This serious allegation and appeal by the Indian Army has once against brought to the fore the role of women activist groups in Manipur, commonly known as Meira Paibi.

Such unwarranted interference is detrimental to the timely response by Security Forces during critical situations to save lives and property. Women activists in #Manipur are deliberately blocking routes and interfering in Operations of Security Forces. The helplessness of the armed forces was evident as through the tweet, Indian Army appealed to the people of Manipur to help them to restore peace in the state, engulfed in ethnic clashes since May 3. The video also claims that entry and exit routes to Assam Rifles base was dug up to cause delay in their movements. The women were allegedly “helping rioters flee” in this incident. The embedded video titled “Demystifying myth of peaceful blockade led by women in Manipur” shows large group of women surrounding an army convoy in Itham on June 24. Such unwarranted interference is detrimental to the timely response by Security Forces during critical situations to save lives and property,” read the tweet. “Women activists in Manipur are deliberately blocking routes and interfering in Operations of Security Forces. Two days later, Spear Corps posted another tweet, with embedded videos showing how women groups in Manipur were “deliberately interfering” in their operations. Specific search after laying cordon was… /7ZH9Jp8nOI

The army said that the convoy released the militants because it did not want to risk the lives of civilians and decided to end the standoff, which lasted for nearly a day. One of the 12 militants, self-styled Lt Col Moirangthem Tamba alias Uttam, was the mastermind of the ambush. On June 24, the Indian Army’s Dimapur-based 3 Corps, known as Spear Corps, released a video saying that some 1,200 women blocked their convoy in Itham village of Manipur’s Imphal East district and forced them to release a dozen hardcore militants of Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), a banned militant group which was behind the 2015 ambush of a convoy of the Army’s Dogra Regiment in Manipur, killing 20 soldiers.

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