Manipur migrants leave camp, workers trickle back
Imphal, June 19: With no further reports of attacks on non-Manipuris, migrants workers in the state have started leaving the two relief camps since yesterday to resume work.
An official source today said only 20 of them were left at the Kalibari relief camp and as many at the dharamshala one in Imphal city.
“The migrants reported to police stations at their work sites. This is for their safety,” the official said.
Prabhu Prasad, a cobbler from Bihar, was the last migrant to be attacked.
On Monday night, an unidentified person hit him on the forehead at Lamphel in Imphal West district. Prasad said the man had hit him on the face with a stone while he was returning from work to his rented house in Lamphel, on the outskirts of Imphal town, around 7pm.
The relief camps were opened after the attack on six migrants at the Central Agricultural University at Eroisemba in Imphal West on June 11 night.
Two gunmen had called out six labourers, all from West Bengal, from their hut on the university campus where they were engaged as construction workers. The gunmen lined them up on the football field on the campus and fired at them. Four labourers were killed while two escaped.
The attack triggered an exodus of Bengali migrant workers from Manipur.
Other workers, mostly from Bihar, stayed back and started returning to their respective place of work.
The migrants sheltered at the relief camps are mostly barbers, cobblers, construction labourers, daily wage earners, hawkers and washermen.
The Delhi-based Northeast Support Centre and Helpline, that look after the welfare of people coming from the Northeast, condemned the killing of migrants in Manipur.
“There can be adverse consequences (of the killings) for the northeastern communities living outside the region,” the spokesman for the support group, Madhu Chandra, said.
Source: The Telegraph
An official source today said only 20 of them were left at the Kalibari relief camp and as many at the dharamshala one in Imphal city.
“The migrants reported to police stations at their work sites. This is for their safety,” the official said.
Prabhu Prasad, a cobbler from Bihar, was the last migrant to be attacked.
On Monday night, an unidentified person hit him on the forehead at Lamphel in Imphal West district. Prasad said the man had hit him on the face with a stone while he was returning from work to his rented house in Lamphel, on the outskirts of Imphal town, around 7pm.
The relief camps were opened after the attack on six migrants at the Central Agricultural University at Eroisemba in Imphal West on June 11 night.
Two gunmen had called out six labourers, all from West Bengal, from their hut on the university campus where they were engaged as construction workers. The gunmen lined them up on the football field on the campus and fired at them. Four labourers were killed while two escaped.
The attack triggered an exodus of Bengali migrant workers from Manipur.
Other workers, mostly from Bihar, stayed back and started returning to their respective place of work.
The migrants sheltered at the relief camps are mostly barbers, cobblers, construction labourers, daily wage earners, hawkers and washermen.
The Delhi-based Northeast Support Centre and Helpline, that look after the welfare of people coming from the Northeast, condemned the killing of migrants in Manipur.
“There can be adverse consequences (of the killings) for the northeastern communities living outside the region,” the spokesman for the support group, Madhu Chandra, said.
Source: The Telegraph
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