The current turmoil in the northeastern State of Manipur was primarily an ethnic clash and had nothing to do with insurgency, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday.
“The situation in Manipur has nothing to do with counter-insurgency and is primarily a clash between two ethnicities. It is a law-and-order kind of situation and we are helping the state government with the problem. We [the Army] have done an excellent job and saved a large number of lives,” Gen Chauhan told reporters here after reviewing the Passing Out Parade (POP) of the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Pune’s Khadakwasla.
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