Senapati, May 4 (NNN): Due to COVID-19 lockdown, Martyr Day 2020 will not be observed as usual; however, it will be observed symbolically by Mao Council (MC) on May 6.
The Naga people under the aegis of the United Naga Council (UNC) have been observing Martyr Day on May 6 since 2010 at Martyr Park, Mao-Gate, Senapati district which the UNC termed as “supreme sacrifice made by late Neli Chakho and late Dikho Loshou”.
Meanwhile, the UNC appealed “tribes and frontal organizations” to observe the same in their respective jurisdictions at their conveniences.
“On that fateful day, the two students, Neli Chakho and Dikho Loshou, both from the Kalinamai village were shot dead while hundreds of women were brutally assaulted and badly injured and hundreds fled to Kisama and Khuzama villages in Nagaland to escape from the diabolical fury unleashed by the security forces of the Government of Manipur,” UNC stated in a press release.
It stated that the Nagas in Manipur till today acknowledge the “helping hands of our Nagaland brothers and sisters” and particularly to the villages of Kisama and Khuzama for extending helping hands to those displaced Nagas.
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