‘Don’t let Manipur become the new Golden Triangle of drugs’: Imphal Valley-based civil society organisations write to European Parliament

An umbrella body of Imphal Valley-based civil society organisations has asked the European Parliament (EP) not to let Manipur become the “new Golden Triangle” of the drug trade by projecting the violence between “immigrant Chin-Kuki narco-terrorists” and the indigenous Meitei people in the northeastern State as a religious conflict. 

The Golden Triangle refers to one of the biggest poppy-growing and drug-trafficking corridors in the world straddling China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. 

The Kukis, a group of tribes, are the third largest community in Manipur after the non-tribal Meiteis and the tribal Nagas. The ethnically-related Chins are primarily from Myanmar, many of whom have allegedly settled down illegally in Manipur over the decades.

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