign nation based on egalitarian beliefs.

Mere pretense in order to appear sincere, hectic activities and observations in the month September, and random distribution of seeds with the assistance of ‘parasitic’ officers of the state agriculture department cannot be regarded as following the path of the leader, the press statement said.

Many drivers had been taken as hostage for ransom by armed persons, others were killed in incident like the RIMS massacre and fishermen were used as human shields in Ningthoukhong, it added. Different communist parties have conspicuously responded with silence during those incidents and their behaviors cannot be termed as supporting the ideologies of Lamyanba Irabot, it contended.

On the other hand, the armed groups of communists have donned the role of armed revisionist parties and became extortionist and visionless drifters who are despised by the public. Communist leaders who have treaded the path of electoral politics are selling the name of Lamyanba Irabot for their benefits, it charged.

Manipur is a fertile ground for communism and there are countless adherents to the communist philosophy from Sekmai to Sugnu and from Lamlai to Kumbi, it added asserting that the socialist movement has suffered due to the misguidance of groups formed in the name of Lamyanba Irabot. The party asked the comrades whether they had ever come across help given by such groups to farmers during the time of natural calamities and crop failure. It surmised that the existing communists have abandoned the teachings of Lamyanba Irabot and forsaken the ideologies of Marxism.

National liberation can be a reality only when a communist party based on Marxism comes into existence and MCP will set forth to establish a political alliance of communist parties based on particular issues under the model of People’s Progressive Front, the party announced. It invited followers of Lamyanba Irabot and believers in communism to be a part of the venture.

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