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Yet, in the Indian version of democracy it continues to kill people in Kashmir and all over India in places like Manipur, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland etc.
Re: Heavy gunbattle reported from India's Manipur state
When certain people doesnt like democracy they have to be kept away from damaging public properties. The dam is usefull for manipur and not for somewhere in UP or Bihar. But tell me which democracy doesnt use force.
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Why don't indians have the guts or the broadmindedness to protest their own government's attrocities?
In that case, I think atleast pakistanis are much more broadminded (no indian ever protested what india did to kashmir from 1987?).
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^ does that mean the seperatist are angels. They kill innocents. slashing throughts of normal citizens. What should be done to counter that. Being freedom fighter they should have the full support of the people. Kashmiri seperatist lacks that. Whenever there is excess use of force anywhere in India people do come out in open demanding an explanation from the govt.
Re: Heavy gunbattle reported from India's Manipur state
I don't know how the name Pakistan came about but the way Pakistanis have appointed themselves as QA for India, PaQAstan seems more appropriate. It's a bit irritating to see some (thankfully that's a tiny minority) whose calling in life seems to be just highligthing any bad news from India. Until Kashmir elections and Mushraf deal, they survived by talking up India's troubles in Kashmir. Before that it was Punjab and now they're trying to drum up Manipur. get a life
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^ tsk tsk...poor Manipuri's...nothing similar to that of Indians.....North East should join together & get rid of indian raaj...
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^ No it is indians launching statements against ‘internal matters’ of Pakistan that should GET A LIFE (and also become more broadminded in that).
No wonder india will never become a superpower! 
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Why is pakistan acting as if there are saviours of muslims in India and all over the world. :). I think its just tit for tat. Why so khujli when pakistan itself gets involved in kashmir. Why so khujli when itself get involved in Afghanistan.
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Violence continues to grip Manipur.
Re: Heavy gunbattle reported from India’s Manipur state
**India: Manipur state shut down by general strike **
Routine life came to a standstill in Manipur following a 16-hour “lightning general strike” called by three students’ organisations from midnight last to protest alleged atrocities on civilians by personnel of 24th Assam Rifles battalion, official reports said. Markets, shops and business establishments remained closed in response to the general strike while transport services between Manipur and neighbouring states and those within the state were also cancelled, the reports said. Attendance in government offices was reported to be nil in view of the general strike called by the All Manipur Students Union (AMSU), Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur (DSAM) and Manipur Students Federation (MSF). The organisations said in a joint statement that the strike has also been called to support the ongoing agitation of over 1,500 women demanding immediate shifting of 24th Assam Rifles personnel from the border town of Moreh for committing atrocities on civilians there. The reports said most of the important roads in the valley districts wore a deserted look as people preferred to remain indoors in response to the general strike. Over 1,500 women who launched a sit-in protest at no man’s land near Manipur-Myanmar international border to press for shifting of the 24th Assam Rifles personnel from Moreh concluded their stir late last evening, following assurance from the authorities that their demand would be looked into. Army authorities under whose command the central para-military forces were operating assured people and civil organisations that no excesses would be allowed by security personnel deployed at Moreh area, the reports said.
http://libcom.org/news/article.php/manipur-general-strike-240106
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Manipur Burning Dangerously
By Atul Cowshish & M Rama Rao - Syndicate Features
Everybody in the country knows that terrorism takes the heaviest toll of human life in Jammu and Kashmir. But not many outside the north-east region may be aware that the second in this dubious list is the tiny state of Manipur that occupies a little over 22,000 sq km. While Jammu and Kashmir accounts for over 1000 deaths in a year, the figure in Manipur is less than 400. It is, however, a high casualty rate for a state with a population of about 2.5 million. Though acts of insurgency are common to almost all the ‘seven sisters’ of the north-east, over 46 percent of insurgency-related deaths in the region are reported from Manipur alone. The state has just 6.3 percent of the total population of the north-east and occupies 8.52 percent of the land mass of the region. What is alarming is that 72 percent of the fatalities in the security forces operating in the region are reported from Manipur. Clearly, a dangerous place from the security point of view. There are more worrisome aspects of insurgency in Manipur. The writ of the rebels runs in many areas of the state as civil governance has retreated from these areas. The insurgents are able to terrorise civilians as well as government employees and freely kidnap or kill those who refuse to ‘cooperate’ with them or accede to their demands. There are reports of a ‘nexus’ between politicians and insurgents. No less a person than the chief of the army staff, Gen J. J. Singh had reportedly said that the chief minister had paid Rs 1.5 crore to insurgents groups in the state. If the head of the executive has to pay this kind of ransom or protection money (or whatever one may call it) the plight of the ordinary persons can be well imagined. The militants have been becoming bolder and bolder while protests by employees and the general public seem to have made no impact either on the militants or the government. Militants subject people to frequent ban orders of various sorts. Travel through the state becomes difficult not only because of the insurgency but because of frequent blocking of national highways by the militants.
