ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, Dec 9: Expressing solidarity against the killing of 14 innocent civilians by armed forces at Oting  in Mon district of Nagaland, All Arunachal Pradesh Student Union (AAPSU) and  North East Student Organization (NESO) jointly organized  a sit-in demonstration and mass lighting event here at IG park today.
Besides, AAPSU and NESO members, hundreds of students from different colleges and universities including students from Naga community persuing their studies in Arunachal also participated in the event. Holding placards and candles participants also observed condolences prayers for the victims.
Speaking on the occasion, General Secretary AAPSU, Tobom Dai demanded repeal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 (AFSPA) from the Northeast.  Terming the Act as draconian, Dai said in the pretext of AFSPA many innocent people have been killed but Armed Forces personnel who are involved in such incidents are immune from all charges. 
"In a democracy, every problem can be solved with discussion across the table but trying to bring normalcy with the barrel of guns is not possible," said Dai.  Today on this platform, we request our state government and Chief Minister to speak up to repeal the controversial AFSPA like the CM of Meghalaya and Nagaland, he said.
"We are not against Armed Forces, we are most patriotic in nature but we want authority to throw out the blacksheeps misusing AFSPA inside the forces," the AAPSU GS said.
Condemning the incident, NESO Coordinator- Pritam Waii Sonam also urged the authority to immediately repeal AFSPA from the Northeast.   
"The Centre should refrain from retaining AFSPA in any form,  there are various  Laws and Acts under IPC to control any kind of insurgency but misusing AFSPA and killing innocent people is not acceptable," he asserted.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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