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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

9 months

You may have tremendous contribution in sports and cultural life of the country or in defence services with three stars generals and decorated officers, including those who had commanded 'surgical' operations or sacrificed fighting Al-Qaeda in foreign soil... Manipuri dance may

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'Prompt CBI enquiry'? As if it was handed over to the CBI after the photo of the two teens went viral on social media! Wasn't the case handed over to the CBI on 28th August? After the police seemingly found it difficult to trace the kids who went missing from July 6 and were

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9 months

So many lives of innocent men, women and children sacrificed simply because some want 'Separate Administration'? #ManipurFightsBack

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9 months

The cold-blooded murder of the two teens, a girl and a boy, who went missing since the first week of July, is deeply hurtful and makes me angry while still being aware of the other tragic events. But to me, this tragedy does not merely speak of the unprecedented violence that

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9 months

Come what may, you may have hatred or dislike for me or anybody in your life, but hold your Holy Bible and look deep inside you and think of and judge the narratives that you are weaving around that young teenage girl, and sense your being as a human being and as a 'believer'.

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9 months

Beware! A relative lull in violence, and as the state increasingly comes under the scrutiny of the people, and correspondingly the confrontation between citizens and police/security agencies becomes more palpable, then comes the video...along with some Kuki elites indulging in

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@Bimol_Akoijam

9 months

Whatever it is, you shall pay the price like any community on this earth, including the one you hated the most. Wait and watch. Politics is the art of the possible! It's a struggle Between truth and lies Between ideals and realities Between what it 'is' and what 'ought to be'

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@Bimol_Akoijam

9 months

My child, I can sense your innocence in this cruel world like any other sisters or brothers of yours who happened to be born as someone belonging to this or that community and hence become victims of this madness. Let them tarnish your image or mock the pains of your parents and

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10 months

It's a shameful act for the Editors Guild of India to become an example of what it had appealed to the press to avoid: Being a part of 'the information war' in the ongoing violence! Did they check the veracity of the picture that they published in their report? Publishing Forest

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9 months

Why would a multi-cultural country like India, and her people who have suffered from the colossal violence to fulfill a sectarian demand of 'separate homeland' in South Asia in 1940s ('Partition'), allow this violence to achieve exclusivist and communal ghetto ('separate

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9 months

Today, 3rd October, marks the 5th month of the mayhem that has inflicted terrible violence on the people of Manipur with no immediate solution in sight but glaring signs of insincerity and sinister instrumentality of the 'mai-baaps' sitting some 2000 kms away, and the pathetic

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9 months

The idea behind 'separate administration' that a group of citizens cannot "live together" with another set of fellow citizens of the (same) country is not only ridiculous but also a dangerous idea. For, it amounts to fracturing the 'fraternity' which is at the root of 'unity and

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@Bimol_Akoijam

10 months

The Indian army must ensure that the sanctity of the organization and (professional) integrity of its personnel are not compromised by the ongoing crisis in Manipur. If and when it loses either of the two in the eyes of (any segment of) the citizens, it will erode the fidelity

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

8 months

In solidarity...

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9 months

Right from day one, with those images of people with sophisticated weapons and houses of Meiteis being burnt down in Torbung areas that appeared on social media in real time in the afternoon of 3rd May, much before the violence erupted in Imphal in the late evening, anybody would

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@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

Just because many of these Kukis, Paites,Vaipheis etc have been calling Meitei as a community "rapists", often emboldened by cheering so-called "feminist", "liberal", "progressive" etc from outside the state, do not call these communities "rapists" because some of them have

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8 months

A speech cut short, for it doesn't suit the communal discourse that serves sacterian agenda? But a sensible speech nonetheless, something that comes as a relief after some of those so-called 'progressive' people from outside Manipur have earlier joined the communal bandwagon to

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11 months

Disturbing but not surprise at all...seen many of you and the likes of you. You dare say, "before violence erupted"? Really? This reported rape is in Churachandpur on 3rd May, the day of the so-called peaceful raĺly, when houses of Meiteis were burnt down in Churachandpur as

