CHURACHANDPUR: A platform of Manipur's Kuki organisations said a ‘coffin rally' will be held in Churachandpur on Tuesday to pay tribute and show solidarity to the 10 "tribal village volunteers", who were killed in an alleged gunfight with CRPF in Jiribam district of Manipur.
In a 'joint public notice' on Monday, Zomi Students' Federation (ZSF), Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO) and Hmar Students' Association (HSA) directed schools and colleges to send pupils from class 10 onwards to participate in the event wearing black shirts.
One of the organisers told PTI that they will symbolically carry 10 dummy coffins to pay their respect for the slain youths as the bodies are still lying in the morgue of a local hospital.
After the autopsy conducted at a hospital in Assam's Silchar, the bodies reached Churachandpur, a Kuki-majority district, on Saturday afternoon. The ITLF on Sunday decided that the funeral of 10 youths will not be conducted till their post-mortem reports are handed over to the families.