GORKHA GIRL RAPED IN MANIPUR, ONE PROTESTOR SHOT DEAD BY MANIPUR POLICE GORKHAS ASKED TO LEAVE MEGHALAYA BY OUTLAWED MILITANTS, BHARATIYA GORKHA PARISANGH SEEKS CENTRE’S INTERVENTION
KNE REPORTS
KALIMPONG, APRIL 19, 2014:
The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, the representative
body of Indian Gorkhas, expressed deep shock and horror at the brutal rape of a
13-year-old Gorkha girl in Paomei Colony in Sangakpham, Manipur, on Thursday, April
17, 2014. The minor girl was raped by a 65-year-old man belonging to the Naga
community in a forested area of the locality.
The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, the representative
body of Indian Gorkhas, expressed deep shock and horror at the brutal rape of a
13-year-old Gorkha girl in Paomei Colony in Sangakpham, Manipur, on Thursday, April
17, 2014. The minor girl was raped by a 65-year-old man belonging to the Naga
community in a forested area of the locality.
The Gorkha community of Kanglatombi
took out a protest march and blocked the national highway on Friday, April 18,
2014, demanding the immediate arrest of the accused. The Manipur Police first
used tear gas to disperse the protestors and then resorted to indiscriminate firing,
in which a Gorkha youth, Tilak Poudyal, son of Prem Singh Poudyal, was killed.
The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh
condemns the police brutality and demands immediate action against the erring
police personnel. This sad incident is not an isolated one, only the symptom of
a bigger scheme of intimidation, in which the peaceful Gorkha community has
been at the receiving end of police high-handedness in the whole state of
Manipur.
This
follows on the heels of the banned Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council
(HNLC) asking the Gorkhas to immediately leave the entire districts of Khasi
and Jaintia Hills, and especially Langpih, in Meghalaya. A release had issued
to the media in Meghalaya by HNLC publicity secretary Sainkupar Nongtraw on
Wednesday, described the Gorkhas erroneously as “illegal foreign settlers” who
had “caused huge damage to our people in Langpih”.
The
Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh has apprised Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde
of these events and has demanded that the Centre intervene to ensure the
security of the minority Gorkha community in the Northeast. The Parisangh
reiterates that the Gorkhas are bonafide people of India and have always
strived to live peacefully and in harmony with all communities of the country.
But time and again, they are subjected to physical violence and psychological
torture that denies them their rights as citizens of India and leaves them
insecure and unprotected. The Central Government must immediately take steps to
remedy this situation in all ways it deems correct.
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