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ITANAGAR, 4 Feb:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) observed its ‘martyrs’ day’ at the NEFA Club here on Friday.<\/p>\n The day is observed every year on 4 February to remember the supreme sacrifice made by former AAPSU leaders late Kipa Kache, late Tobom Bam and late Khoda Dolu for the cause of the people of the state.<\/p>\n Kache, who succumbed to firing by CRPF personnel during the anti-refugee movement in 1986, was declared the first AAPSU martyr.<\/p>\n Bam lost his life on 18 May, 1994 during the ‘Delhi Chalo March’ organized by the union against foreigners settled in the state, while Dolu lost his life in 2004.<\/p>\n The union also deeply mourned the sudden demise of its former general secretary Liki Ete on 3 February.<\/p>\n AAPSU general secretary Tobom Dai recalled Ete’s contributions towards the growth of student activism across the state.<\/p>\n “Ete was a straightforward person and a dynamic leader under whose initiative mass movement against refugees was organized across Arunachal after his election as the union’s general secretary in the early ’90s,” Dai said.<\/p>\n Ete was the son of late Minli Ete and late Rei Karbi Ete.<\/p>\n State Information Commissioner Gumjum Haider – a former AAPSU leader himself – also attended the programme and shared his “inputs and experiences” with the participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 4 Feb: The All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) observed its ‘martyrs’ day’ at the NEFA Club here on Friday. The day is observed every year on 4 February to remember the supreme sacrifice made by former AAPSU leaders late Kipa Kache, late Tobom Bam and late Khoda Dolu for the cause of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}