New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- The recent storming of Imphal by the armed Arambai Tenggol, a radical Meitei organization; administrating oaths to 37 legislators and two MPs at Kangla Fort, their demands (abrogate SoO with Kuki-Zo; remove Assam Rifles (AR) from Manipur and delist Kuki-Zo as Schedule Tribes); and overall arming of the majority Meitei community of Manipur has been covered in these columns earlier (https://www.southasiamonitor.org/spotlight/growing-radicalization-manipur-remains-boil).

In the situation of over 3,000 guns looted from the police armouries still with radical Meitei elements, armed cadres of the Arambai Tenggol riding in gypsy vehicles, flying Kangleipak flags, having free run masquerading as police, without security forc...