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Manipur to check recruitment of child soldiers-Iboyaima Laithangbam


The Manipur government has taken a serious view of the recruitment of child soldiers by some underground organisations. Talking to Naharolgi Thoudang , a vernacular newspaper, G. Gaikhangam, Home Minister, said that since mature and educated persons would not like to join insurgent outfits, the frustrated groups were targeting children.

He had directed Director-General of Police Ratnakar Bralal to keep all police stations in the State on alert.

He said it was unfortunate that boys as young as 12 were lured and recruited by underground organisations.

He said one woman was arrested in connection with the recruitment. She had even confessed to the police that she was a member of a militant outfit.

He sought the cooperation of the parents and people at large to check this malaise. Most of the parents, whose children were missing, were not coming out in the open. Unknown callers, identifying themselves as members of banned outfits, had warned them from going to the press or the police.

It is feared that almost all the children had been whisked away to camps, where they would be given basic training in guerilla warfare.

Meanwhile, angry villagers of Jessami, bordering Nagaland, ransacked a police station on Friday, after the police reportedly declined to escort some villagers, who wanted to retrieve their belongings from their huts near a paddy field.

On Wednesday, some of them had been abducted by some villagers of Nagaland, and later released. The people, and the MLA of the constituency, P. Shimray, are demanding redeployment of the Indian Reserve Battalion there.