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Migrants to North East fear militant threat | The migration of people in search of better opportunities has been an age old tradition. But in Manipur migrants
fear being targeted by militants. Recently, three migrants were killed in separate
incidents in the state. Migrant labourers say they don't feel safe in Manipur.
On December 16, assailants shot dead Gajinder Ram and Subhas Yadav in their
house
in Chingmeirong Kabui Khul on the outskirts of Imphal while they were asleep.
Gajinder was a tourist who had come to see his brother. Subhas Yadav was a
manual
laborer working in an ice candy factory. On December 15, Deepak Kumar Sahu a
hawker,
was killed by militants near Pangei. Top police officers met to assess the situation
arising out of the violence. "As a preventive measure, the state police has arranged
a temporary refugee camp at Dharamsala. From time to time, we have to pick them
up from several outskirt locations and kept over there. As they have come for
earning, they cannot remain idle at that place. So they returned to their respective
place and are coming out for earning for their livelihood," Mohammad Shahid Khan
Sub Inspector, Lamphel Police Station. The ruthless killing of migrants provoked
anger among the people in Manipur. Under the aegis of Chingmeirong Women
Society,
locals protested the killings. Protestors criticized the killers and demanded
justice. "Even we can go outside the state, like in Delhi and Mumbai to earn our
livelihoods. But such incidents are making us wary to even go outside the state,"
said Birkumar a local "We are against killings of any person. Killing of petty
laborers who are earning meager salaries won't bring any solution. We condemn
it," he added. Since February, 28 migrant workers have been killed in Manipur.
Miscreants claim that migrant workers are a burden to the state's economy, but
ignore the fact that many students and people from Manipur study and work in other
parts of the country. |
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