{"id":224261,"date":"2023-09-15T00:17:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=224261"},"modified":"2023-09-15T00:17:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:47:57","slug":"cocomi-rejects-afspa-demand-by-manipur-tribal-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/cocomi-rejects-afspa-demand-by-manipur-tribal-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"COCOMI rejects AFSPA demand by Manipur tribal bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IMPHAL, 14 Sep:<\/strong> The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella body of multiple civil bodies based in Imphal valley, has termed the demand for re-imposition of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in the valley areas as &#8220;totally absurd&#8221; and &#8220;not logical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued by its media coordinator Somendro Thokchom, the COCOMI said, &#8220;Ransoms, extortions and killings are happening in Kuki dominated areas. There is reasonable peace in all areas where AFSPA was lifted long time back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The COCOMI said that rampant extortion, looting on the highways and kidnappings have increased after the outbreak of the present crisis in the Kuki-majority hill areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This development comes after Churachandpur-based Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF) and Kangpokpi-based Committee on Tribal Unity (COTU) demanded imposition of the AFSPA in Imphal valley in the wake of killing of three persons by unidentified gunmen near Kharam Vaiphei on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In April 2022, the central government had removed the disturbed areas tag under the AFSPA from 15 police station areas of Imphal valley. In March this year, Chief Minister N Biren Singh announced withdrawal of the AFSPA from another four PS areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Manipur government had last extended the Disturbed Areas Act on 1 April, 2023, for a period of six months in the entire state, except for areas under the jurisdiction of the 19 police stations. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, 14 Sep: The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella body of multiple civil bodies based in Imphal valley, has termed the demand for re-imposition of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in the valley areas as &#8220;totally absurd&#8221; and &#8220;not logical.&#8221; In a statement issued by its media coordinator Somendro Thokchom, [&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-224261","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\/224261","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=224261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}