Even though there haven't been any new violent incidents in Manipur in the last four days, officials said Thursday that more Central forces are beginning to arrive in the troubled state.

The additional Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have been arriving in Manipur since Tuesday, according to a senior Home Department official. They are being stationed in sensitive, vulnerable, mixed-population, and outlying areas of both hill and valley districts.
According to the official, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) decided on November 18 to send an additional 50 companies (roughly 5,000 personnel) of the CAPF to Manipur in order to address the current law and order situation amid the rising violence in the state, particularly in the Jiribam district.

"One company of the CAPF that has already reached Manipur is made up of female employees. The BSF (Border Security Force), the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force), and other paramilitary groups make up the CAPF," he stated.



After Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the situation in Delhi, the state plagued by violence, in an urgent meeting on November 17 and 18, the MHA agreed to provide an additional 50 CAPF companies.

These meetings were attended by senior members of the security force and MHA.


Last week, the MHA supplied an additional 20 CAPF companies, 15 of which were CRPF and five of which were BSF.

According to the Home Department official, "no new violent incidents have occurred in any of the districts in Manipur since Monday."


After three women and three children from the Meitei community were "abducted by militants" from a relief camp in Borobekra Sub division in Jiribam district on November 11 and their bodies were recovered on November 15 and 16, widespread violence occurred in several districts of Manipur, particularly in Imphal East, Imphal West, and Jiribam.

The six were "kidnapped," according to police officials, following a confrontation between the CRPF and the suspected militants in the Jiribam district on November 11 that resulted in the deaths of ten suspected Kuki-Zo militants.


However, all Kuki-Zo-Hmar tribal organizations asserted that the ten individuals who were killed were "Village Volunteers." Their bodies are currently being held in a morgue at a hospital in Churachandpur following the post-mortem at the Silchar Medical College.