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| THE EYEWITNESS Tales From Tripura’s Ethnic Conflict Manas Paul  • Devastating account of tribal conflicts and resulting “ethnic cleansing” in North East India Tripura, the smallest of North East Indian states surrounded on three sides by Bangladesh over the last three decades was caught in the vortex of highly patterned militant violence, deadly ethnic conflicts and planned destruction of thousand-year-old harmonious and peaceful coexistence of tribal and non-tribal people of the state. Since the day the TNV took to arms, down the years, the surfeit of tribal insurgencies in Tripura is marked by brutal civilian massacres, abduction of innocent citizens, ambushes on security forces, large scale extortion and a ruthless ethnic cleansing perpetrated on unarmed non-tribals by the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All Tripura Tiger Force—two banned underground organisations. The armed insurrections in Tripura at varied levels and colours, often abetted by narrow political interest were, marked not only by serious threat to human life and civilian security, but also by destruction of properties on a colossal scale. The blood spilling xenophobic tribal militancy seeking homogenisation of the land and its subsequent fall out also caused wide ethnic fissures between the majority Bengalis and minority indigenous tribal people. Manas Paul creates a matrix of hard facts and figures with personal experiences and stories of witnesses from cross section of people—common men, businessmen, police and security officials, through to militants, journalists, and recounts the experiences and resulting impact on the many victims of the militancy. About the AuthorManas Paul is a journalist of 20 years experience, and contributes to The Times of India. Reviews |  Publish Date 15/01/2010 Specifications 216mm x 140mm 320 pages pages 16 b/w photos 978-1-935501-15-2 £ 14.99 hardback Lancer  |
