Indian forces to break Guwahati blockade

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GUWAHATI, June 14 (AFP): India will send paramilitary troops Tuesday to end a blockade of a northeastern state by tribal groups that has cut food and medical supplies for over two months, a top official said.
Several Naga tribal groups have blocked the main highways into Manipur state since April 12 to protest against a government decision preventing their separatist leader, Thuingaleng Muivah, from visiting his birthplace.
Government officials say they have only got two food convoys into the state since the start of the protest, sending food prices soaring, while hospitals have run perilously low on essential medical supplies.
"The process would begin from Tuesday and we shall see to it that food supplies reach Manipur," Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, the senior civil servant in the interior ministry, told AFP from New Delhi.