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A. Bimol Akoijam

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9 months

Leave your communal harangue, atleast for a while, and think of the approaching winter and those who have been dislocated from their homes. I am just a normal human with thoughts and feelings, with all humane qualities, strength and weakness. I intend to buy some blankets, a

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A. Bimol Akoijam

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9 months

I have been in this academic profession for three decades, and I know quite a lot of scholars, including big ones from across the globe or people from the 'margins' with the mainstream like poor me, and others from communities like Kuki, Paite etc. Trust me, I haven't seen or

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Jiribam has become the new site - Shifting or relocating the population and creating the so-called "buffer zone" is nothing but an unconstitutional and ethnic exclusivist act! Onslaught on Manipur must be resisted! #ManipurRemembers #ManipurCrisis #ManipurUnrest

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10 months

Attacking farmers, not allowing them to work is to invite artificial famine! It's a crime against humanity. #StandWithManipurFarmers #SaveManipur #TheWholeWorldisWatching #ManipurViolence

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

10 months

Anybody who is familiar with media studies will know that analysis of news reports based on a review of available literature on media studies and methodology takes time. But even when one does not follow such theoretical and methodological rigour, if one follows a modicum of

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@Bimol_Akoijam

8 months

Next time any communal violence occurs in this country, the government must fervently appeal to the warring communities to have 'heart-to-heart' talk between them to resolve the issues amongst them! The state has no locus standi in such issues, except that it should ensure that

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@Bimol_Akoijam

9 months

For the habitual liars and who thrive on trolling people on social media, this may not matter. But for the rest of you, it might help you to know how and why the word 'miscreants' in the post is being read as 'Kukis', and the post as 'blaming Kukis' for the vandalism and

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@Bimol_Akoijam

9 months

"Still remember this?... aren't you supposed to understand the KukiZos' sentiment the best? Yet you are..."! What a veiled threat!? You are special my dear!

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@Bimol_Akoijam

8 months

Your conduct must be informed or guided by Conviction, Commitment, Conscience and Courage - that's all you need! We shall overcome this onslaught! To all those who feel the sense of loss with the latest killing in Manipur today! #Manipur #ManipurFightsBack #ManipurPolice

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

8 months

A humbling and learning moment in life: With displaced people in a relief camp. They escaped the violence on 3rd May and took refuge in Mayanmar for three months before returning to India...

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

8 months

Shooting farmers, kidnapping and murdering children, killing state officials, economic blockade, hampering resettlement of displaced people - all are parts of a war of attrition that has been unleashed with tacit support from inimical forces to tear apart the society and polity!

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@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

Just as the Kukis have accused Manipur police commandos of aiding Meitei mobs, right from the initial days of this unprecedented violence Meiteis have also been screaming with frustration, alleging that some of these union forces have been aiding the Kukis in their assault on the

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@Bimol_Akoijam

10 months

When I say 'Indian State', as it is defined in Article 12 of the Constitution, if somebody still says, "why blame the Indian state, why don't you talk about the Govt. of Manipur", do I need to answer her/him?

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@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

Those who have questioned the state as to why it has failed to control the violence, and call for peace right from the day one is not a sign of timidity. It's a principled position guided by reality of the present, including beyond its surface, and of the days to come, future as

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@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

Binaries such "minority-majority", "tribal-nontribal", "Hindu-Christian" can conveniently camouflage such real issues! #Meitei #manipurisburning #SaveMeitei #SaveManipur

The Role Of A Plant In Manipur Ethnic Violence

One of the factors of the Manipur ethnic violence, among a multitude of social frictions, include loss of livelihoods of the hill tribes who have depended on poppy cultivation for decades.

