25.03.2007
Kuki Students from Burma Brutalized by Indian Police
_ Reported by Kuki Student Organization
Thirty students, mostly girls, were injured when a peaceful protest by Kuki
Student Organisation (KSO) of , India, were dispersed by Indian Police using
batons, water cannons and teargas shells near Manipur Parliament this week.
Some girl students who witness the brutality of the police were so horrified that they were unable to move at all.
Even after the students were dispersed from the parliament street, the police still continue to chase them in and around the Connaught Place randomly lathi charged, kicked with boots not sparing girl students, and arrested more than 200 students who are still under detention at the parliament street police station. The window glasses of the buses which the students used for transportation were also broken and damaged by the police. Those students who managed to escape the police chase got back home by hiring auto rickshaws at their own cost.
The police have also arrested around 120 students, including girls. ACP (Parliament Street) Meher Singh and SHO (Connaught Place) Suresh Kaushik were injured in the incident and were later rushed to RML hospital. Thirty KSO activists were also admitted to the hospital.
The Kuki student activists from Manipur were seeking the safe release of around 400 villagers, who were allegedly kidnapped and tortured by the Myanmarese military junta.
A Kuki girl being brutally detained by Indian Police
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Comments:
P Z said _
How can the Indian government hope to win peace in the Northeast region if they
continue to treat the non-Indian Ethnic People like animals? Kukis are people
and their grievances deserve to be heard, but instead of giving heed, the
Indians are hounding them like animals.
Is this how the descendants of Gandhi treat demonstrators in the Land of
Gandhi? Indians love to hate the British colonialists, but look at how they are
behaving. ..... WORSE than the British..... these Indian police are acting
like Burmese policemen and soldiers.
SHAME on the Indian government.
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