IMPHAL, December 6: Strongly condemning the alleged assault on president of KSO Chandel Block and two village chiefs by 24 Assam Rifles at Khudengthabi Check Post yesterday, the KSO General Headquarters has imposed a 48 hours general strike in the hill districts from December 6 midnight.
Speaking to the media, general secretary of KSO General Headquarters Seibol Haokip demanded the government to book the AR personnel involved in the brutal assault at the earliest and award punishment as per law.
He said that there had been such inhuman treatment meted out to travellers at Khudengthabi Check Post by AR personnel in the past as well.
It is the inherent nature of 24 AR to disrespect and persecute tribal people ever since they posted in the area, he alleged.
Lamenting that AR personnel have been acting at their own behest, he made it clear that KSO will not take the matter lightly and ensure that tribal rights are not violated.
Following the assault, KSO filed an FIR at the concerned police station. If the concerned authority does not take appropriate legal action against the accused AR personnel, the relationship between the tribal people and AR who called themselves as friend of hill people will remain strain, he said. He added that only cases related to medical and media will be exempted from the purview of the general strike.