In recent times the militant outfits—there are almost a dozen in the state—have decreed that senior high school girl students wear the traditional dress; government doctors should not work in private clinics; ‘cabin restaurants’ should be shut down; sale and consumption of tobacco products was banned in the capital; no film shooting for musical albums; no local fairs. In July 2004 the entire Manipur had risen as one person with many women and human rights organisations in the country providing the lead, against the custodial killing of Manorama Devi, by the security forces. She was dubbed a terrorist by the forces but her family has denied it. Whatever the truth, the army image had taken a severe beating in the troubled state to make anti-insurgency operations more difficult. There are demands from the rebel groups that the army should be withdrawn. It is unlikely to be accepted by the government of India but it can and should give a serious consideration to another demand from various sections in Manipur: withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act which gives sweeping powers to the army, including the licence to kill a suspect on sight. The government has been vague about this demand. On December 31, 2005, shock waves were sent across Manipur and beyond when rebels ambushed and killed an IG rank officer along with his driver at a place just 25 km south of Imphal. Some believe it was an act of revenge for an earlier killing of four rebels by security forces. Manipur has been on the boil for very long, probably ever since it was constituted in 1972. It may look strange to some that ethnic tensions have risen greatly in the state after declaration of ‘peace’ by the Nagas, one of the three major tribes in the state—the Kukis and the Zomis being the other two. The Nagas agreed to a ceasefire only after reiterating their goal for obtaining a Greater Nagaland that will include areas now in the state of Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and even Myanmar.
The history of strife in Manipur can be traced to an even longer period and time has made it more complex. The Manipur of today was used to a sort of monarchical rule till it was annexed by the British in 1891. This was followed later by the arrival of the missionaries in the north-east who have been often accused of playing a ‘divisive’ game in the region. It did not help matters that the British Raj took little interest in the development of the region. Before anyone could realise the gravity of the situation a demographic convulsion had taken place in Manipur. Separatist forces that emerged later exploited the sharp cultural differences among the local communities. According to the 1901 census, the Meities—Vaishanavite Hindus—constituted 60 percent of the state’s population while ‘animistic tribes’ accounted for 36 percent and the Muslims were four percent population. By the 1991 census, the Meiti Hindu population had declined to 57 percent while the Christian and Muslim population crossed 34 percent and 7 percent respectively. The Meitis still remain the largest ethnic group who live in the four ‘valley’ districts that forms 10 percent of the total area of Manipur (the state is divided into a total of nine districts). The tribals, largely restricted to the hill districts, enjoy certain privileges denied by law to the Meitis. The hill tribes can settle in the valley, buy land and property but the Meitis cannot do the opposite: settle in the hill districts. The mistrust between the Meities and the tribal population on the one hand has increased while divisions within the tribal population have also accentuated. In fact, there are frequent instances of inter-tribal clashes. There is no sign to suggest any immediate improvement in the Manipur situation. The New Year (2006) began with 18 killings in the first week of the month while the situation in the other troubled states of the north-east, according to some observers, has shown signs of improvement. Not that there is no desire for peace in Manipur. In July last year, the state legislative assembly had passed a resolution seeking initiatives for peace talks with the rebels. But it made little progress because while the rebels were rather indifferent to the call, the authorities too had not worked out a strategy to deal with the turbulence in the state.
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Violence continues to rack Manipur, as five Indian soldiers injured in bombing.
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Four policemen killed by rebels in Manipur
Four policemen and a civilian were killed on Monday in an ambush by separatist guerrillas in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur, police said. Heavily armed rebels fired on a vehicle carrying at least half a dozen policemen at a busy market in Thoubal, about 35 km south of Imphal, Manipur’s capital, they said. Four policemen were killed instantly and two others were wounded. A civilian bystander was also killed. “Reinforcements have rushed to the area to launch search operations to catch the militants. The identity of the group is not known,” a police spokesman told Reuters by phone from Imphal.
At least a dozen armed separatist groups operate in Manipur, one of seven states in India’s turbulent northeast, home to some 200 tribal and ethnic groups. They have been fighting for more than three decades either for freedom or for more political autonomy, blaming New Delhi of neglecting the economy of the region.