As India rises, northeast state wracked by chaos
- Foxnews.com -
As India rises, northeast state wracked by chaos reads the title of an article by Fox news published on 2nd April 2011. It writes about how people in Manipur face various problems when India claims itself to be rising. The state is regularly paralyzed by bandhs, or protest strikes. Shops in Imphal close at 6 p.m., and streets empty soon after nightfall.
How this fears has developed a culture of going to bed early in Manipur. It says, Manipur University has become a battle ground yet the Vice Chancellor denies it.
The article also writes about how a contractor, even when he was awarded a 320 million rupee ($7 million) contract, still builds an under standard building or road.
It further says, in one region under de facto militant control, a construction worker requires a letter from the UG confirming he had paid the militants their shares in order to cash his paycheck.
The Security forces, in turn, are accused of carrying out their own terror with mass arrests, disappearances and staged killings, including the shooting of a pregnant woman and an unarmed ex-militant in Imphal's busy market in 2009.
Home Affairs Minister P. Chidambaram while addressing Parliament in January says security in the northeast showed "remarkable improvement." However, he points out that Manipur is an exception.
For Irom Sharmila, hope is still alive and she can't give up hope and she continues to fast.
You can read the entire article at Fox News here.
This article was posted on April 03, 2011.
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