As protests and arson continued in Manipur’s valley areas, the Kuki-Zo hills additionally remained tense with the our bodies of 10 Hmar males, suspected to be militants, being airlifted to Churachandpur on Saturday.
The ten Hmar males — seven of whom are from Churachandpur district and three from Pherzawl district — have been gunned down in Jiribam’s Borobekra and Jakuradhor areas on Monday. The gun battle began after the militants fired at a CRPF camp and Borobekra police station close by, the police mentioned.
Their our bodies had been saved within the mortuary of Silchar Medical Faculty and Hospital for 5 days. A number of Hmar teams protested outdoors the hospital alleging delay within the launch of the our bodies.
On Saturday afternoon, stress escalated on the hospital when the authorities ready at hand over the our bodies to the police. Members of the Hmar group gathered there and demanded that the our bodies be handed over to them. A bodily confrontation ensued and the police needed to resort to lathicharge to disperse the group; the state of affairs calmed down after a while.
Some Kuki-Zo teams had introduced a plan to move the our bodies to Churachandpur for remaining rites, bringing them by means of Mizoram in a procession. They have been proof against the thought of the our bodies being airlifted.
Nonetheless, after the our bodies arrived in Churachandpur, the ITLF, a Kuki-Zo group based mostly there, didn’t bury the our bodies, stating that the autopsy stories weren’t offered by the police.
“The our bodies of our martyrs can’t be claimed in the meanwhile as a result of no autopsy paperwork was introduced with them. Our martyrs’ our bodies will likely be positioned within the district hospital morgue till autopsy stories can be found. An professional on this area will rigorously evaluation the autopsy paperwork for any inconsistencies…,” learn an announcement by them.
An official at SMCH mentioned the autopsy stories got by the hospital to the police. “With the our bodies being handed over to the police, we additionally handed the autopsy stories to them and it’s for the police to offer these to the households of the deceased,” mentioned the official.
