HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Sept 29: Students of Prime Medical College at Rampur in
Bangladesh on Thursday night staged silent candlelight protests over
killings of two teenage Meitei students.
They demanded action against the killers of the two students Phijam
Hemanjit (20) and Hijam Linthoingambi alias Luwanganbi (17) amid the
ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur.
Supriya Bhattarai, a leader of the students stated that the authorities
should hand over the dead bodies of the two students to the next of kin
of their families at the earliest. The two students went missing after they
went out on a motorcycle on July 6 in the Churachandpur district of
Manipur. They have been assumed dead after their photographs surfaced
on social media on September 25.
Bhattarai also said that the students in their college can feel the pain of
the family members of the deceased. “We strongly condemned the act of
the Kuku militants for their killing of innocent students.”
The festoons and placards were stalled at the protest site. It read, “We
are demanding early justice for the two students.”
The student leader further stated that the culprits must be arrested soon
and punished according to the law of the Indian government.
Over 10,000 Meiteis live in four different districts in Bangladesh, namely
Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj, and Habiganj.
