In this video, Lt Gen P R Shankar (R) discusses the fall out of Manipur on the nation and methods to pull back the situation. 
Join this channel to get access to perks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hqg81N9k0R6xna0aNGoPw/join
THIS VIDEO IS AVAILABLE IN PODCAST FORM @ https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC_hqg81N9k0R6xna0aNGoPw

GUNNERS SHOT IS A CHANNEL FOR DEFENCE AND STRATEGIC AFFAIRS. 

THE PLAYLIST : 'A PEEK INTO EVERYDAY CHINA' IS A CHINA RESOURCE FOR REFERENCE. 

All  other videos are available on Gunners Shot YouTube Channel. There are SIX  playlists on the channel to enhance your viewing experience.

All articles are available @ www.gunnersshot.com
You can follow me on twitter @palepurshankar  or @gunners_shot1
You can also join my telegram group @ https://t.me/gunnersshot

YOU MAY LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL AS ALSO FOR ARTICLES IN THE WEBSITE OF GUNNERS SHOT
Disclaimer : Views expressed on this channel by this who appear on it are their personal opinions and can not be attributed to GUNNERS SHOT

Good evening and welcome to Gunner's Shot.

Namaskaram, Pranam, Vanakam, Jai Hind, and Sat Sri Akal.

Today we'll talk about Manipur and the fallout which is happening there.

But before that, just to help the potter, GanaShorts is a bilingual channel.

I speak in English sometimes, and sometimes in Hindi.

And this is because people who watch are either from the North or South.

Some people from the South can't understand Hindi, some people from the North can't understand English.

So, I try to speak in both languages and get a balance, 50-50.

Some people say that if you try both, you will fail in both.

I believe that language is just a medium to explain to you what's happening.

So, that's why I'm sure you'll understand what we're talking.

As far as our intent is good, as far as our ideas are good, as far as they're all working, looking to Do good for the nation.

I'm glad that A lot of you have joined as members.

And I'd also request most of you to, I don't tell this normally, to press that bell icon and subscribe to the channel, if you like this channel, of course.

With this, I'd like to talk about Manipur a little.

The situation, as we know, is getting worse.

I had spoken to you, the situation has worsened since then.

A video has been released where a mob has taken off women's clothes and misbehaved with them.

And after that, many people are saying everything.

Mera sawal ye hai ki North East is a place where women are respected.

Aur ladies ka bahut bol bala hai North East.

There is the Nagas Mothers Union, there is the Meera Pebbies, there is the Northeast Ladies Association, there are different districts.

And what's more, this has happened in May, first week.

And it has not come out to the, in the, you know, general public.

Details are coming out, ki uska FIR late darj kiya gaya.

Now the issues become political that before monsoon session of the parliament why is it commode, are there political motives.

Like there's a major, major problem in Panipur.

Uska koi solution, I've not seen in the past 1 week in any news channel.

2 days back, General Shaukin Chauhan spoke to Barkha Dutt on the Mojo channel.

And he has a good experience of the North East.

Watch that channel and watch that interview.

He is my friend and you have seen that we talk together on this channel.

So that is the base from which I want to start.

Now what is the situation in, from then to now, what is the situation in Manipur?

Abhi kabar aaya hai ki cookies aur methis kahi jagon mein moorchak ho gaya.

They have dug trenches, they have made defences, they are firing at each other.

And some clips are coming out where they are firing with automatic weapons.

And actually I am not surprised but it is very strange that the Assam rifles and the army, wherever if it is deployed, I don't know the exact thing but this is what news I have got, is trying to maintain a buffer zone.

Amare desh ke andar, do groups ke andar, buffer zone army has to maintain?

Army has been called in support of civil authority.

In support of civil authority, there has to be a magistrate.

If the magistrate is not there, army can't act.

I will be sitting in Chennai and I won't even know what the account of the case is.

But because I acted under the enablement of the ASPA, Armed Forces Special Power Act, the government will take care of it.

But if that is not there, the army, no 1 will give legal cover to the army.

If there is no legal cover and if there is no enablement of the army, army contact, Assam Rifles contact, wo isi liye yeh buffer zone kar rahe hain, yeh choo choo kar rahe hain, it is, This is probably the worst way to deal with the army or use the army.

And army Of course, it has established camps, everything, but it has helped the people.

Army has to be repositioned by the civil authority.

So the state, the government of India and the government of Manipur are using the army sub-optimally.

Ye hi January se pehle jab Aswad nikala gaya tha and Manipur was no more a disturbed area as per the Disturbed Area Act.

Before that, all this couldn't have happened.

The moment that has gone out, political issues have come forth and this has happened.

What is the root cause of this root problem?

Someone wrote on Twitter that we don't have a problem with Hindu-Christian, we have a problem with our rights.

