Let there be peace
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: May 11 2015 -
It is encouraging to note that after the senseless firings at Pallel Aimol Satu on May 5 and follow up ferment from the offended and frenzied people the situation is limping back to normality.
However it appears that some agents provocateurs who would not like to see a unified Manipur where all communities live in peace and harmony are inciting some sections.
The innocent villagers had gone to the extent of paying punitive fine for disrupting the Lai Haraoba (sylvan god) festivity on May 5 night and a formal public apology is not a taxing embarrassment.
Incensed at this obstinacy the people of Pallel side are threatening to refund the punitive fine which will mean opening the partially healed scab.
The government and the elected members in these areas have a great role to play in ensuring that the innocent and helpless villagers are not made pawns in this dirty game.
Police are also in a slumber mode. Except for the surrender of one suspect (as declared by the home minister) police have not inched forward.
They do not know identity of his accomplices and details of the guns used in the mad attack.
Though the investigation machinery of the police is a world class joke this slow motion probe will stoke the burning brand.
If the culprits are nabbed and booked there will be complete peace.
Certainly the way police are fumbling the investigation will burn up the embers again and the government ought to know it.
Except for the persons who were at the firing lines and their close family and personal and organisational associates other sections of people as a whole have exercised exemplary restraint.
But the ham fisted handling of the explosive situation will only aggravate the situation.
Home minister ought to intervene and supervise the investigation so that the problem is solved once and for all.
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