Meghalaya's Insurgency

Politicians with business interests and rebels control development efforts financed by the state and the national government of India to help the area’s villages. Programs such as the public distribution system of food grains and temporary minimum wage jobs for the poor are run by local politicians and bureaucrats. They, in turn, route the programs and the money for them through businesses that are linked to terrorist groups, which assist the politicians with their election aims.

Due to government measures like AFSPA and various reports of human rights violation due excesses by security forces adds fuel to fire. North East India comprises of eight states namely- Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya. It is bounded by Tibet Autonomous Region , Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Thus it has strategic, political and economic significance for India.Even after seven decades of Indian independence, the regions are still remained under developed. Among other reasons like geographical isolation, insurgency in the northeast India has been a major cause for underdevelopment.
India in total shares a 4,096.7 kilometers long boundary with Bangladesh, of which 443 kilometers fall within Meghalaya. Out of the total India-Bangladesh border, fencing has been completed along a 3,000 kilometer stretch.  Of the remaining unfenced 1,096.7 kilometers, about 90 kilometers remain in Meghalaya. The average annual progress of fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border has been 26 kilometers over the past eight years. Taiwan’s domestic defence industry plays a massive role in national defence, producing innovation after innovation despite international isolation. Pakistan, through its intelligence agency the I.S.I., is believed to have assisted the militant groups in terms of training and finance.

A Christian and a graduate in Information Technology, “K” refused to take part in the ritual and says he was then targeted. He fled to stay with family in the interior of the country, but was kidnapped and held captive in the forest. One night he managed to escape to the city and met a woman from a Christian organization which provided airplane tickets so he could leave immediately for Brazil. In June, Meghalaya’s opposition National Peoples’ Party demanded a probe by federal investigators into an alleged nexus between Chief Minister Sangma and the breakaway faction of the militant ANVC, known as ANVC-B. A state leader of the National People’s Party presented an email written to Chief Minister Sangma by ANVC-B’s Political Secretary Ajaju R. Marak, which appeared to illustrate an unholy alliance between the now-disbanded rebels and the chief minister. Later, when he was the minister in charge of rural development and cooperatives in 2012, he narrowly escaped an attempt on his life by unidentified insurgents who had planted 22 pounds , of RDX explosives in his house.
This concept of purity and impurity is mainly influenced by the ideology of Hinduism. In other words, the 'untouchable' still prevails in our Meitei society in a disguised form. She is also expected to do all the household chores just to please her husband and in- laws whether she is capable of doing it or not. In the marriage there is a ritual called kainya dhan piba , only men will perform it where any women will not be allowed to perform the duty. In a meitei society, women take the back seat in every public functions like marriage, feasts at home or even at death. There is a concept called ahalna phamen phamgadabani unfortunately, this ahal does not include the elderly women.

There were reports that school officials barred Dalit children from morning prayers, asked Dalit children to sit in the back of the class, or forced them to clean school toilets while denying them access to the same facilities. There were also reports that teachers refused to correct the homework of Dalit children, refused to provide midday meals to Dalit children, and asked Dalit children to sit separately from children of upper-caste families. The law provides equal rights for persons with a variety of disabilities, and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 increased the number of recognized disabilities, including Parkinson’s disease and acid attacks.
In Gujarat, for example, Dalits were reportedly denied entry to temples and denied educational and employment opportunities. There were reports women and girls in the “devadasi” system of symbolic marriages to Hindu deities were victims of rape or sexual abuse at the hands of priests and temple patrons, a form of sex trafficking. NGOs suggested families forced some SC girls into prostitution in temples to mitigate household financial burdens and the prospect of marriage dowries. Some states have laws to curb prostitution or sexual abuse of women and girls in temple service.
All agreed that more young people need to adopt the ideals of peace — including human rights, justice and environmental issues — whether it's in the rest of the world or their own communities. In order to developed trade with the people from the hill, a Hao Keithel was developed at Imphal. The most important bazaar in the valley was the Khwairamand Bazar or Sana Keithel at Imphal. The women's market of Manipur is the only market of women in the north-east region of India and probably could be the only in the world. Women played a very important role, with their participation going away beyond managing economics of the house. When the male head of a family is killed or imprisoned, the mother has to fill in the gap caused by the patriarch's absence.

Yet, we maintained high morale by optimising our counter insurgency operational skills. Our Unit got inducted in Aizawl with operational role all over Mizoram as the reserve Battalion in the thick of Mizo insurgency spearheaded by Laldenga, who was a Havildar in the Indian Army and later worked as an Accounts Clerk in the Assam Government. He was alienated with the Assam Government’s indifference towards severe famine and as a leader of the outlawed Mizo National Front led the secessionist war for independence. Once Assam the ‘Mother State’ but now part of the seven sisters in the Northeastern India, is located south of the eastern Himalayas along Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
During periods of civil unrest in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, authorities used the law to ban public assemblies or impose curfews. In the central and eastern areas, armed conflicts between Maoist insurgents and government security forces over land and mineral resources in tribal forest areas continued. According to the South Asian Terrorism Portal’s existing conflict map, Maoist-affected states included Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam.

SAJ aims to highlight emerging regional trends, especially issues which call for more emphasis among decision makers and policy framers. The second batch of SF-10, a Special Force of the Meghalaya Police, with 152 commandos and a Unit of 50 recruits in Law and Order Riot Control were formally inducted on August 4, 2017. The first batch was  inducted after completing six months of basic training and a three-and-a-half month special commando counter-insurgency course on October 5, 2016.
GNLA also is known to have extensive linkages with Independent faction of United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA-I). The Late KPS Gill later said about Gujarat that it has been India's most under-policed state. In Meghalaya, in the late 1990s and in the new century, one knew about the stories of helpless cops lacking manpower and arms, often giving a virtual free run to the rebels. About Meghalaya's insurgency, many years later I discovered something in Gujarat.

Explain in detail the state of insurgency a North Eastern India after independence. Ammunition for Manipur smuggled from Myanmar apprehended in Mizoram "Biren Singh has enemies among people who don't even know him" Nirendra Dev... Rajkhowa had narrowly escaped death during Shira’s encounter as he had gone to a stream for a bath, the ULFA militant told the Meghalaya Police on Wednesday evening, as per the source. While the Army was discreetly transporting Rajkhowa and his four other aides to Assam in civilian vehicles after their surrender, the Meghalaya Police stopped them in East Garo Hills district around 6 pm on Wednesday evening, he said. Chandranathan said the militant had earlier narrowly escaped twice this year in encounters with the state police.
So far, the agreement is still in place, and the government is negotiating with the rebels over rehabilitation and economic aid  in exchange for disbanding. Nine people were injured — three of them critically — when Garo militants triggered a bomb blast on Saturday in Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills in Meghalaya, police said. With the Assembly elections due early this year, the northeastern state of Meghalaya is set to be a tough battleground for political parties in the region.