Imphal, Dec 17, 2016:
A Manipur based student body Saturday pressed the Centre to declare United Naga Council (UNC) as a terrorist group.
In a memorandum sent to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, Socialist Students’ Union of Manipur (SSUM) alleged the UNC for inciting communal enmity among the various community of the state and cutting the life lines of the people by imposing prolong economic blockade on the national highways. A statement of the student body stated Manipur has been put in a state of social turmoil by triggering artificial famine of essential items of daily consumption for more than a month, corresponding situation of price rise, and communal propaganda and tensions.
“This turmoil is the direct result of economic blockade imposed on national highways passing through Manipur by UNC,” it added.
The statement alleged that the economic blockade imposed by the UNC had directly targeted the general public and “this blockade is akin to a situation of war time siege and inhuman embargo.”
It has caused immense hardship and untold miseries across communities in both the valley and the hills, it added. SSUM, in the memorandum, said that such inhuman embargo was not the first of its kind in Manipur while recalling the calamity of 2011, caused by a hundred days economic blockade.
While stating that UNC had been indulging in spreading communal venoms amongst the different communities of Manipur, the students’ body alleged that the “UNC had instrumented in carrying out ethnic genocide of the Thadou community in 1990s.”
However, the governments had turned blind eyes to all these crimes and the criminals were never punished, stated SSUM.
Many more bloodshed, victimization, communal hatred and clashes would add to the ongoing social turmoil designed by the UNC, it added.
Source➵ Nagaland Post
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