{"id":94333,"date":"2020-02-23T01:35:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=94333"},"modified":"2020-02-23T01:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:05:27","slug":"families-of-those-who-died-in-anti-prc-movement-observe-martyrs-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/23\/families-of-those-who-died-in-anti-prc-movement-observe-martyrs-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of those who died in anti-PRC movement observe &#8216;Martyr&#8217;s Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Feb 22:<\/strong> The families of Risso Tari, Tsering Wangdi and Biki Ruja observed &#8216;Martyr&#8217;s Day&#8217; at the IG Park tennis court here on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the anti-PRC movement.<br \/>\nHighlighting the hardships faced by many during the anti-PRC agitation in February last year, organizing chairman Risso Kiagung<br \/>\nannounced that &#8220;statues of the three will be erected on the &#8216;martyr ground&#8217; to honour and remember the sacrifices made by the three martyrs for the indigenous people of the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe appealed to the state government to provide financial support for erecting the statues of the three, and to officially notify the ground as &#8216;Martyrs Ground&#8217;.<br \/>\nKiagung also asked the government to bring those involved in the killings to book.<br \/>\nLate Ruja&#8217;s father, Biki Nera, requested the state government to provide a government post higher than the one currently assigned to the next of kin of the three deceased, and to erect their statues.<br \/>\nStating that &#8220;the three men were no less than soldiers,&#8221; businessman Haa Tatu asked the organizing committee to organize a &#8220;martyrs&#8217; cup tournament, similar to the Hangpan Dada Memorial Trophy,&#8221; in memory of the three men.<br \/>\nAlso addressing the gathering, Capital SP Tumme Amo appealed to the citizens to maintain peace in the state in order to avoid such unfortunate incidents in the future.<br \/>\nLater, the gathering also paid homage to senior journalist late Taro Chatung.<br \/>\nThe programme was also attended by victims who were reportedly injured during the anti-PRC movement, besides members of various student unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Feb 22: The families of Risso Tari, Tsering Wangdi and Biki Ruja observed &#8216;Martyr&#8217;s Day&#8217; at the IG Park tennis court here on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the anti-PRC movement. Highlighting the hardships faced by many during the anti-PRC agitation in February last year, organizing chairman Risso Kiagung announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-94333","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\/94333","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=94333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}