Imphal/New Delhi:
A armored vehicle of central security forces came under heavy attacks on the first day of the Center’s order by the protesters of the Cookie tribes in Manipur, which ensures free movement of people in the crisis-state state, which is under the President’s rule.
A video taken from inside the vehicle, which has now gone viral, showed that the stones and other projectiles thrown by the protesters hit the windshield of the armored vehicle, while Jawans warned the protesters to fall back or face action.
Security sources said that among a barrage of Project, which became a hit in the mine-resistant vehicle and there were sharp cracks inside the cabin, managed to push through the Jawans road, said security sources.
In a video of about two minutes, the armored vehicle was pledged through an empty passenger bus and a van kept by protesters to block the road, ran over a mound of stones, stopping a small vehicle, and once the tires that were burnt to stop three different lines of the metal barrel one after the other.
At the end of the vehicle, more security personnel were waiting on the other side of the blockade. Sources said no one was injured during the crossing.
A similar security vehicle running as an escort came from the opposite direction, which is ready to enter the area that had just passed the armored vehicle.
On March 8, security forces resumed civil buses by security forces in the districts in Manipur amid protests by the cookie tribes, which do not want any free movement until a separate administration demanded from the state.
A guard was killed by bullet injuries in Kangpokpi district. Police said sixteen protesters and 27 security personnel were injured and two vehicles of security forces were set on fire.
Police said some elements fired on security forces among the protesters, after which the Jawans retaliated, the police said.
Police said in a statement on 8 March, “The security forces tried to control the uncontrolled and violent mob and showed tremendous restraint and used minimum force to control and counter anti -social elements including firing by armed miscreants among protesters.”
Officials said that buses going near Charachandpur in southern Manipur arrived without any incident and no road blockade. The buses crossed the Metei-head Bishanupur and reached Kangwai in Charachandpur, about 55 km from Imphal, with essential things like fuel and cooking gas.
The Center had announced that there should be no road barrier in Manipur from 8 March.
The valley-headed Metei community and more than a dozen different tribes are collectively known as cookies, prominent in some hilly areas of Manipur, fighting on many issues such as land rights and political representation since May 2023. More than 250 have died in violence and around 50,000 have been displaced internally.
Cookie leaders, about two dozen terrorist groups that have signed the suspension (SOO) agreement of operations, and their frontal civic organizations have demanded a separate administration before allowing the Center to move independently to Manipur.
Meitei organizations have questioned why thousands of internal displaced people living in relief camps are threatened to return home by cookie tribes, and why people can’t travel safely on national highways, when dialogue can run together.
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