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A. Bimol Akoijam

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9 months

"...the silence feeds, and also gets fed by, the cynicism of the helpless (and the cowards?), the twisted logics and myopic visions of the powerful, the blurred boundary between the informed views and rhetoric and hearsays, the forsaken public space inhabited by masquerading

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9 months

If one is truly against the idea of Manipur as an epitome of co-existence of various communities, will it not be in the fitness of things to resign from the State Assembly to make a clear political statement? Isn't it morally and politically repugnant to remain a member of the

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A. Bimol Akoijam

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8 months

Demand for the likes of 'Separate Administration' didn't appear all of a sudden after 3rd of May; those have been there for years - just check out the news reports. And one must also ask and understand whose interest or cause does this violence, which has been allowed to linger

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2 months

"India" is a "Union" of "States" (Article 1). And there cannot be a "whole" without its constituent "parts". Defending "Manipur" is, therefore, defending "India". Correspondingly, destroying "Manipur" is destroying "India"! Let's have this clarity as we confront those forces

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11 months

Defending a united Manipur can only be founded upon a principle of shared beliefs and values that cut across diverse communities. It suits the need of a people in a small and compact territory in a globalized world... United Manipur, therefore, is the opposite of those

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9 months

Unlike those who have followed or converted to some 'religion' for material benifits, and like most religiously spiritual people in the world, to those true believers of Jesus, invocation of the holy book Bible to sense the hatred, the lies and the ignorance that drive their

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11 months

Patriotism is a state of being. It's not nationalism, which is an ideology. Happy to be part of an honest expression of life! Patriots' Day, 13 August, 2023. Thank you MMAB for the opportunity and hospitality. #SaveManipur #ManipurViolence

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9 months

Politics as a normative life in action must be restored!

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11 months

Have a clarity on the issue, its intersecting dimensions. There is, and should be, no doubt on the fact that Human Rights are paramount. However, these rights must be pursued within the concrete condition within which these rights are embedded and inextricably entangled in a web

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11 months

Amongst lies that propagandists have repeated ad nauseam is that there is no Kukis in Imphal, a lie that seeks to justify ethnic cleansing of Meiteis from Churachandpur to justify their demand for a Kuki exclusive 'separate administration'. Check this latest report, that too, by

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@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

Whether one likes it or not, most of the prominant voices against the extractive political economy, the global and local capital, that threatens Manipur, its environment etc are Meiteis, and yet some say, Meiteis are trying to "grab land" to exploit natural resources! Below is

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

The orchestrated violence inagurated on 3rd May, 2023 at Torbung completes three months today (3rd August, 2023) with an attempt to have a mass burial of 'Kukis' who were killed in the violence. Is it just a coincidence or a political message that the planned burial too is at

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A. Bimol Akoijam

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9 months

Rather than denouncing the militaristic approach or militarism implicated in (the use of) AFSPA, communalising its imposition can only be a sign of sectarian and prejudiced mindset!

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

5 months

Besides the burning down of the Forest offices in Churachandpur and Kangpokpi Districts, starting before noon on 3rd May, 2023, this incident at Leishang in early afternoon of the same day shall remain a crucial lead to uncover the mayhem that has come to traumatize Manipur to

TheBlueHills

@TheBlueHills49

5 months

1/5 How #ITLF engineered the #ManipurViolence by burning the Centenary gate at Leishang . This is the first available photo taken at 1421 hours or 2.21 pm on 3rd May, where it is seen that a crowd has gathered at the #CentenaryGate with ‘smoke’ at the foot of the concrete

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A. Bimol Akoijam

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11 months

What is 'ethnic cleansing' and who is committing this crime in Manipur? Ethnic cleansing is, according to UN, 'rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of given (another ethnic) groups from the area.' It is a

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A. Bimol Akoijam

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6 months

My dear 'Kuki' trolls, don't spoil the image of your community here with the unnecessary rants. Much more than you do, I am fairly aware of the weakness of my community, something that I have been trying to address for decades. Try to correct yourself just as some of us have been

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7 months

Those who scream as members of 'the lost tribe' of 'Jews', tell yourself and the world to justify this violence and loss of innocent lives, as to who won the election in Tengnoupal and is it related to what you condemn as 'Meitei CM'? Have the gut and honesty as ' Christian' and

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

Demand for 'separate administration' is not new. This cycle of violence is part of the same politics. In fact, 3rd May, 2023 was the 'Direct Action Day' inaugurated at Churachandpur and border area in neighbouring Bishnupur district by the communal, separatist, disintegrationist

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@Bimol_Akoijam

10 months

Some of you are right. Probably a paid troll. But at one level, it or s/he reminds me of, at best, some of those young excited students. The earlier post was about EGI. But it or s/he says No! Then 'independent' in what sense; The answer follows, 'independent' as in or 'insofar

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@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

For three months, you have not only allowed violence to go on but also disinformation to create confusion and hatred, and you think it is not a failure of the state?