And people were saying that this is a Hindu-Christian problem.

We are making this up, we are imagining it, and the people don't know anything about it.

So, now that is very clear, it is no more.

So it is a problem between the 2 tribes at the, you know, face of it.

It is very clear today that the whole thing is political from top to bottom which I said in the first thing.

I see someone has already said it is revenge politics.

It is politics aspirations or political aspirations.

They feel that look the other chap, I am being deprived by the other person.

It is cookies feel deprived by metis, metis feel deprived by cookies.

So it now becomes some kind of revenge politics or whatever it is.

But most importantly, the administration is poor.

Whether it is the police or the the adhikari, they are all from the same area.

They are either cookies or methis or nagas.

And there are, abhi kya hai ki bada clear hai ki yeh Manipur police ke hatyaar are what jo istamal kar rahe hain, chahe wo metis hai ya cookies ho.

And in the last 3 months, the situation has gone from bad to worse.

1 thing is very clear, if you do a complete investigation, that local leadership at district, village and state level has failed.

For the past 3 months, we are only reinforcing this failure by keeping these leaders at the top.

So something about the leadership has to change.

Unless the leadership doesn't change, we'll not get anything.

Now, outside Manipur, different political parties are saying different things.

Because this issue started in the monsoon session, so it's become a political issue.

And this is what important officials are saying.

If you equate normal politics, I am sure, I don't decry that there have been rapes in Rajasthan or West Bengal.

Now, why did no 1 do anything at that time?

If you add this to Manipur, then there will be more problems.

What I told in the last video, I will repeat it a little bit.

Now, the latest thing is, I read a report that So some people in Mizoram have told Mehtis living in Mizoram to go back to their home state for their own safety.

So it has gone from Manipur to Mizoram also.

So if it goes to Mizoram, then there will be problems there also.

If it goes to Mizoram, then it will go to Nagaland and Nagaland area.

And we have to realize the People in this area live on both sides of the border of Myanmar also.

If it spreads in all the states, what will be the result?

And I see big ministers, big MPs, everyone is saying something.

This is the time to be quiet, to be calm.

This is not the time to abuse each other, to point fingers at each other.

This is the time to have cool heads and cool people down.

Ok, now let us, let me, you know, look at the other major problem which could have triggered this.

In 1 of my videos earlier, I'd said, in Afghanistan, the Taliban have wiped out the drug problem.

Or rather, completely for the past 1 year, there's a reduction of opium production in Afghanistan.

The right 1, there is no opium cultivation.

And then we are talking of this golden triangle.

As it is, this Golden Triangle was existing.

There were free flow of arms and drugs in this Golden Triangle.

It comprises of Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and southern part of China.

Now, I won't say Cookieland, Manipur, some parts have come in.

Kyunki wahan drugs nahi hai, kyunki wahan drugs nahi hai, toh yaha aage, yaha badha rahe, toh 1 of the issues when cookies are growing drugs in the hills, the metis are transporting it.

But suddenly is this a case for drugs thing?

Is it because the politicians have got drugs?

Then of course there's the traditional thing, a land problem for metis, population problem of metis, illegal immigration, ye to hogai, if Myanmar is under problem, there will be illegal immigration here.

And this problem has been there for the past 1 year.

If the Illegal migration from Myanmar is the issue.

Why has this problem not gone to Nagaland?

Or why is this problem not going to Mizoram?

Most of us do not know, including myself, what is happening on ground, the small, small, small problems.

North-east mein aap jayega yeh problem, koi bhi problem North-east ke andar yeh teen star, teen chaar star mein hota hai.

1 village level mein hota hai, district level mein hota hai, state level mein hota hai, outside state level mein hota level, state level, outside state level, tribal level, you have to handle this at that level.

Then of course there is this China factor.

If this is happening, do you think China will keep quiet?

You continue this more, It's a golden opportunity for them.

Everyone is saying that it's not happening.

I also believe that the China factor has not come in.

But my guess is that if there is 1 more month, they'll fund both sides.

Either throw the money and everything will happen.

We are, whatever we have done in this so far, we are compounding problems.

There is a China factor, there is a Myanmar instability factor, there is drugs, there is ammunition, arms.

And there is internal politics of Manipur, there is regional politics of North East and there's a national politics involved.

If you see, I mean, I don't know why our nation cannot rise up to the occasion and say, stop this nonsense.

Who is that statesman who will come and say, stop this.

There are, I mean, there is no doubt that we have to do something different.

What he bought from cutting it, it goes to a new book or in only the cutting it.

So for more problem, if you say maybe it's a red fold, maybe it will not accept if you say cookies are at fault, cookies will not accept.

1 thing for sure, your leadership has failed.

