Villager in Manipur ‘shot dead by Assam Rifles Major’
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The victim was a daily wage labourer and father of two children
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The victim was a daily wage labourer and father of two children
An Assam Rifles Major allegedly shot dead a villager in Kangpokpi district in Manipur on Friday night, police reports said on Saturday.
The victim has been identified as Mangboilal Lhouvum (30) of Chalwa village under the Kangpokpi police station. He was a daily wage labourer and father of two children.
Agitated villagers said Major Aloke of the 44 Assam Rifles post, accompanied by four armed personnel, raided the house of Mr. Lhouvum on Friday around 9 p.m. All of them were in plainclothes. Without giving any reason, they whisked away the villager.
One person was shot dead allegedly by a staff of the Assam Rifles in a village in Manipur's Kangpokpi, triggering a mob to enter a camp of the paramilitary force in the area, police said on Saturday.
The incident occurred in Kangpokpi district on Friday night after the paramilitary force shot dead a civilian.
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The deceased was identified as Mangboilal Lhouvum, a daily wage labourer from Chalwa village in the district. ( Photo | Special arrangement)
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GUWAHATI: A mob of dozens of villagers torched two Assam Rifles vehicles and four weapons in Manipur after the paramilitary force had shot dead a civilian.
The incident occurred in Kangpokpi district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Mangboilal Lhouvum, a daily wage labourer from Chalwa village in the district. He was seriously injured and succumbed to his injuries later.
On an incremental basis, friction between Manipur’s many ethnic communities is taking a new visage. At the moment, this is centred around the contentious exclusive rather than inclusive administrative demarcation between its hill and valley. This is especially so in the foothills, which during the British days had come to be designated as the Sadar Hills, affiliating its administration to neither the hills or the valley fully. Indeed, much of Manipur’s land administration mechanism is a legacy from the British days.
While similar frictions over the idea of land and land ownership among indigenous communities is common throughout the Northeast, arguably none is more complex and sensitive than in Manipur. The state’s peculiar geography and history predicate this. It is a small state of 22,327 sq. km, mostly mountains except for a central fertile valley of 1,864 sq. km.