MEDIA RELEASE
Imphal, the 12th March, 2018

TSA condemns barbaric act of Assam Police on Mizo youths, sympathise with victims

The Thadou Students’ Association, General Headquarters (TSA-GHQ) and TSA Mizoram Branch vehemently condemn the barbaric act of Assam Police who mindlessly carried out a reign of terror upon innocent Mizo youths at Zophai, Bairabi in Kolasib District, Mizoram and Mizoram media persons who were there to cover the incident.

We also condemn the high handedness of Assam's Hailakandi district administration for utilising highly disproportionate strength of police force to commit such horrible and despicable acts on a small group of student volunteers of Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) who were only trying to build a resting shed in a land within the boundary of Mizoram.

The use of such a large number of armed police personnel and indiscriminate firing and brute force to stop a small group of unarmed innocent students from building the resting shed is totally uncalled for all those responsible police personnel and officers and district administrators should be punished appropriately by authorities concerned. Such ugly and uncivilized incidents have no place in a democratic country and all those responsible should be punished according to the law of the land.

The Thadou students and the whole Thadou community in Manipur, Mizoram and elsewhere stand by our Mizo blood brothers and sisters who have fallen victims of the unimaginable atrocities at the hands of the senseless Assam Police force and we join our hands with them for timely delivery of justice.

Sd/-
(MICHAEL LAMJATHANG HAOKIP)
Secretary General
Thadou Students’ Association
General Headquarters