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Editorial

The Drug Route - Business as usual

IFP Bureau29 Aug 2023

Communal riots or not, the drug business and supply goes on uninterrupted in violence-hit Manipur. One wonders, where do they find the time and audacity to smuggle drugs in the midst of all the mayhem?

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Editorial

Giving safe passage

IFP Bureau20 Apr 2023

IFP Editorial: 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.

Editorial

That thing called war

IFP Bureau11 May 2022

IFP Editorial: The general impression is that the state is targeting the victims and simplistic poppy farmers while protecting the interests of the major players.

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Editorial

The money trail

IFP Bureau26 Sept 2021

IFP Editorial: The shift of poppy cultivation in areas of Manipur could have been a direct fallout of the diminishing trend in the Golden Triangle and Myanmar. Yet, if all of the hills are under poppy cultivation, it would only be a tiny fraction of the global drug production.

Editorial

Couriers are not important; the big fish always gets away

IFP Bureau29 Aug 2021

IFP Editorial: Merely rewarding policemen for seizure of drugs and couriers is not enough. The main focus should be on investigation of the drugs which found its way into the hands of the law-enforcing agencies and in finding out who are the powerful patrons or drug-lords behind this lucrative business.

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