DC Edit | Government mute as Manipur still bleeds and burns
Deccan ChronicleA sense of fairness on the part of responsible people is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for conflict resolution, and the administrators of Manipur, a state on the boil for well over four months, just lack this. A few days after it restored the Internet, today’s lifeline of communication, and by extension, democracy, the state government has banned the service and reimposed curfew in the state capital following massive protests by students against the murder of two students. It has also decided to extend the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the hill districts where the tribal people live for another six months. If the visuals of the parading of two Kuki women after stripping them naked gave people outside a glimpse of horror that the state had been witnessing and triggered outrage across the nation and the world, this time it is the pictures of two slain Meitei students that has led to massive protests. The incidents stand testimony to the lawlessness the state has landed itself in, and underscore what the Supreme Court said in August last that “there is absolute breakdown of law and order in that state”.
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