Following the outbreak of ethnic violence on May 3, the Defence and Home Ministries deployed over 40,000 personnel from the army...
Digital Desk: Three months after violence erupted between the Kuki-Zo-Chin tribes and the Meiteis, the central government dispatched over 900 additional security personnel amid rising tensions in Manipur.
According to a senior police officer, the Home Ministry has sent 10 more companies, or approximately 900 soldiers, of the paramilitary units CRPF, BSF, ITBP, and SSB to Manipur. They landed in the state capital, Imphal, on Saturday night. They are being deployed in several districts of the northeastern state.
Following the outbreak of ethnic violence on May 3, the Defence and Home Ministries deployed over 40,000 personnel from the army, the paramilitary Assam Rifles, and various Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).
The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella body of the Meitei community, as well as the leading Kuki organizations Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) and Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM), have accused the state police forces and a section of the central forces of playing partisan roles.
According to reports, some women's organizations are creating obstacles in the way of the independent operations of the security forces, and they frequently put up roadblocks to slow the movement of CAPFs and state forces.
According to some media reports, women are looking for the identities of key police officers due to distrust and suspicions that some members of the force are playing political roles.
According to a Manipur Police statement, security officers have recovered 1,195 looted guns and 14,322 different types of ammunition from around the state.
Mobs and militants have taken around 4,000 sophisticated weapons and thousands of different types of ammunition from police stations and outposts-old since the conflict erupted on May 3.
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