Protests against
the Naga militant outfit NSCN-IM, presently observing a ceasefire,
continued in Manipur Monday, even as five policemen were suspended over
the firing incident a day earlier at Thangmeiband Sinam Leikai area in
Imphal that left a television journalist dead.
The journalist was
killed in police firing on protestors demanding the arrest of a member
of National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) for
sexually assaulting a film actress.
Thangjam Nanao Singh of Prime
Time, a Guwahati-based satellite channel, was killed Thangmeiband area
in the afternoon when police opened fire to disperse supporters of the
Manipur Film Forum who had allegedly torched a police vehicle, a police
official said.
Police said the journalist succumbed to his bullet wounds at the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital here.
As
the news of the journalist being killed in a police firing spread,
protestors went on a rampage, torching a government office at
Laiphamkhunou in Imphal west and four vehicles at Andro parking area,
Langol and Khurai area.
The authorities Monday reimposed
curfew from 11 a.m. in Imphal East and Imphal West districts after a
large number of protestors took to the streets in Imphal to protest the
police's inability to arrest the NSCN-IM (National Socialist Council of
Nagaland - Isak-Muivah) leader who had allegedly molested a Manipuri
film actress Dec 18 during a musical concert in Chandel district....read more.
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