The predicted fear of famine did not spare the distressed agrarian villagers in Tipaimukh sub-division in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, which is the epicentre of the dreaded gregarious bamboo flowering or Mautam (in Hmar-Mizo). Sub-divisions adjoining Tipaimukh, Thanlon, Singat and Henglep were also chronically affected by severe food crisis after the natural phenomenon.
The alarming increase of rats, rodents, birds, insects, and wild animals after the bamboo flowering has severely destroyed all standing crops, leaving the self-reliant farmers with nothing. Since the latter part of 2007 the bamboo flowering has resulted in a full blown food crisis. “There was nothing left for us to harvest. Not even a sheave of grain. Not even the chillies, sesame and maize. We battled with the rats, rodents, insects and wild animals over our hard toiled crops. In the end we get nothing out of it. We are not even left with seeds. Today we are living with hunger. We are doomed and shattered. Only God knows what holds for us”, Fimlawithang of Parvachawm village said.
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Source: North East Sun, May 31, 2008
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June 5th, 2008 at 7:49 am
An va han khawngaihthlak hlawm tak em ! Heti em ema mautam tawrh lona turin Central sorkar ah sum a tam a, Mahse Manipur sorkar khi chu a awm ve tang tang ani mai a. Tuten emaw UN, World food Programme ah emaw sawisak sela, a rang thei ang bera tanpui an mamawh ani. Nimin maiah khawvel ram hrang hranga eirur nei lo h otanpui nan dolalr tluklehdingawn tam ve an tiam kha. $ 100,000 pawn buhfai tam fe lei theih dawn si a.
North East Sun article ka chhiar chhuak vek a, ka hnuk a ulh teuh mai.
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June 5th, 2008 at 8:22 am
A va pawi ve aw. Chro, Director leh (ENC, Euro-Burma Officer ni bawk ani a mah hi, tih rual in mizoram mautam tan ah pawh a staff thawhpui ten hma an la in chhak lam tan pawh an la mek zel e. Manipur lam chanchin kan lo hriat tam loh vang te a lo ni a pawi hle mai. Pu Vicktor-a te hnen ah te khian sawi lang ta se, puih a hreh miah ka ring lo. Chutih rual in theih ang in ka lo sawi lang ve chhin ang.
04 June, 2008
London, UK: A trio of Chin delegates are today to attend Global Youth Congress, The Big Hope, organised by Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool, UK. The group includes Victor Biak Lian of ENC (Ethnic Nationalities Council), Cheery Zahau of Women’s League of Chinland and Sasa, a Chin medical student studying in Armenia.
The Big Hope which is expected to host more than a thousand attendants from across the world has got a line-up of various top speakers including Archbishop of Westminster, Cherie Booth QC, wife of Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Baroness Caroline Cox.
https://www.chinlandguardian.com/index.php/Home/312
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July 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Is only Tipaimukh in hunger? What about the other subdivisions of Ccpur district? Are they not in hunger? Maybe the writer is so far-sighted (sic) that he can only see Tipaimukh in hunger while the other people in Ccpur are invisible to him. Stop this narrow, parochial politics of yours, Mr David. And why should Northeast Sun always be about Hmars and Tipaimukh. Don’t the other people of Northeast India deserve some space?
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