Such was the scale of the violence that 24 hours or so later, the Centre felt it must step in Geography, they say, is everything, even destiny. Nothing could be truer for Manipur today, where since May 3 a section of the state's minority tribal and majority Meitei populations have clashed with a bitterness that is unremembered and has left several people dead. Such was the scale of the violence that 24 hours or so later, the Centre felt it must step in. In an oddly coy fashion -- there appears to be no official notification about it -- the Centre is widely reported to have promulgated Article 355 of the Constitution in Manipur, that empowers it to protect states from external threats and internal disturbance, in this case, the latter.

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