Meanwhile another vehicle has been torched, and
a security personnel shot at and wounded.
The person in question that had been attacked?
None other than an IPS officer, an IG (Inspector
General of Police) to boot.
There has been much hue and cry since, with the State
Police denouncing the act and several newspapers running it across their front
pages.
This?
This is 76 days hence.
Just a reminder that 75 days ago, the Addl Director
General’s house had been completely razed to the ground.
Also, 75 days ago the state’s (your highest-ranking
police officer in the state) DGP’s house pelted and pounded.
What its present condition might be now though
is anybody’s guess.
So, what exactly is causing this blind, visceral
rage?
What is being revealed though through these
acts, is the narrative of fear and anger compounded by the incessant one sided chronicle
of ‘armed militants’, ‘narco-terrorists’, ‘illegal immigrants’ and so on..
Starkly evident in the way these large sections
of mobs believe in it, blindly, irrationally, with no fear of retribution for
the wrongs that they have committed with impunity and continue to commit almost
every day.
Two days ago, a standoff took place between the
meira paibis and the armed forces at Nambol bazar with the bone of contention being
that the army was ferrying four Kuki women towards Churachandpur. To the extent
that this posse of women forced the army convoy to stop and turn back. In the
process tear gas shells were deployed to quell the rapidly restless mob.
Between the span of the last ten days, two unarmed elderly ladies have been shot dead in the Imphal valley.
Earlier a young boy defending his village had
his head cut off, Taliban style and placed in a pole outside his home.
Reports of women being paraded naked and then gang raped in full view of these rabid mobs.
The level of misinformation triggering these incidents,
resulting in such macabre acts of violence, fuelled in part by the egging on of
these self-styled "guardians of civil society" begs the question,
why?
Why has the level of acrimony and hate
compounded to such a degree of immoral turpitude, that one continues to perpetrate
such horrors?
Why, despite the presence of multiple armed
forces, are these women, these frenzied mobs, continued to be given a free hand
to loot, pillage and destroy?
Why, again, despite the presence of multiple armed
forces, are attacks being carried out along the peripheral towns and villages?
Why has there been no assurance given of safety and
security?
Why has there been no calls for unity? Or peace? Or restoration?
Why indeed.
In the initial days post May 3rd, permission
seems to have been granted for general mayhem and absolute debauchery,
justified as it may have been from the false reports coming in of violence in
the hills.
Now, 75 days hence, what excuse or reason is there for
the continued carnage?
After more than two and a half months of looting,
killing and pillaging in the valley and the border towns and villages, what else
is left?
A month earlier I had written this piece: https://judithnv25.blogspot.com/2023/06/let-there-be-carnage.html
In looking for an ‘enemy’, an ‘evil’ wherein which
this hate is being poured out, perhaps one has forgotten that the actual enemy
is maybe just the one within.
To those who refuse to give in, or reason, or who still blindly believe that this is the only way, let me remind them that history says otherwise.
That there are no winners in this.
None whatsoever.
Zip.
Zero.
Nada.
And for my fellow brethren in the hills, in
Manipur and elsewhere, those that have aligned themselves with the current
political dispensation, I just have one thing to say to you.
I hope you have been watching carefully.
And listening.
To the deafening, ominous silence.
A tragedy extremely painful and extremely destructive... Praying for a peaceful solution.
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