Imphal : The medical students mostly the Meiteis staged a candlelight protest at the premises of the Prime Medical College, Rampur in Bangladesh on Thursday night against the killings of two teenage Meiteis students – Phijam Hemanjit (20) and Hijam Linthoingambi alias Luwanganbi (17) by the armed Kuki miscreants in the ongoing communal clashes in Manipur. 

A good number of students from Manipur are at present studying in this college. The festoons and placards were stalled at the protest site that read, “We are demanding early justice for the killing of two students.” The two students of Manipur went missing after they went out on a motorcycle on July 6 in the Churachandpur district of Manipur. They have been assumed dead after their photographs surfaced on social media on September 25.

There are around 15, 000 Meiteis who are found in four districts, namely Sylhet District, Moulvibazar District, Sunamganj District, and Habiganj District of the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh.

Supriya Bhattarai, a leader of the students at the sideline of the protest stated that the authorities concerned of the Indian government should hand over the dead bodies of the two students to the next of kin of their families at the earliest.

She said that our Medical College which is a prestigious Private Medical College located in Pirzabad, on the western fringes of Rangpur, Bangladesh shared the grief and sorrows of the deceased families. We strongly condemned the act of the Kuku militants for their killing of innocent students.

The student leader also stated that the culprits must be arrested soon booked and punished according to the law of the Indian government.

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