Migrant attacked again in Manipur
Imphal, June 16: Another non-Manipuri was attacked in Imphal West district last night, as migrant labourers continued to flee the state fearing more violence.
Police said an unidentified person hit Prabhu Prasad, a cobbler from Bihar, on his forehead in Lamphel. He was treated at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences.
Prasad said the man 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. “He attacked me suddenly and ran away without saying anything.”
After the incident, the police brought four migrants staying in Lamphel, including the injured, to the Kalibari relief camp opened by the government for migrants here around 11pm. The other camp is at the local dharamshala.
The 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 migrants from Manipur. So far 63 of them have left the dharamshala for their homes. Thirty-two of them left this morning, those still lodged there said.
The 48 Bengali migrants who are still staying there have requested the state government for money to return home. “We want to go home but we do not have any money. We want the government to give us the money,” Kali Bagani, a migrant, said. A source said the district administration would place the proposal of funding the migrants’ trip back home before the state home department.
Five migrants from Silchar left the Kalibari relief camp this morning for their homes. Only 36 migrants now remain there.
Those at the camps complained of government apathy. The Imphal West district administration sent a medical team to the two relief camps today to examine the migrants lodged there. The team provided free medicines to them.
So far, 22 migrants have been killed in the state this year.
Source: The Telegraph
Police said an unidentified person hit Prabhu Prasad, a cobbler from Bihar, on his forehead in Lamphel. He was treated at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences.
Prasad said the man 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. “He attacked me suddenly and ran away without saying anything.”
After the incident, the police brought four migrants staying in Lamphel, including the injured, to the Kalibari relief camp opened by the government for migrants here around 11pm. The other camp is at the local dharamshala.
The 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 migrants from Manipur. So far 63 of them have left the dharamshala for their homes. Thirty-two of them left this morning, those still lodged there said.
The 48 Bengali migrants who are still staying there have requested the state government for money to return home. “We want to go home but we do not have any money. We want the government to give us the money,” Kali Bagani, a migrant, said. A source said the district administration would place the proposal of funding the migrants’ trip back home before the state home department.
Five migrants from Silchar left the Kalibari relief camp this morning for their homes. Only 36 migrants now remain there.
Those at the camps complained of government apathy. The Imphal West district administration sent a medical team to the two relief camps today to examine the migrants lodged there. The team provided free medicines to them.
So far, 22 migrants have been killed in the state this year.
Source: The Telegraph
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