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Road blockade chokes Indian state's lifeline
By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Imphal - 20 May 2010
Road blockade chokes Indian state's lifeline
By Sanjoy Majumder
BBC News, Imphal
They are among several emergency missions carrying desperately needed supplies of food and medicines......
For the past five weeks, two key highways linking this remote state in north-east India to the rest of the country have been blocked by supporters of an influential separatist leader from neighbouring Nagaland.
Thuingaleng Muivah, who heads the NSCN (IM), a Naga group that carried out India's longest-running insurgency until a ceasefire in 1997, has been barred from his village located inside Manipur because the government there fears he will stir up ethnic passions.
Naga civilians block a road in Manipur protest against the state government's decision to ban the entry of Mr Muivah on 7 May 2010 Mr Muivah's supporters are angry at the Manipur ban
The result is that Manipur is close to collapse.
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"It's quite incredible that India, which considers itself a growing superpower, is unable to lift the blockade on the two highways which are part of Manipur's supply route," says Rajkumar Ronendrajit, a retired air force officer-turned-activist.
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The north-east has often felt politically and culturally cut-off from India, untouched by the country's economic boom.
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