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New Delhi, July 10, 2023 (PPI-OT): Communal violence marred by growing lawlessness has escalated to an extent where Hindu majority tribe Meiteis and Christian minority Kukis are freely using quadcopters against each other in the strife-torn Manipur state of India. Warring Meiteis, mostly concentrated in Imphal valley and tribal Kukis, mainly on the hillside, in Manipur have widely been found using quadcopters to identify locations of each other to launch attacks.
As per security officials, the drones had thus been proving to be both a boon and a bane. Army and Assam Rifles personnel are deploying drones to rescue people. An official said the security personnel located armed assailants using quadcopters in Kakching district of South East Manipur and then rescued nearly 2,000 civilians. While the security men engaged the assailants in a fight, other teams rescued the civilians in vehicles using a different route from Serou to Pangaltabi, the official said.
Another official said they had noticed the use of quadcopters by the warring groups to know each other’s location. “There have been places like Phougakchao, Kangvai Bazar and Torbung Bazar in the southwest part of Manipur where the quadcopters have been put to extensive use where their villages face each other,” the official said. “The mistrust for each other has led to the warring communities to use aerial vehicles to monitor their rival’s movements and location,” the officials said. Since quadcopters are freely available in market, security forces often encounter intermittent firing as both groups take shots at each other’s flying objects, they said.
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