Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 17:
Women folk of Yourabung areas staged demonstration at Yourabung today to condemn frequent disturbances and anxiety caused to the local population by unidentified persons resorting to random firing and to appeal to all concerned to ensure peace and tranquillity in the area.
The protest session held at Yourabung Meira Paibi shanglen (shed) was jointly organised by Yourabung Development Committee, Yourabung Youth Club and Ima Thambal Lairembi Meira Paibi Lup (Yourabung) in the backdrop of indiscriminate firing by miscreants on june 8 and 12 nights.
The demonstrators also held placards denouncing the shooting incidents and prevailing upon those involved in the unwanted acts to desist from such conduct.
Speaking to reporters on the sideline of the protest, an elderly woman recounted unidentified persons resorting to several rounds of firing in the air from around 8.30 pm of June 8.The firing reportedly began from near Yourabung Panthoibi Lampak (ground) before the same act was committed in almost the entire interiors of Yourabung village.
Conveying that similar acts were re-enacted on four days later, the women expressing serious concern over such misconduct of the unidentified persons urged all concerned to ensure such acts do not recur in the future.