All hell broke loose. The three day bandh called in the state to protest against the molestation of a film star by self styled Lt. Col of NSCN caused devastation. Such type of bandh was self destructing. The real issue was hijacked. All that was witnessed during bandh period was unprecedented. Bandh volunteers acted on their own as if they had no leaders. The three day bandh will be eye opener. Civil organisations will think twice next time before calling bandh in future. Perhaps the state Government is handicapped to take action against the NSCN cadre. It might be for these reasons that the Government called all party meeting to discuss over the matter. A delegation of all party will be sent to Delhi to pressurise the Union Government to hand over the perpetrator of the crime to the Government of Manipur. The all party delegation will be able to extricate information from the Union Government as why it cannot take action against the NSCN. Every organisation be it political or civil attempts to keep itself abreast of criminals either by expelling them or the criminals themselves deserting the organisation. NSCN too must adopt similar method. Livingstone should be kicked out from the organisation. That way the image of NSCN will be improved. Manipur almost burnt. A private channel camera man died while covering police action against the bandh volunteers. Manipur had witnessed the bandh of this nature in past. Yet police did not learn anything from the past. Live bullet was used to disperse the crowd. That had been proved by the killing of a camera man. That is really sad. What is even sadder is the fact that all these were the fall out of wild and thoughtless action of a cadre of a rebel organisation. Such person should be punished by the organisation. The prolonged association with this man will drag down the image of NSCN. Leaders of the organisation ought to know that. The state Government has announced a cash reward of Rs five lakhs on the head of Livingstone. It shows the state Government is committed to find early solution to this crime against woman. Manipur these days is becoming unsafe for fair sex. Too many crimes had been committed against women of all ages. The victims of rape or torture included even old woman. Drastic actions need to be taken against the perpetrators of the crime so that in future they will not think of committing crime against women. Laws should be made stricter to provide extreme form of punishment to the wrong doers. Who are these men who do not know crime against women is punishable. In the past even an underground organisation carried out physical elimination of rapists. Even then we continue to hear reports of molestation of women by men. Nothing has changed. But the one that happened at Chandel was painful for the crime was committed in front of law enforcing agencies by a member of a rebel organisation. As if he was out of bound he even shot to those who intervened. Livingstone had angered all. He must be caught without delay.
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