IT News
Imphal, Nov 17:
The Thadou Students’ Association, General Headquarters (TSA-GHQ) condemns in the strongest term the premeditated savage terror attack over ambush of Colonel Viplav Tripathi’s convoy, commanding officer of 46 Assam Rifles battalion comprising a quick-reaction team, thereby killing Colonel Viplav Tripathi, his wife and son, along with four soldiers at Behiang T village near the village cemetery under Singhat Sub-Division, Churachandpur district, Manipur on November 13, 2021 around 10 am by unidentified heavily armed assailants, suspected to be a Valley based militant group.
The assailants used sophisticated weapons, including automatic rifles, IEDs and lethod bombs to attack the convoy where the commanding officer of 46 Assam Rifles, wife and son of the CO’s and four others were killed, claiming a total of 7(seven) in martyrdoms and other 6 (six) soldiers were injured severely.
The unprovoked firing, bombing and premeditated colossal attack has inflicted maximum casualty and deaths; this could have also caused deaths and heavy casualty to dozens of civilians, including women and children who were in a Behiang T village that came under attack and fortunately are saved from the attacker.
TSA can, also, never accept the ambush and killing of the wife and son of Colonel Viplav Tripathi. The armed militant group responsible for this horrible terror attack must clarify to the public why they carried out such devilish attack in the community. The government must also clarify why they continue to allow some armed group/s to continue their criminal, anti-social and terror activities to the detriment of peace and public safety, and not taken any effective preventative or deterrent measures.
For justice in the incident and for lasting peace and security in and around international border areas, the government authorities must take stringent punitive actions against the perpetrators, immediately arrest all those involved in the attack and the masterminds and bring them to justice and also remove them permanently from border and its surrounds.
