Dr. Swapan Das
Volume-XIII, Issue-I, October 2024
Volume-XIII, Issue-I, October 2024 | ||
Published Online: 31.10.2024 | Page No: 106-111 | |||
Story of
Manipur
Dr. Swapan Das, Assistant Professor, Department of
Political Science, Jagannath Singh College, Udharbond, Cachar, Assam, India | |
The present-day story of North-Eastern state Manipur is deep, shocking and painful to any sensible person. What’s the issue, that rises many questions to many minds especially the longevity of the violence and the question which even crosses the boundary of the state, this is undesirable and unacceptable. The day-by-day violent incidences and its continuity in the small state of Manipur has not only given birth of questions but also gave birth of new questions which also turned to an environment of requestion and confusion. The issue is that two communities in Manipur have been pitted against each other in an atmosphere of war of ethnic violence that has really been seen in the country in the past few decades. Two ethnic groups armed to the teeth, a buffer zone between, where hill cannot go to valley and valley cannot go to hill. About sixty thousand people displaced from their home living a life of alien in their own land not from one or two months but from more than one year has created a situation of Topsy-Turvey not confined in Manipur only. All these happenings in Manipur are a crime against humanity and this is the harsh reality that humanity will face in future. Apparently, it seems that most of the questions raised from different sections of the society are political in nature, where there is no finality. But the biggest question stuck is that what are the larger agenda behind the violence of Manipur? Manipur violence is mainly happening between two ethnic communities, the community of Meitei people and the community of Kuki people. To understand the violence in Manipur, through this write-up an attempt has been made to understand the differences these two communities, it is not only political and ethnic but also geographical and economical. | |
Keywords: Meitei, Kuki, Ethnic clash, Violence, Community. |