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Manipur: The Myth of the Blockade
NDTV | Sreenivasan Jain | Dec 21, 2011,
Before we set off from Delhi to report Manipur's 100 day long economic blockade, we thought we would be telling the story of a massive crisis: a shortage of essentials, soaring prices, a government - state and Centre - that is paralysed.
But as we discovered the ground realties are far more complex, with rising levels of scepticism - even direct accusations: how deep is the shortage? Is it genuine or manufactured? Are security concerns tying the hands of the state or are there political gains from the blockade?
Are their monetary gains, to put it bluntly, corruption? Over the next 30 minutes - the anatomy of a bewildering siege, which has called into question the role of all players - Centre, state and the ethnic groups that have laid partial siege to the state.
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