A UK-based Indian-origin girls’s group organised a silent protest march right here to register their protest towards the violence in Manipur.
The Ladies of North East India Help Community (WNESN) organised a gaggle of women and men in face masks to suggest silence and carried placards outdoors the Indian Excessive Fee right here.
The group then marched in the direction of Parliament Sq. to conclude their protest on the statue of Mahatma Gandhi reverse the Home of Parliament complicated on Wednesday night.
Collectively we marched in solidarity to share the ache and anguish of our two Kuki-Zo sisters of Manipur who have been paraded bare and gang-raped, WNESN stated in an announcement.
The group was fashioned in 2020 through the pandemic as a community-based girls’s assist community.
Their silent march got here within the wake of a video from Manipur final week of two tribal girls being paraded bare, which sparked shock and outrage.
A prime authorities functionary stated in New Delhi on Thursday that the CBI will probe the case of sexual assault on the 2 Manipuri girls and that no effort might be spared to make sure stringent motion towards the accused in all heinous crimes within the state hit by ethnic violence.