Demand For Apology And Appeal To North-East People
Imphal, 12th August 2012
The Mongoloid Peoples Forum and the All India Tribal Students Association Delhi condemn the well plan successive attacked on the innocent citizens from Northeast in the state of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala in the highest term and demand an apology from the three organizers of the protest in the interest of safeguarding the secular fabric of the country.
None of the victims assaulted were at all related with neither the riot in Assam nor in Myanmar. The slogan "kisi chinki logon ko chor ne ka nain" uttered by the protesters is totally racial, offensive, a threats to national integration and uncalled for. A similar incidence of attacking innocent people from Northeast was also carried out in the state of Bihar in November 2003 in retaliation to the manhandling of some candidates from Bihar by some Assamese student during the Railway Recruitment exam in Guwahati.
The forum appeal to the Chief Minister of the eight northeastern states to take up political solution with the central government for the constitution of "Commission for Racial Equality" (CRE) in similar line with the British Government. And also urged all the political parties to ponder ways and means of sending the North-Eastern youth to neighboring the south East Asian countries as part of the Look East Policy (LEP)
The forum also appeal to the various ethnic groups to North-East region to stand united wherever they are, as we are stereotype and categorize as discrete citizen irrespective of our religion, tribes, caste, community and states. We need to stand united in these seemingly difficult times and fight together against any communal element spill by religious fanatics from outside the northeast.
However, the forum appeals to all the Northeast people not to succumb to narrow religious fundamentalism and abstain from indulging in any act of violence against any community. The Association did not even release a word during the riot in Assam.
In the Service of the People
K.Zou (Social Worker)
Convenor,
Mongolod peoples forum
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