You continue with this leadership, you are reinforcing failure.

Second, so far what I have said, you need to reinforce statesmanship.

You need statesmanship to come up in this area.

Okay, let's look at some fundamental issues.

1 danger, which is going to happen now, and I think it will happen someday, if it spreads a little, then the lines of communication in Manipur will be choked.

If someone breaks those lines, then this problem will become even bigger.

You see, Manipur has got 2 lines, 2 major roads coming in.

1 from Dimapur, comes through Nagaland and second through Silchar.

If both of these get blocked, the Silchar road is a bit narrow, the main road is from Dimapur.

If this is a national highway, that is a national highway, this is a state highway.

If both of them are closed, then your work is done.

It can happen anytime because metis, cookies, and nagas live interspersed.

If you threaten a truck driver, he will stop.

Then you have to do convoy protection, all that.

We should realize and most of us should remember that we are on the edge of a danger.

Agar ye realization nahi hua to iska koi samadhan nahi hai.

The first thing is you have to regain control of that area and get peace into that area.

If you have to get peace into that area, you have to empower and enable the army to get peace into this area.

Unless you do that, the army cannot do anything.

You saw, when the army was not empowered and they had put an ambush, 1 of the charred militants got geared, yeah, the ladies are game.

All the road to the idea, I'll get video I showed in the last thing.

Because the army was not empowered to do anything.

So first and foremost, the army has to be empowered.

Now, it has not to be empowered only by AASFA, that's 1 part of the story.

So you have to make it into a disturbed area again and in any case, Manipur today is a disturbed area.

Declare it as a disturbed area and put army back, support it with police, mix the CRPF with local police and stiffen the local police because without the local police you cannot function, and regain law and order.

And the moment you put deploy army in that manner, anyone with the weapon, you fire at him and finish him off.

It was very strict because the situation at that time was bad.

In fact, PLA had declared part of Jiribam and that area of this thing.

the road that comes from Silchar, where the border between Assam and Manipur is there.

Jiribam and beyond, the PLA had declared it as a liberated area.

Waha toh hamara liye hukum tha ki bhai aapke paas hatyaar hai, kisi ke hatyaar dekha aur kisi ke paas uniform hai usko uda do.

If you don't do that, you can't have a buffer zone between 2 opposing forces.

You are making trenches, you are doing this and that, first wipe out everyone.

Along with that, get people to talk to each other.

Purae jo inke Naga Mother's Association aur Ladies Association hai jitne inke hai unko bulaiye.

Sabse pehle unko batayiye, stop this peace.

Gather the villages and the old people in every district.

I'm not talking of who is right and who is not.

I believe that both are right and both are wrong.

Or I'm going to put up in the up on a video.

About 10 years back, 11 years back, Manipur was in a bad shape.

With great difficulty, we brought it back to balance.

Ek saal ke andar army ko nikal diya aur yeh jagah aise ban gaya.

Obviously, the administration is a thing.

People in Manipur, the policemen, the Indian Reserve Battalions, and the local government officials, they'll take sides of their tribes, their ethnicity.

And use local police as the third tier to give you intelligence.

If you appeal to people, people will come.

If they don't have confidence that they can come back and give, that it will

If you treat 1 particular community today there at fault, you are in trouble because all communities at fault with which I have explained to you.

But the government of India has to step in now.

Government of India has to step in in a big way.

And then the home minister has to step in.

Prime Minister, if needed, has to step in.

All the way to about it is in international media.

We should be ashamed of what has happened in Manipur.

Everyone in the world is talking about it.

Anyway, so we will come back to this thing of political options.

If there is a fourth option, let it come up.

There is also a case to form a national committee for reconciliation or bringing order, whatever you call it.

Achche achche logon ko lehao jo jaante hain usse ilake ko.

Who are good people, who have a good reputation, take them there.

At times it might be good to take absolutely someone who doesn't know anything to go there and start talking to people with his honesty and integrity.

If that happens, the North East people will respond.

Start anti-militancy operations without a second thought on all the militant organizations whether they are of metis, cookies or nagas.

First and foremost, you need to start an anti-drug drive.

I mean, this has to start at a fairly high level.

Because the problem, which is bigger than before, after the closure in Afghanistan.

If you sort out this problem, the China factor will also start to shut down.

If you stop Poppy cultivation, then there should be an alternative for all those people who are doing Poppy cultivation to do something else.

Otherwise, tomorrow they will not have food to eat.

Immediately if you do stop poppy cultivation, that's the thing.

Any case poppy cultivation abhi toh hone ra.

Poppy cultivation will start by October, November and you will get poppies beginning of the year only.

See all GUNNERS SHOT transcripts on Youtube

MANIPUR FALLOUT