Anyone who has served in North-East with access to intelligence &...

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Anyone who has served in North-East with access to intelligence & has pragmatism & security imperatives of nation as primacy, will tell you that this is nothing new here.

03 groups which have "held" North-East for India, in civil subset, are - Marwaris, Bengalis & RSS.

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@CestMoiz How much strength does the Project K theory hold? To carve a Christian state of Kukiland from Manipur, Mizoram, Myanmar and Bangladesh by CIA
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Whether someone likes it or not, that has been a fact for almost 05 decades now.

Simplified version of what is the issue there - it's social?

The man is at times lazy, doesn't work. The women work & hold the house together. Tribes were predominantly Hindu. The lazy subset was
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the target, with various Churches actively converting quite a few to Christianity.

Also, the effects of Vietnam war, where free flow of drugs & weapons was allowed by West to fight the 'spread of communism' by financing local insurgents through drug money as also undermining
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available HR to adversarial groups by rampant spread of drug use in society, also resulted in development of resilient supply structures/routes/organizations.
War is long over but the groups/supplies remained intact. So does the business.

With a policy of non 'interference' in
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North-East, i.e. policy of not integrating & leaving NE undeveloped & poorly connected, by GoI, the writ of GoI was by & large, quite loose.

What do young men want? (We have seen it play out similarly in J&K, till date) Easy access to free money which gives access to women.
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And drugs played their part. A combination of societal & economic factors, mitigated to quite an extent with money & moral/counselling support provided by NGOs & church alike, allowed church to make quick in roads.

On the other hand, the 'vaccuum' in economic activities saw the
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Bengalis & Marwaris move in & integrate in to the social & economic activities in quite a few parts of the region. At the same time, the "space" created by absence of Govt Institutions (as usual) also saw RSS undertake significant social work in the region, notably, Tripura.
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This cohort also proved to be a valuable "source" for the Security Forces along with genuine local people who, predominantly, look for peace & prosperity.

With a relatively slow opening up of North-East & continued "land locked" geography, these three worked with predominant
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& vast peaceful people over decades to keep the level of violence low.

Changing demographics with illegal immigration from Bangladesh & of Rohingyas ably supported & encouraged by local govts & politicians across the spectrum, threw up complex & mixed challenges, starting late
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70s, with increased coordination between fringe elements of NE & the then defeated radicals of erstwhile East Pakistan, ably assisted by mid 80s by Pakistan, on backs of effective campaign being run in Afghanistan against Soviet forces. This decade also saw the Chinese actively
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establish "communication lines" with fringe elements in areas of Myanmar, Thailand.

The failure of successive Govts in India, both local & national, led to strengthened presence of fringe elements. The Govt was happy as long as the level of violence was "contained".

Ofcourse,
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it was anybody's guess that India was the hedge for both West & Russia against a resurgent India & at the same time, the longer geostrategic calculus for both West & Russia,alike, includes a hedge against a resurgent India. This was insured with steady lines of communications
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with Pakistan by both, as has been seen over the course of past two decades.

The fractured social fault lines, the foolish strategy of emphasizing diversity instead of imposing political, social & moral uniformity, as pursued by successive leadership for their own goals, left
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Indian society easily exploited to differences, something that was noticed being mainstream over the past decade plus, both domestically & internationally.

Had mentioned earlier that the best electronic warfare is one which is not even noticed. And India is an example of same.
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#WATCH | Shillong: On the Manipur situation, Assam Rifles Director General Lieutenant General PC Nair says, "...If videos are going around, these are doctored videos. I can tell you I have about 30 to 40 videos which have been circulating. Don't even belong to the northeast. They are from Myanmar, they are from other places. Some of them are from the Rohingya region. But some people who have a hidden agenda to create trouble here are doctoring that and showing them as security forces acting against people. Yes, there have been certain other instances where videos of Manipur have been shown. But amongst those videos also, it is only part of the incident. Let's say an incident has happened for about five to ten minutes. Let's say there are people been stopped and Assam riffle trying to stop them or whatever. In these videos that are being propagated, they only show part clippings which makes the story very different. Unless you see the entire video, unless you see the complete facts, you will tend to get carried away by what is coming. And that is precisely what is happening. Part of the story, part of the photograph, and part of the videos are what are being made and shown to drive a certain agenda which is wrong..."

He further added "...From the first day, that is from the 3 May itself, Assam Rifle has maintained a neutral stand (in Manipur). So all these narratives that have been coming are agenda-driven. It makes me laugh when I read some of these stupid reports stating that the Assam riffle is favouring one community, not favouring the other. These are nothing but rumours, falsehoods, preposterous. There is no background to this and I can substantiate it with statistics...to call us being biased towards a particular community is wrong...."
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