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@Bimol_Akoijam

7 months

No Ningolchakouba, perhaps one of the biggest festive moments in Manipur, and a black-lightless Diwali...More than 70000 displaced people who become homeless and refugees in their own homeland overnight, and 175 plus deaths, and still counting... In the midst of all these,

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9 months

Make no mistake, there is a violent conflict between forces which have no attachment to Manipur and want to tear it apart with utmost contempt and vengeance and those who have strong patriotic attachment to Manipur, and like their forefathers and mothers who have nurtured and

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8 months

A new Manipur entails defeating the communal and sectarian forces that seek to tear apart Manipur, and those who reinforce the authoritarian ethos, such as diktat and (violent) intimidation of the feudal and colonial regimes. Capacity to deal with difference of opinion in a

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A. Bimol Akoijam

@Bimol_Akoijam

5 months

I have seen similar data compiled by some statisticians and demographers as well. This is something that must be looked in. Incidentally, in a report filed by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty eight years ago (Fears Over Land, Identity Fuel Manipur's Bonfire of Anxieties, The Wire,

Ukhrul Times

@ukhrultimes

5 months

#Article : The following Table based on the census data of Manipur for the period 1881-2011 indicates the pattern of abnormal population growth of the Nomadic #Chin - #Kuki - #Zo communities in #Manipur ; As per the Census 1881 the Khongzais in Manipur had population of 17,204 and

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9 months

There have been colossal and violent clashes or riots, some even termed as 'pogrom' and 'genocide', between Hindus and Muslims or Hindus and Sikhs or between castes in this country. But how many of you have heard people preaching and justifying any statement that these groups of

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@Bimol_Akoijam

10 months

The lack of propriety and application of mind marked by certain casualness and hearsay is when Imphal based English dailies are cited as 'vernacular' newspapers! Incidentally, when colonial people called newspapers in languages spoken by natives in South Asia or colonized areas

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@Bimol_Akoijam

5 months

Are some people saying: This is a crusade...We dare you, the Meiteis, we are showing you your place? The "missionaries", the "liberals", the "Zionists", the "national" media etc are with us, behind this crusade? Damn your 'indigenous' religious beliefs? OK! I am no longer sad

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@Bimol_Akoijam

6 months

I have normally avoided mentioning the community. But it seems the time has come to do it. To all my fellow 'Kuki' academics and sensible fellow citizens, please do a systematic research work on how the media published from Imphal, Ukhrul, and Churachandpur cover the crisis in

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@Bimol_Akoijam

8 months

Will it not be appropriate for those Ministers in the present government of Manipur and those MLAs in Manipur State Assembly who have been fuelling this communal harangue for a 'separate administration' to tender their resignation? In fact, shouldn't they have done it a long time

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@Bimol_Akoijam

6 months

Think of the 'Tamil Sangams' and the Bengali led 'Renaissance of India', only then you will realise that you are the only one who is desperately seeking to make yourself 'important' at the expense of your own community heritage/lineage. Check whatever sources, you will see

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@Bimol_Akoijam

7 months

A child who died of an illness being used as a propaganda material?

Bisoya Loitongbam

@BisoyaLoitongb1

7 months

Baby Isaac Hmar with Hirshsprung's disease, developed medical complications. The DC a Meitei, a mother hearself reached out 2 me for d cost of surgery, which I donated. Sadly Baby Isaac passed away. I hope ppl should stop politicising emotive issues & destroy whatever humanity!

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11 months

Your Pavlovian response only affirms the truth that facts and figures can change your ignorance but not your prejudice! That kind of response will only consolidate lying, hatred, prejudice and pretensions as the cardinal traits of your personality as an individual as a

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@Bimol_Akoijam

9 months

There is no valley in plain areas but there are valleys in mountainous or hilly terrains. That's why Manipur is called 'Chingleipak', a hilly land or state.

