Modern technologies and rising crimes

Church leaders along with people in Manipur’s Churachandpur district deliberated on the prevailing crime situation arising out of misuse of modern technologies such as internet, mobile phone and pagers.
“Attending members openly shared their findings and gave suggestions on the prevailing situation of rising crime rate in and around the district”, said a press communiqué of Zomi Human Rights Foundation ’s (ZHRF) Information and Publicity Department.
It said the most pertinent issues within the discussion were abuse of technology such as internet, mobile, and pagers.
The theme of the September 18 discussion was “Ethical Issues relating to current social issue” of the indigenous tribal people.
It was held at Central Lamka Church at Churachandpur, a Kuki-Chin-Mizo dominated south-western district of the state, under the aegis of Evangelical Baptist Convention Church, Central Lamka and ZHRF.
Participants expressed the need to have mass participation to fight against the sexual crime, abuse of information technology.
“We’re sensitizing the issue to create awareness about abuse of technologies to public at large,” the statement said.
Source: e-pao.net