Imphal, April 13 -- Amid tight security, hundreds of people, mostly women from different communities, paid floral tributes at the memorial stones and statues of the known and unknown martyrs at Cheiraoching, a hill lock, near the Manipur Legislative Assembly on Sunday.

Dressed in the traditional Manipuri mourning attire, the visitors also offered flowers at the memorial sites of Manipur Martyrs Thangal General, Paona Brajabashi, Bir Tikendarjit, and Hijam Irabot.

The memorial is also dedicated to the proscribed Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), the political wing of the banned People's Liberation Army (PLA), and also many unknown soldiers who had laid down their lives for the motherland.

With an order from the authority concerned, th...