The 7th anti-opium day was organised on September 25 under the theme “Live a life worthy of its gifts in abstinence from Opium” by Chen Area Students’ Union (CASU) throughout the villages under Chen Area.
CASU has been organising this event annually since 2003 and has been instrumental in banning the substance in the area where consuming of opium was once openly widespread.
Rallies were organised by federating units in each village under CASU executives’ supervision, where impressive crowds gathered shouting slogans and singing songs.
For several decades after Kani (Opium) was introduced to Konyaks, the reminiscence can still be seen, though isolated, in certain confines of our society, amongst which Chen Area is one.
This menace slowly spread unchecked and has today, impacted the society at an unprecedented scale.
The readily availability of Kani has exposed the youth into its fold and there are instances where slowly and steadily, this evil has resulted in lost of properties, families have been shattered and any human rational thinking have all vanish to ashes.
The CASU, in coordination with its counter parts, Phomching Area Students’ Union (PASU) made a joint declaration to do away with Kani within shared international border with Myanmar in 2004.
Furthermore, in the same year, CASU had also signed a MoU with Ganglei Range and Tethra Range Students’ Union (Northern Myanmar) and had gone to the extend of destroying poppy fields in an attempt to cut supplies.
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