Evolution of Economic blockade as rites

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By: Nongmaithem Meghanath *

Imagine a situation where an economic blockade (warring blockade) is overridden by a new economic blockade and then by another blockade. It will be fun to watch, two could go hand in hand even though objectives could be different but a third one would obviously mean trouble.

Probably they may end up forming an action committee with a lot of understanding between them, however the chances of 2 groups bonding more out of the 3 is a stone hit on the wall. Imagine the Government being bombarded with 3 action items on their platter with each of the action item with unique nature and characteristic.

"Buy three get one free", is a very prominent characteristic in the market and if the Government buys the demand of three group then the rule set of consumer expectations says there would have to be another demand coming with those 3, maybe for some other group.

We have 2 strong brothers running a campaign of holding people stomach on ransom at the moment; they are rigid with a touch of severity on their stands. April 16 or 17th, they have promised to give a stronger version of their currently running campaign.

It seems serious now with 2 weeks being a good amount of time to take the entire state to its knee if things don't get resolved. Economic blockade is a very frequent exercise carried out by our brothers inhabited in and around the national highways and usually doesn't last long looking at the trends unless backed up by worth fearing groups.

Can't we have a calendar for Economic Blockade like those in well-planned companies? I think it will be much easier for the people to plan out their living while other exercise their myth in the Highways.

By the way, what is the reason for such a big exercise? Is it just about the Roadwork contracts given to xyz? I really don't know, what I know is some group of people is getting annoyed, some group of people is anticipating a good profit margin on their stock while some are loosing earnings, some group of people is loosing their daily bread and a majority of people are suffering with fear and daily needs scarcity.

The most interesting part is, it has become so indispensable for the warring groups to exercise their agitation methodology. This methodology is about thrashing back to the general population and it seems everyone have started feeling this as a cultural evolution and you never know it might as well become a part of ethnical Religious rites.

Imagine performing 1 month of Economic Blockade as religious rites every year. It's an auspicious trading process to gain attention and momentum of a demand in this so-called Manipur state (The demand could be as complex as a political strategies and as simple as household grievances).

Couples of years down the line, the definition of Economic Blockade could possibly be redefined as a system mainly used in Manipur to hit the stomach of general population and gain groups interest. It may be noted; the criticism bore by US for putting Economic Blockade to Cuba and it may also be noted that such a thing was considered immoral and inhumane by the whole world.

The literal meaning itself says, you block someone's economy because you don't get what you wanted.

Type "economic blockade" in google.com, one of the most efficient search engines that covers almost everything. The result you get talks only about ATSUM, ZSO, KSU, Manipur, and you may see an indispensable word attached to economic blockade as "indefinite".

Anyone googling on "economic blockade" would find only about Manipur (probably a page or two for Cuba). The question is, is economic blockade legally authorized to be carried out as a mode of agitation? Is this not a challenge to the Human rights? Is it not an Infringement on rights of living?

The Authorities both Govt. as well as non-Govt. posted in and around the Highways are not able to loot from the people like they always do because of this blockade.

They are waiting for their scores after the 2 ambitious brother releases the abduction of the highways. The stretch from Mao to Dimapur has been the worst experience for any of the travelers till now and should expect worst post the blockade.

Suggest not taking "moreh achapot" as you may not want it to be taken away at each checkpoint.

Nongmaithem Meghanath says "I write my surname first (to show that I belong to a yumnak which acts very formal yet talks a lot) and followed by my names which identify me as one of them."
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This article was webcasted on April 17th, 2006.

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