News No.30/2016: Monday,
April 11, 2016
THE army’s undue
interference and increased oppression have forced the people of Sajek to cancel
programmes taken up to celebrate the traditional Boisabi festival.
The organizers of the
Sajek Boisabi Festival Celebration Committee took the decision to cancel the
programmes yesterday.
‘We have taken the
decision because the army has stepped up its interference in our programmes’,
one of the organizers told chtnews.com, adding that the decision was a
kind of protest against unwarranted and undue interventions of the army in our
business.
He said the committee
had a plan to organize traditional sports events including wrestling and
cultural shows before holding a prize-giving ceremony marking the end of the programmes.
‘The programme was to
set off on April 08, but as the army took away two of our fellow villagers the
festive mood changed to a gloomy one, and we decided to postpone the
inauguration of the programme for the day,’ he said.
The two men were eventually
released after torture in Baghaihat zone, and the next day the committee held
traditional sports events such as ghila khara and Nadeng
khara.
The programme was to end
with a prize-giving ceremony today.
‘But the army told us
that we must organize the prize-giving ceremony under the banner of the
Baghaihat zone, invite the zone commander to attend the ceremony and ask him to
distribute the prizes to the recipients.’ the organizers said and added that
‘it was too much to shallow and that was the reason why we cancelled the
programme.’
They said they were left
with no other alternatives than to cancel the programme altogether.
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