IMPHAL, AUGUST 6: The vehicular movement along the Indo-Myanmar road which was popularly known as Imphal-Moreh route here in the border state of Manipur has been severely affected today after a Joint Action Committee(JAC) enforced indefinite bandh in protest against the recovery of a dead body of a young girl.
The JAC against the Murder of M Lamneikim Haokip has imposed an indefinite bandh in Chnadel district sector of the route right from Pallel area, an important station about 50 km south of Imphal, with effect from the midnight of August 5 in protest against the the state government’s failure to nab the accused persons in the incident.
The JAC is compelled to impose the indefinite bandh as the State Government is unable to nab the culprits involved in the murder case even after the lapse of 24 hours, according to JAC Convenor Khaineo Lupho.
He said that the JAC and family members would not claim the body if the culprits are not booked.However the JAC announced to exempt emergency services including media from the purview of the bandh.
It may be mentioned that Lamneikim Haokip(21) was found dead in a suspicious manner inside her house at H Wajang village August 4.
Battlefields of Imphal released: A book based on infamous World War II called ‘The Battlefields of Imphal’ has been released at a simple but meaning function at Books and Coffee, Singjamei Thokchom Leikai on Friday evening.
The written by Hemant Singh Katoch, a Delhi based independent scholar who was once in Manipur to do specific research on the Battles of Imphal and Kohima of 1944.
A conversation session with the writer and personalities from diverse professions was also held at the cosy Book and Coffee shop located on the road side famous NH 39.
In 1944, the British Fourteenth Army and the Japanese Fifteenth Army clashed around the town of Imphal in what has since been described as one of the greatest battles of Second World War.
Over 200,000 soldiers from several Nations fought in the hills and valley of Manipur on the India-Burma (Myanmar) frontier.
This book is the first systematic mapping of the main scenes of the fighting in the critical Battle of Imphal. It connects the present with the past and links what exists today in Manipur with what happened there in 1944.
