Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 17 2010:
Pureiromba Market in Imphal city today observed a shut down to register a strong protest against Central government remaining silent on the whereabouts of UNLF chairman, RK Meghen alias Sanayaima.
A sit-in protest was also staged by womenfolk at different places at Bamon Leikai and Singjamei Bheigyapati Leikai in Imphal on the same issue urging the Central government to disclose the status of the rebel leader whose whereabouts are yet to be ascertained after a combined team of RAW and its Bangladesh counterpart allegedly arrested him in Dhaka on September 29 last.
While observing a total shut down to protest the indifferent attitude of the Central government, shopkeepers and vendors of the Pureiromba market at Palace Compound also staged a sit-in protest from 10 am till 4 pm.
Taking part in the sit-in protest a vendor demanded that both the governments central as well as state, should give a concrete statement on the whereabouts of UNLF leader, Sanayaima.
"We know that he is a leader of an outlawed organisation.
But it will not be a fair act of the Central as well as the state government to remain silent on his whereabouts even though media reports had alleged that he has been deported to India from Bangladesh," they said.
The only thing they wanted was information about Meghen's whereabouts.
They have nothing do with the arrest of the rebel leader but eliminating him or suppressing his rights as a human being will not be a right step on the part of the rulers of the largest democratic country in the world, they observed.
"He should be tried under the law of the country," they demanded.
Echoing the same feeling, womenfolk of Bamon Leikai and Singjamei Bheigyapati Leikai in Imphal also staged sit-in protests separately in their respective localities decrying the concealment of the rebel leader without providing any information to his family.
If Centre considers RK Meghen a culprit in the eyes of the law, then a trial should be initiated against him according to the laws of the country.
Why should he be kept concealed, they asked.
They also cautioned the government of remaining silent on the issue.