Following the recent gun attack on one of the Meitei farmers in the Bishnupur district of Manipur, the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) has expressed a stern appeal to establish a special type of security area, i.e., called the Farmer Safety Zone, along the periphery regions of the Imphal Valley. The request is two days after a farmer named Ningthoujam Biren Singh was seriously wounded when he was assaulted by armed men just 30 meters from the site occupied by SSB personnel.
Terming the attack as a form of terrorism and as a serious violation of security, COCOMI raised doubts over the success of the present security arrangement, claiming that the venom had been struck, though there were three levels of security, namely BSF, Army and SSB. The organisation raised a lot of concerns regarding reliability and the motive of the current deployment in vulnerable agricultural areas.
In another incident, COCOMI, through its statement, reported that a team of the outfit had a meeting with the Bishnupur Superintendent of Police and later had a strategic security meeting with the supervisory police officers, such as ADGP L Kailun and IGP K Kabib. In such sittings, COCOMI reinstated its demands on the issuance of shoot-at-sight orders against unauthorised armed invaders, particularly those who were found in possession of assault rifles or any other deadly guns in no-arms zones.
The Meitei body is demanding that the whole agricultural belt, especially in the foothills and canal belts, be declared officially as a Farmer Safety Zone. It also insisted on free movement of the farmers into the paddy fields till the foothill areas and wanted better patrolling and surveillance. In this regard, COCOMI has called for the use of two to three more security firms to provide mobile policing, and there should be maintenance of the current security posts to provide 24/7 security in the area.
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