India must pull it’s army out of this state, and stop killing it’s people.
Heavy gunbattle reported from Manipur
Heavy exchange of fire was reported on Saturday between Border Security Force personnel and militants in interior Thoubal district of Manipur. Insurgents opened fire on BSF personnel who were combing Chingdompok hilly area, about 50 kms south-east of Manipur, official sources said adding the ensuing gunbattle lasted for some hours and more forces have rushed to the spot. However, casualty, if any, was not immediately known, they said. Sources said some militants attacked the BSF post located at Chingdompok some days ago by hurling a powerful bomb and a BSF jawan was injured in that attack. After the incident, BSF personnel had intensified a manhunt in the area, sources said. The area is infested by various militant groups, they said
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Talk about insecurity biting the pussycat! This is hilarious: I could only expect such a post from an Indooan! Someone just pulled down his stinkin dhoti! That said, it’s really sad that these Manipuris have been neglected by Indooa for the past 55 years, and that is just apparent from the state of affairs in the places like Assam. Though a LOT of wealth is derived from that state, not even a token has been returned. The agricultural plantations in the state are mainly the domain of a few state-backed influentials, and that’s what pisses of the rest of the hugely impoversidhed population. What’s even worse is that the local population has been negelected from the financial returns from the crude oil which is extracted from their land. The effects of all that on their indegenous environment is another issue now. What remains a fact is that Assam remains the most backward and impoversished state in India despite the fact that it’s one of the richest with respect to its natural resources - agricultural or oil-based. Sad.
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**Three killed as BSF opens fire in Manipur **
Three civilians were killed and six injured when security personnel resorted to firing to disperse a crowd which obstructed construction of Khuga Dam in Churachandpur district of Manipur late last night. Sources said inhabitants of areas around Khuga Dam, demanding compensation, destroyed equipment and machines at the dam complex and tried to set fire to offices at Khuga, about 70 kms from here. The crowd also set fire to a police vehicle carrying personnel from Churachandpur police station. As the crowd turned violent, Border Security Force personnel deployed to protect the dam opened fire.
More police forces from Imphal have left for the spot.
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don’t be cruel. BSF ‘jawans’ are wetting their pants in manipur and kashmir. and you’re worrying about your neighbouring countries. buy your jawans dhootis. why don’t you worry about gujrat massacre? but it gets your dhooti in a twist and you go oh well, you’re a democracy. (where legislators accept bribes to ask questions). you’re so worried about poor pakistanis. such nice people.
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Strike called in Manipur to protest Army atrocities
Several organisations of Manipur have called a general strike on January 7 next year to protest against violations of human rights by the Army during operation Tornado at Jiribam. All Manipur Students’ Union (AMSU) and All Manipur Women’s Social Reformation and Development Samaj said they would call a dawn-to-dusk strike starting from 0600 hrs till 1800 hrs. The two organisations here said during a press conference the government and the Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC) had failed to take up any action in this matter. They said the operation was conducted in the last week of October. Various representatives of the government, MHRC members and NGOs had visited Jiribam areas and conducted a on-the-spot inquiry. It was found that the Army had stopped entry of people into the area and women were molested and harassed by the security personnel.
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India rebels kill police officer
A senior police officer has been killed in an ambush by suspected rebels in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur, police say. Inspector General T Thangthuam was travelling from Churachandpur district to the state capital, Imphal, when rebels fired on his vehicle. The police said Mr Thangthuam died on the spot. One of his bodyguards was also killed in the firing. More than 10 rebel groups are active in Manipur. But no group has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack. Mr Thangthuam was working with the state police’s intelligence wing.
‘Revenge killing’
“It appears to be a revenge killing after security forces killed four militants a few days back,” an unnamed security official told Reuters news agency. Reports say that security forces killed four rebels belonging to United National Liberation Front (UNLF), the largest separatist group in Manipur, during a raid on Tuesday. Manipur’s rebel groups represent the state’s majority Hindu Meitei people, but others represent tribes such as the Nagas, Kukis and Zomis. Most of them are fighting Indian rule. Manipur became a fully fledged Indian state in 1972, but unrest has simmered since then over the nature of the remote state’s relationship with the central Indian government. Last summer bitter anti-army protests erupted in the state after the death of a young women arrested by paramilitary forces on suspicion of helping insurgents. The protests were accompanied by demands for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act which gives the army in north-east India sweeping powers to deal with insurgents. **Human rights groups such as Amnesty International say the law has allowed the armed forces to commit human rights abuses with impunity. **
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They are silent it's because when others talk about their country in negative terms. But they would not be silent when it comes to negative talks about China or Pakistan. I am sure they would be the first to jump to talk bad about others than of their own.
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**Manipur mob seethes **
The tension-filled atmosphere in Manipur for most of 2005 spilled over into the New Year with mob violence rocking Churachandpur district after the death of the inspector-general of police in charge of intelligence and another policeman in a militant ambush yesterday. The jittery administration clamped prohibitory orders within a five-km radius of the district headquarters when mobs started damaging trucks and blocked roads in a show of anger over the killing of T. Thangthuam. Militants of the People’s Liberation Army, one of the few militant groups in the region that have yet to show any inclination to sit for talks with Delhi, ambushed the IGP’s convoy when he was returning to Imphal after a visit to his native district. Thangthuam and the commander of his escort team, havildar Kharsiam, were killed on the spot. Four other security personnel were seriously wounded. The IGP’s son and daughter-in-law, who were in the same vehicle, escaped unscathed.
The PLA, which is the military wing of the Revolutionary People’s Front, accepted responsibility for the ambush at Oinam Bazaar — in Bishenpur district — later in the day. The bodies of the slain policemen were cremated in their native villages in the district today. All shops and business establishments in Churachandpur remained closed for the second consecutive day to protest the killings. Mobs were on the rampage last night, targeting buses and motorcyclists. Three persons injured in the melee at one place were admitted to the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal. Another round of arson was barely averted after a cortege with the IGP’s body reached the district headquarters this afternoon. Army and paramilitary forces were deployed to keep the situation from spinning out of control. Sources said four police commando teams from Imphal were rushed to Churachandpur and a police officer of the rank of deputy inspector-general was posted there specifically to oversee the security arrangements.
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silly, in the last post which has a link in it clearly states that the people in that area are angered by the killing of the police officers who are themselves manipuries.
That said, it’s really sad that these Manipuris have been neglected by Indooa for the past 55 years, and that is just apparent from the state of affairs in the places like Assam. Though a LOT of wealth is derived from that state, not even a token has been returned. The agricultural plantations in the state are mainly the domain of a few state-backed influentials, and that’s what pisses of the rest of the hugely impoversidhed population. What’s even worse is that the local population has been negelected from the financial returns from the crude oil which is extracted from their land. The effects of all that on their indegenous environment is another issue now. What remains a fact is that Assam remains the most backward and impoversished state in India despite the fact that it’s one of the richest with respect to its natural resources - agricultural or oil-based. Sad.
don’t be cruel. BSF ‘jawans’ are wetting their pants in manipur and kashmir. and you’re worrying about your neighbouring countries. 
buy your jawans dhootis. why don’t you worry about gujrat massacre? but it gets your dhooti in a twist and you go 
oh well, you’re a democracy. (where legislators accept bribes to ask questions). you’re so worried about poor pakistanis. such nice people. 