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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A sense of being a cultural and political community evolved through centuries is a basic foundation and strength. But that in-itself does not ensure the survival of that community. More importantly, that character is not enough to thrive and grow into an entity which can

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7 months

During an interview, I said to Karan Thapar that I prefer the expression 'citizens' over 'indigenous', and that "I do not want to call my fellow citizens 'foreigners'...". But equally insisted that you can't allow all Bengalis from Bangladesh or Tamils from Srilanka or Punjabis

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2 months

Nothing but a twisted busybody doing some dirty job in the name of journalism!

Indii

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2 months

A May 3 special on #Manipur by Patricia Mukhim @meipat needs some debunking. She writes, "Justice is what eludes the Kuki-Zo community, who have been at the receiving end of the conflict." Here's what you missed out on, Patricia. * From May 3, 2023, to April 27, 2024, 102

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6 months

The report will be available online soon

Meitei Heritage Society

@meiteiheritage

6 months

‼️ Was the National Media biased in reporting the #Manipur violence? Yes, a research has revealed with incriminating evidence, what was always suspected. 2 examples below @IndianExpress article of May 3, 2023 @jimmyleivon reports how the violence started

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7 months

Today marks the seventh month of the carnage in #Manipur . I still remember those unbelievable images on social media, of mobs burning houses, and women and children running in panic in Torbung and its adjoining areas...all appeared on 3rd May afternoon itself as the violence

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That I stand for a united Manipur wherein its denizens can lead a harmonious life with dignity and well-being is no secret. My response to the present crisis flows from that vantage point, and come what may, it will stay that way.

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It seems times are changing: there "was" a time when "Kukis" and their surrogates used to troll me here. Now it's turn for some pathetic Meiteis who are known as "MACHUM thakpa" and/or "heinou makhong kunbas" to troll and make senseless retorts here!

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Call it a window to the nature of the chaotic violence perhaps: A crowd shouting expletive and demanding separate administration etc, then listening to and clapping for the one who talked about their 'solidarity' with the Meitei (against corporate forces) and finally shouting

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@Bimol_Akoijam

7 months

Only if your educated elites were honest, you would have known that 'hyphenated' identity has its own 'minority' and 'majority' within, and that a 'United Manipur' is in everybody's favour. #ManipurViolence #ManipurViolence

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8 months

There was this article on 'Separate Administration' authored by Karan Thapar and published by the Wire in 2015, eight years before the present crisis in Manipur. Couldn't trace it. If anyone has access, please do share.

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Manipur is not a fish on the fishmonger's slab; irrespective of any clandestine transaction that might have transpired between inimical forces, as a historically evolved geo-political entity, it shall respond to the attempt to cut it into pieces! #ManipurFightsBack

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@Bimol_Akoijam

8 months

Threat to (the idea and reality of) Manipur as a home to various cognate communities did not start on 3rd May. Contrary to what propagandists would like to preach, it began a long time ago with communalized discourses (e.g, on development issues) that demonized communities (e.g,

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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The implications of this for Manipur in particular and India in general shouldn't be difficult to decipher, albeit the danger posed by the Golden Triangle has always been there for decades. #Manipur #ManipurViolence #Manipurconflict #ManipurUnrest

Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as world's biggest opium producer: UN

Myanmar has become the world's largest producer of opium in 2023, surpassing Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report. The UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates Myanmar produced...

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My heart goes out to the people of my home state Manipur. They have suffered from man-made catastrophes. The unprecedented hailstorm today has caused immense inconvenience and suffering to the people of Manipur who are already reeling under ochastrated violence that aims at

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Manipur is a part of a mountainous region, an extension of the eastern Himalayas forming the Arakan folds, is a fact. Given this, it's no surprise that the erstwhile Planning Commission placed Manipur as a 'Hill State' along with other Himalayan states, including its neighbours

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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@Kautilya33 Normally, I do not respond to unnecessary rants. But your question, though unrelated to EGI, is about the 'rigour' and some aspects of Manipur which is sought to be destroyed, here it is. The 'rigour' is usually in my profession often marked by reading, not merely in terms of

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Near an army camp? And how about the source of the reported 'released' video? It should be tracked and identified.

