Manipur : Normal life affected due to shutdown; women protesters stopped from marching to CM's house
security forces. Normal life was affected in several areas in Manipur following the shutdown called by the different organisations. The Manipur government has urged the people not to make any hate speech and express any matter targeting any individual and community which might create ethnic or law and order problems.
Hundreds of women marched in Imphal and wanted to meet chief minister N Biren Singh to submit a memorandum. They said that they wanted to meet the chief minister and plead with him to resolve the conflict at the earliest. As they began a peaceful rally from Singjamei Market, a combined team of Rapid Action Forces and state forces stopped them at the traffic point of Singjamei Chinga Makhong, Imphal.
The United Naga Council (UNC) has announced a 12-hour “total shutdown in all the Naga areas in the state of Manipur” from 6 am to 6 pm on Monday, July 17, in connection with the killing of a Naga woman in Imphal. “In the event of not fulfilling our demands within 48 hours, further course of action will be initiated,” the UNC stated. Police have arrested nine people in connection with the killing of Lucy Marem.
The UNC then said it condemned “such barbaric acts committed on innocent Nagas despite knowing her identity as Naga”. Since the beginning of this unfortunate conflict between the Meiteis and the Kukis the Nagas have maintained that peace must prevail and have lent “our might toward this end”, it also said. “Vested interest parties who wish to drag us into this conflict will not be spared and our patience and accommodating acts of the recent past should not be taken as a sign of weakness by all concerned who have provoked us, destroying our properties, torturing and humiliating us during the present conflict
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