Manipur violence: Violence for unlawful trade and benefits

 The recent violence in Manipur has its roots in an over-a-decade-old demand by the Meitei Hindus for a Scheduled Tribe category. Manipur High Court also supported this demand and directed the Union Tribal Ministry to give ST tag to the Meitei community. Before the merger with the Indian Union, the community enjoyed the ST tag.

Against this order, on May 3, Kuki tribals organised a very aggressive solidarity march in which provocative slogans were raised. Meitei also organised counter-protests. These resulted in clashes and violence. Kuki used women and children as shields to stop or chase away the security forces.

Through the newspaper reports and the people who have also served in Manipur and know the ground realities quite well, one can safely say about the conflict in Manipur is not between Manipuri Hindus and Christians.  it is an attempt made by the powerful foreign-aided Christian Church, Christian missionaries and anti-Hindu toolkit and ecosystem to defame the Hindus and the nation and send a false message to the West that Christians are being massacred in cold blood. This propaganda is only one of the tactics employed by them on the path towards their end.

According to General M M Naravane (retd), involvement of  foreign agencies "cannot be ruled out." China and Myanmar have been fueling the violence and the insurgencies in the northeast. illegal intruders from Bangladesh and Rohingya Muslims are also responsible for the escalation of violence.

The Church and the Christian missionaries have been systematically converting tribals in large numbers by luring them in a variety of ways -supplying liquor and money, building houses and providing education to their children in Christian convent schools. A recent alarming development is the involvement of the Church in arming the Kukis with smuggled Chinese arms, in their fight with Meitei Hindus in the light of the HC order on granting ST status to Hindu Meiteis. Christian Kukis want to grab all the benefits and reservation.

Drug trafficking, smuggling of narcotics and poppy cultivation have been major problems in the northeast states. Opposition leaders wanted an issue to dilute the bad name after the Bengal violence, foreign countries and the press want to bludgeon Brand Modi, NGOs and other bodies that have had either the authorization to get foreign funds/donations or their registration cancelled or left-oriented academics and 'Khan Market Gang' of media wanted a space. So tragic violence of Manipur soothed their deprived ambition. 

The successive Central Governments are to be blamed for not doing anything for the sizeable Hindu population in Manipur. They always kept on appeasing the Christian missionaries and foreign-funded NGOs. The attitude of the Central government and its officers posted there have alienated both Hindus and Christians in Manipur.

The Hindi-speaking officers posted from North India behave as if they are the real masters/Indians and that Manipuri speakers are less Indian and are destined to serve the real masters/ Indians. It is this condescending attitude of North Indian politicians and bureaucrats which created resentment among Hindus in the North East. They are also doing the same in the Hindu majority states of South India and also in the Hindu kingdom of Nepal.

This resentment has made conversions easier for the missionaries. Due to this attitude, the missionaries have been successful in turning Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya into Christian-majority states. The Christian population in Manipur has grown to 42%. Conversions on a large scale are taking place among tribes in Arunachal and in the Bodo-dominated areas of Assam too.

The present violence in Manipur is fuelled by the Christian clergies to succeed in their first step - carving a Christian majority state out of Manipur by including the hilly areas of the state. The divisive and tactful strategy of the Christian missionaries is to wait and watch till the whole of the North East turns into a Christian-majority region. They will then, with the help of their Western counterparts, play the victim card like the Muslims in various international forums and demand the creation of a separate country for Christians encompassing the entire North East. The riots in Manipur are only the beginning of a well-planned/long-term strategy. They are following the calculated method that the Muslims and Jinnah adopted in 1947.

The cultivation of narcotics is a big source of income for these Kuki Christians. They are very well supported by the Church and the Christian missionaries in this narcotics cultivation. Narcotics cultivation and trade, massive intrusion of Kuki Christians from Myanmar, the tension of native Meiteis about the encroachments on their land and other resources by the Kukis, mass conversion by the Christian missionaries toolkit and ecosystem and other intruders are major issues for the unrest and violence.