Manipur Crime News: Man, son among 3 of 4 missing found dead in Manipur | Imphal News - Times of...

IMPHAL: A man and his son were among three people found dead with gunshots to the head in the foothills of Manipur's Bishnupur district on Thursday, a.

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Do not be self-righteous. There are ways to deal with legitimate, surely there are, concerns of smaller furups/communities which need to be addressed. But pushing for ethnic exclusivity and blaming a community for the ills of a system to tear apart Manipur, if that weren't the

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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The largest democracy with the 4th most powerful military in the world has hitherto allowed a year long "civil war" to go on in Manipur which is home to barely 3 million people (0.24 percent) out of the 1.4 billion population of this "civilizational" South Asian state! It's

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There are different communities with separate aspirations in Manipur. Some of these aspirations entail or call for splitting of the state into different political entities. However, unfortunately, in their pursuits, none, except the present lots, ever tried to change the name of

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Beyond the destructive assault on the dignity and well being of Manipur by the communal and sectarian forces, and the self seeking usurpers and bootlickers, sooner or later, Sanaleipak shall overcome and emerge with new vigour and character!

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@Bimol_Akoijam

11 months

What has be presented as academic work must be responded with intellectual and academic means rather than legal instrumentality.

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@Bimol_Akoijam

9 months

How many cases related to the unprecedented violence have been handed over to the central agencies like the CBI and how many suspects have been arrested by these agencies? Is the case of two Meitei teens the only instance of such cases? #Manipur #ManipurViolence

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@Bimol_Akoijam

6 months

Check out this video/report below Right from day one, the 3rd of May, these Meiteis have suffered, their houses were burnt down that early evening in Churachandpur and Moreh, which was before violence erupted in Imphal late in the evening of that day... Right from the initial

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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When I say, 'Say No to communal harangue!' and 'Say No to communal and sectarian politics!', what makes some get agitated as if they are the only communal and sectarian people in Manipur or elsewhere? Like the proverbial #Huranba_nakokta_napi_pak -a? #Chor_ki_dadi_mein_tinka ?

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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When I say 'leave your communal harangue', why would some behave as if she/he and her/his community only has the sole prerogative over communal harangue? #ManipurFightsBack #Manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurCrisis

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There is a crucial element that the Manipur crisis reveals, which many seem to have missed: An unprecedented subversion of the federal structure in this country. The confusion around Article 355 speaks of this subversion. A question that many have not asked is this: who is in

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Absolutely! The issue of real or perceived lack of development or differential development, or other grievances etc - all can be addressed and must be addressed in an objective manner without communalising the issue. Rather than objectively looking at the institutional,

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@Bimol_Akoijam Responsible individuals need to analyze the reasons behind ethnic tensions among different groups. We must consider whether the establishment of the state was based on political and social justice principles, fair distribution of power, or political expediency, exploitation, and

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@Bimol_Akoijam

7 months

Mark my words; you shall pay the price, much before the Day of Your ' Final Judgement Day'!

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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It's barely two months away to complete a year of the unprecedented mayhem. It's crucial to courageously confront the reality...lots of disinformation have happened just as grievances have also been expressed amidst the bloodshed and unwillingness of the state to carry out its

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Manipur se 'Chingleipak' ni hairubagi tourak-liba nahasingse khanlubada nungsi... khusaodo! Pabung Paharigi eshei, 'Chingleipakki Ima Manipur' A piece I wrote some 17 years back

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Beyond the troll, and ad hominem retorts, that hitherto followed my posts here are symptomatic of a culture, or politics, that has created and sustained the violence and ill-will in Manipur today. However, I am sure, and in fact I am aware of the fact that, there are people from

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Need to defend (the idea and reality of) Manipur, not merely for its past but more so for its promises that enable us to move beyond the familiar exclusivist (communal and 'ethnic') identify politics that have bogged down the people not only in the state but also the region

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@Bimol_Akoijam

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Insofar as the Indian State is a responsible state, not a rogue one, there must be some rationale(s), objective(s), for it to allow the kind of violence and chaos to continue in Manipur! #Manipur #ManipurFightsBack #ManipurUpdates #ManipurVoilence

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