Concerns around a spurt in illegal migration from Myanmar and flourishing drug trade across the porous border with India has fanned ethnic conflict in the state. Read more at straitstimes.com.
has cast a long shadow on the neighbouring north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, with concerns around a spurt in illegal migration from the country and the flourishing drug trade across the porous border fanning ethnic conflict in the state.
Responding to the concern of illegal migrants, authorities in Manipur began collecting biometric details of Myanmar nationals in the state on July 29 to ascertain their numbers and keep tabs on them. He said around 2,500 Myanmar nationals had already been identified in the state in a prior exercise this year, adding that the number of such migrants in Manipur was “uncertain”. Civil society organisations estimate this figure could be anywhere between 15,000 and 20,000.
While maintaining that refugees in the state who have fled persecution in Myanmar need to be offered temporary identity documents and humanitarian support, Mr Babloo Loitongbam, director of Human Rights Alert, an organisation based in Manipur’s capital Imphal, added that concerns around continued illegal migration across the unregulated border and associated demographic change had to be addressed sincerely as well.
Mr Kipgen said he would “blame the state government for encouraging poppy cultivation in the hills” because of its failure to provide necessary support and infrastructure to make non-poppy farming lucrative for locals. A lack of food processing centres, transport subsidies and cold storage facilities, something Kukis have long demanded, have made regular vegetable farming unviable, he added.
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