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Don't Be Fooled... Violence Against Kuki Women in Manipur Was Allowed to Happen
What’s chilling is the cynicism of the top man running the country. Why is the prime minister unmoved?
The video of two Kuki-Zo women being paraded naked and their private parts touched by humans-turned-monsters is a chilling account of what has been allowed to happen in Manipur under the watch of both the Central and the state governments that are seemingly unmoved by this saga of brutality against hapless women.
A statement by the Manipur Police says that FIRs have been filed against unknown armed miscreants who committed the heinous crime.
Are the armed miscreants unknown when their faces and their ignominious deeds were clearly visible? Is this what policing has come to? It's almost as if the perpetrators of the crime want to deliver a death blow to the hopes of the Kuki-Zo community of ever returning to their indigenous habitat.
No less than the European Parliament passed a resolution against the atrocities inflicted on the Kuki-Zo community since 3 May – when violence first erupted in Churachandpur.
A violence that can last this long with gun battles happening on a daily basis can only mean one of two things – either the state has failed miserably or the violence has been allowed to happen with the intent of driving out the last of the tribals from the hills of Manipur.
And what better justification than to label all the Kuki-Zo people with one broad sweep of ‘illegal migrants.” How convenient for the government of Manipur, which is now seen as the eternally vigilant Leviathan guarding the frontiers of Bharat on behalf of the 1.4 billion population – a majority of which does not even know what Manipur is and where it is located on the map.
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Why is the Prime Minister Unmoved?
In this sordid saga of revenge and retaliation that has reached a despicable low, there is only so much that pen-pushers like this one can do to shake the souls of fellow Indians out of the complacency that distance lends, and to ask them if they too can feel the searing pain of this scourge that’s visiting their sisters in a part of their own country.
What is happening in Manipur is so wrong substantively and morally but what’s chilling is the cynicism of the top man running the country – Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Why is he unmoved by all these brutally inhuman acts perpetrated by mindless bigots in a state presided over by a venomously partisan chief minister?
Manipur is in a state of precipitous decline, yet the Centre continues to look the other way. It has now made even the neighbouring states wonder if this model of vote bank politics – where the polity is viciously polarised – will be allowed to play out there as well.


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