When criminals operate from across the border people have no clue about their activities. This has become a global phenomenon. Manipur seems to be affected by the cross border criminal activities. Drugs are often seized in the Manipur border areas however the trade continues unabated. At Tulihal airport drug was also seized recently but we don’t know who were involved and what actions have been taken up. It was an inter state criminal activity. When smugglers carry out such activities in the border areas the remains a mute spectator. The random arrests and seizure have not stopped the illegal drug activities. Vigil within the state has to be intensified if we want to make our future safe. There may be other things which are being exported and imported. We may be in the dark about the illegal activities that are taking place. We have to understand that turnover of cross-border organized crime is about $870 billion a year, more than six times the total of official development aid, and stopping this “threat to peace” is one of the greatest global challenges, a U.N. agency said on Monday.The most lucrative businesses for criminals are drug trafficking and counterfeiting, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said, launching an awareness-raising campaign about the size and cost of cross-border criminal networks.”Millions of victims are affected each year as a result of the activities of organized crime groups with human trafficking victims alone numbering 2.4 million at any one time,” UNODC said in a statement.The total estimated figure of $870 billion is equivalent to 1.5 percent of the world’s gross domestic product, it said, warning that crime groups can destabilize entire regions.”Stopping this transnational threat represents one of the international community’s greatest global challenges,” UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said.A spokesman said it was the first time the agency had compiled an estimate for transnational organized crime, using internal UNODC and external sources, so there were no comparative figures to show any trend.The report drew on International Labour Organisation (ILO) data on the cost of human trafficking as well as information about counterfeit goods compiled by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The UN report may not be comprehensive but it is an eye opener. Similar research involving all agencies need to be taken up in the state as we are prone to such activities. The persecution of people involved in such activities have to be carried out in such a way that it also acts as deterrent. Deterrence is important as we need to send a message to the people involved in such acts. They should be stopped with an iron will. People should stop resorting to easy money activities.
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