{"id":222116,"date":"2023-08-11T00:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=222116"},"modified":"2023-08-11T00:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:58:43","slug":"manipur-tribal-students-stage-rally-to-observe-100-days-of-ethnic-strife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/manipur-tribal-students-stage-rally-to-observe-100-days-of-ethnic-strife\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur tribal students stage rally to observe 100 days of ethnic strife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHURACHANDPUR, 10 Aug:<\/strong> The Joint Students&#8217; Body, comprising the Zomi Students&#8217; Federation (ZSF), the Kuki Students&#8217; Organisation and the Hmar Students&#8217; Association, on Thursday organised a rally in Manipur&#8217;s Churachandpur town to observe 100 days of ethnic strife in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eyewitnesses said that the students expressed appreciation for the resistance put up by the village defence guards to prevent violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The day was observed to pay tributes to the tribals who fought the attackers. The Kuki-Zo tribals will not rest till their demands are met and a separate administration formed,&#8221; a member of the ZSF said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the demand for separate administration dates back to the 1960s, and that the tribals &#8220;are not illegal immigrants as claimed by some politicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The students&#8217; body said that a one-minute silence was also observed as a mark of respect to the tribals who were killed in the ethnic strife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 27 July, the body had submitted a memorandum to Governor Anusuiya Uikey, seeking necessary measures for Kuki-Zomi University students affected by the ongoing violence in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alleging discrimination towards tribal students, the students&#8217; body had appealed to the governor to intervene into the matter. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHURACHANDPUR, 10 Aug: The Joint Students&#8217; Body, comprising the Zomi Students&#8217; Federation (ZSF), the Kuki Students&#8217; Organisation and the Hmar Students&#8217; Association, on Thursday organised a rally in Manipur&#8217;s Churachandpur town to observe 100 days of ethnic strife in the state. Eyewitnesses said that the students expressed appreciation for the resistance put up by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222116","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=222116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}