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The widespread poppy plantations and the home-grown drug manufacturing units in Manipur did not develop overnight. There must certainly be patrons or powerful people behind the widespread poppy plantation just as there would be for the heavy traffic of drugs in recent times.
Instead of joining the chorus of ‘Kuki-Zo victimhood’ started by the drug cartel bosses and their supporters, Mizoram should also join the campaign against drug smuggling and its exponents.
“The conflict in Manipur has affected each and everyone, but it will end one day. While the War on drugs has just begun."
Communal riots or not, the drug business and supply must go on uninterrupted. That seems to be the dictum.
Vigilantism or mob action is a fallout of deficiency in law enforcement and justice delivery coupled with general lack of trust in law enforcement agencies particularly the police.
Manipur seems to have won the debate on the need for engaging the drug cartels head-on and stop the drug invasion midway before it spread to other territories. Yet, there is a danger of ‘Kuki victimhood’ springing up in other states also, as the unrelenting anti-drug campaign goes on.
‘Liquor-Free Kangpokpi Town’ campaign kicked-off with a huge seizure of liquor on Sunday morning.
Former Manipur CM O Ibobi emphasised that people anticipated a swift resolution to the violence for a return to normalcy.
Nothing is transparent in the narcotics business as made out to be and it is about who is controlling or managing the perceptions.
Manipur seems to have won the debate on the need for engaging the drug cartels head-on and stopping the drug invasion midway before it spread to other territories.
The prevailing violence in Manipur is a war deliberately waged against the government’s war on drugs and move to conserve forest lands, SSUM alleged.
Eviction of illegal encroachment and settlement in reserve and protected forest land were protested while adding a communal tinge, even though the eviction drive was taken up irrespective of community across Manipur.
The idea of destroying poppy fields before harvest is to cut the revenue stream of the cartel bosses and to discourage any future effort to resort to poppy plantation again in the hills of Manipur.
A public meeting to be held at Pishum Hao ground on October 7 to tilt the demand on the state government to materialise the defence minister’s assurance to destroy poppy plantation using the IAF.
Drug cartels based in Manipur have become major suppliers of brown sugar, heroin and other synthetic drugs across the country.
Now after a lull of nearly three months, the drug route in Manipur is open once again and business as usual.
The drug route has somehow shifted to Mizoram state which also borders Myanmar and there is a sudden spurt in drug seizures there by state police and central agencies.
Manipur crisis is a premeditated ploy to dethrone the state chief minister by drug lords affected by the ‘War on Drugs’ campaign, says SSUM.
There are deeper reasons behind the present Manipur conflict and widespread poppy cultivation in the hills is one of them.
IFP Editorial: There are lot of rotten apples among the police which not only brings bad reputation to the force but defeats the very purpose of War on Drugs campaign.
