Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang (ABAM) has extended solidarity with the victims of violence that broke out on Wednesday across the neighbouring State of Manipur. It also said that it prays for restoration of peace in the state.

On Friday, the Mungdang said in its statement, ‘We condemn the act of brutality against innocent lives particularly killing Christians, burning down of Churches, vandalizing private houses, giving rise to religious and social unrest in the region.

‘We are saddened to see the element of elimination of a particular religion or ethnicity through the expansion of power, exploitation of lower tribe or class and rejection of morality,’ it added.

ABAM urged ‘all right-thinking people to overcome forces that perpetuates dissection and cause polarization and pray for communal harmony amongst the people through unitive agencies.’