Category Archives: Press Releases

July 15, 2011 The Sinlung Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Organisation (SIPHRO) is deeply concerned by the recent statement of the new Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd., (NEEPCO) who alleged that environmentalists and NGOs are misleading … Continue reading →

PRESS RELEASE May 30, 2010 Sinlung Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Organisation (SIPHRO) is utterly shocked at the rising and excessive uses of violence by the security forces of the Government of Manipur against innocent civilians.

PRESS RELEASE May 28, 2010 Sinlung Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Organisation (SIPHRO) strongly condemns the violent atrocities of the State’s forces on May 26, 2010 against the democratic voices of the indigenous communities protestesting against a series of issues arising … Continue reading →

PRESS RELEASE May 10, 2010 The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Government of Manipur with the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and Shimla-based Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (SJVN) on April 28, 2010 at Faridabad, for building the … Continue reading →

PRESS RELEASE (February 02, 2010) Sinlung Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Organisation (SIPHRO) conducted a Social Audit on Tipaimukh Dam project last year in Assam, Manipur and Mizoram. This is the first pioneering work that thoroughly studied the possible adverse impact … Continue reading →

MEMORANDUM To, The Chairman National Human Rights Commission Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg New Delhi – 110001 Subject: Epidemic deaths

PRESS RELEASE (May 05, 2009) Tipaimukh and Thanlon sub-divisions in Manipur’s Churachandpur district is, once again, threatened by the outbreak of a disease that has tolled the lives of more than thirty five(35) children, mostly infants. The strange disease, called … Continue reading →

Concerned with the certain impacts the Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Project would have on the indigenous Hmar people and others who will be affected by the proposed Mega Dam, Sinlung Indigenous People Human Rights Organisation (SIPHRO) makes its stand clear on … Continue reading →

HWA, Hmarram region Press Statement May 23, 2006 On behalf of the Hmar Internally Displaced Persons and victims of rape and torture, the Hmar Women Association, Tipaimukh Area, Churachandpur, Manipur express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all who have … Continue reading →

Aizawl, May 12, 2006 Parbung and Lungthulien are two small villages in Tipaimukh sub-division, Churachandpur District of Manipur where people belonging to the Hmar tribe lived. This area, for sometime, has been infested by militants of the United National Liberation … Continue reading →