By Alex Guite
LAMKA, February 23: A recreational park named after General Tunkhopum, a Zomi revolutionary general, was inaugurated at Panglian village which is 15 km off the Lamka town today. This is the first of its kind recreational park in the district.
The Zogam Salpha Tunkhopum historical park was inaugurated today by the president of Zomi Reunification Organisation, Thanglianpau at the place where the mortal remains of the Zomi leader, exhumed by his followers from a grave in Mizoram last year, were buried.
The park is the brainchild of the lone-female member of the Churachandpur ADC, Grace Zamnu.
Grace Zamnu said her vision for the future is to turn the park into a place for recreational activities, adding `a great statue of the late Pu Tunkhopum, president of the Chin Liberation Army will be installed here, thus making it a place of paying obeisance to Zomi Leaders by also constructing a huge building where the photos and brief descriptions of the brave warriors and leaders of the Zosuan will be kept.`
Grace, the ADC member from the Muallum constituency where the park is located, further stated that the hillock is where the mortal remains of Pu Tunkhopum were buried.
It may be recalled here that the famed children park located at Tuibuang district headquarters colony has turned into a vegetable garden, from a year now, with the vegetation concealing almost everything in the park.