Public rally on Apr 19 over Alice Kamei

IMPHAL, April 16: A massive public rally is being planned on April 19 in Imphal demanding the safe release of school girl Alice Kamei from the custody of the militant outfit Revolutionary Peoples Front/Peoples Liberation Army (RPF/PLA).

The plan to hold the rally was resolved in the April 12 public meeting held at Majorkhul Community Hall, Imphal.

The public rally will start from Namdunlong (Pandon) Ground and pass through Khongnang karak-AOC-Minuthong-Mountaineering rock climbing point and return back to Namdunlong (Pandon) Ground followed by a public meeting.

"The democratic, peaceful and silent public rally will be held on April 19 in Imphal. Official procedures seeking for elaborate arrangement and deployment of security forces for staging the said rally has been intimated to the concerned Deputy Commissioner. The public will gather at Namdunlong (Pandon) Ground, near Khuman Lampak Sports Stadium from 11:30 am.

We appeal to all concern citizens to participate in the peaceful public rally to secure the release of minor school girl Alice Kamei who has been held captive by RPF/PLA since March 10, to uphold the human rights, national and international laws and in solidarity to family members of the captive minor girl," said All Zeliangrong Students Union (AZSU), Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF) and Zeliangrong Students Union, Manipur (ZSUM).

The three Zeliangrong organizations will then resort to a total national highway bandh from April 21 and the bandh will be relaxed only when Alice Kamei is released by the RPF/PLA.

Meanwhile, the AZSU (AMN), ZYF (AMN) and ZSUM have expressed serious concern regarding the bomb explosion injuring one Md. Naseeruddin, a minor boy aged about eight years old caused by the RPF/PLA bomb attack. "Such bomb attacks carried out in public areas causing civilian casualty especially to a minor boy is not an act to have been carried out by a revolutionary group therefore, it is appealed to any responsible group not to repeat such act in public areas in future," the Zeliangrong organizations said.