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  1. One Year on, the BJP Is Feeling the Impact of the Manipur Crisis

    The state and Union governments' apathy in Manipur during the last year led to poll losses for the BJP in the Northeast.

    #manipur #LokSabhaElection2024 #ManipurUnrest #BJP #NDA #meiteis #KukiZos #india

    thewire.in/politics/one-year-o

  2. Behind India’s Manipur conflict: A tale of drugs, armed groups and politics

    The drug trade has played a significant role in the political landscape as well as in heightening the conflict in Manipur.

    #manipur #ManipurUnrest #meiteis #KukiZos #DrugTrade #BJPStates #india

    aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/1

  3. What it means to survive a war, with dignity

    Women leaders of the Kuki-Zo community reflect on the hardships of a state supported war, and how they are rebuilding lives while negotiating denial of agency and leadership.

    #manipur #ManipurUnrest #KukiZos #EthnicCleansing #kukis #meiteis #BJPStates #india

    no-niin.com/issue-23/what-it-m

  4. Despite Opposition From Kuki-Zos, Amit Shah Says India Will Fence Entire Northeast Border With Myanmar

    This is being seen as a setback to the ‘Look East Policy’ which in 2018 had formalised the free movement regime allowing people across both sides to fraternise and enter each other’s territory up to 16 km and stay for a fortnight without a visa.

    #northeast #KukiZos #myanmar #FreeMovement #FMR #IndianBorders #AmitShah #MHA #india

    thewire.in/government/despite-

  5. Centre asks to study delisting Kukis, Zomis from ST list

    A representation was sent to Union Tribal Affairs Minister by the Republican Party of India (Athawale) National Secretary in Imphal. The Centre forwarded it to State.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #UnionGovt #kukis #zomis #KukiZos #ST #meiteis #BJPStates #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/cen

  6. In Churachandpur, a Brutal and Final Homecoming for 87 People

    Eighty seven coffins, carrying the bodies of Kuki-Zo people killed in the violence, were buried in a ceremony of community and grieving. Some of those buried were killed in May, eight months ago.

    #manipur #churachandpur #ManipurViolence #KukiZos #meiteis #kukis #ManipurMassBurials #BJPStates #india

    thewire.in/rights/churachandpu

  7. Manipur Tribal Body Announces 'Self-Rule' in 3 Districts, Cites 'Centre's Selective Justice'

    'We do not care if the Centre doesn’t recognise us.'

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ITLF #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #BJPStates #india

    thewire.in/rights/manipur-itlf

  8. Manipur tribal body gives Centre two weeks’ ultimatum for separate administration for Kuki-Zos

    The Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum said after the deadline, it will set up a ‘self-government whether the Centre recognises it or not’.

    #manipur #ITLF #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #UnionGovt #BJPStates #india

    scroll.in/latest/1059165/manip

  9. Are the Nagas of Manipur finally taking a stand in the Meitei-Kuki conflict?

    Interviews with politicians and civil society activists from the community reveal a complex picture.

    scroll.in/article/1055757/are-

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #nagas #UNC #kukis #KukiZos #meiteis #NRC #NSCNIM #prepak #india

  10. ‘A message for Nagas’: Why the Kukis did not mark ‘black day’ this year

    For 30 years, every September, Kukis have mourned civilians killed by Naga militants. This year, however, they have chosen to uphold ‘tribal solidarity’.

    scroll.in/article/1055968/a-me

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #nagas #kukis #KukiZos #meiteis #NSCNIM #KukiInpi #KPA #india

  11. Several hill villages in Manipur wrongly included in valley districts: ST panel

    The NCST had asked the State to review an order moving forest land from Kangpokpi to Imphal East without the approval of the Hill Areas Committee.

    thehindu.com/news/national/oth

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #NCST #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #ATSUM #HAC #AFSPA #india

  12. Restrictions imposed in Imphal to prevent march to Bishnupur Churachandpur border

    An influential Meitei civil society group has called for a march towards the Bishnupur-Churachandpur boundary on Wednesday to remove an Army barricade.

    thehindu.com/news/national/oth

    #manipur #imphal #curfew #COCOMI #meiteis #ManipurViolence #kukis #KukiZos #india

  13. Behind Manipur violence, a ‘war on drugs’ that wasn’t

    Even as Manipur's BJP government has publicised a 'war on drugs', heroin has gotten cheaper and more popular in the state with high school students increasingly prone to drug addiction.

    thenewsminute.com/article/behi

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #heroin #DrugAddiction #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #BJP #india

  14. Manipur violence case: Supreme Court sets up panel of 3 women ex-judges to oversee humanitarian measures

    The top court also indicated that it will appoint senior Maharashtra cadre IPS officer Dattatray Padsalgikar, who had served in the NIA, IB and Nagaland, to monitor the overall investigation of cases registered during the violence.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #SupremeCourt #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #ManipurGovt #BJP #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/sc-

  15. Feminist icons or violent vigilantes? The contentious role of Meira Paibis in Manipur’s conflict

    Celebrated for long as the torchbearers of Manipur, Meitei women groups now stand accused of blocking the army and egging on violence against Kuki-Zo women.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #MeiraPaibis #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #ViolenceAgainstWomen #MeiteiNationalism #christians #majoritarianism #india

    scroll.in/article/1053761/femi

  16. Can’t be a five-trillion dollar economy at cost of rivers of blood flowing in North-East

    At the heart of the conflict are a disenchanted peoples, Kuki-Zo, Nagas and Meiteis and a society torn asunder by the cynical politics of the ‘double engine sarkar’, writes Rupa Chinai.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #nagas #KukiZos #majoritarianism #sanamahi #ArambaiTenggol #MeiteiLeepun #ForestConservationAct #PalmOilMission #ForestRights #BJP #india

    sabrangindia.in/cant-be-a-five

  17. FIR reveals horrific killing of Manipur youth

    The Kuki-Zo youth, who was arrested for sharing a post on CM Biren Singh, was being taken from court to jail on May 4, when a mob of around 800 men and women intercepted the police vehicle, dragged him out and beat him to death; NHRC records case as custodial death, issues notices.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #BirenSingh #ManipurPolice #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #lynching #BJP #NHRC #ManipurUnrest #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/whe

  18. Union Minister for NE States Kishan Reddy takes over as Telangana BJP chief — even as Manipur reels from violence

    At a time when he should ideally be dousing the flames of communalism in Manipur, Reddy took up the mantle from the outgoing president.

    #telengana #KishanReddy #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #BJP #UnionGovt #india

    thesouthfirst.com/telangana/ki

  19. More cases of women being assaulted surface in Manipur

    After the video of the Thoubal incident, a photo of a woman’s charred body is now in circulation; 10 Manipur legislators issue statement mentioning at least four other incidents of rape or murder.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #ViolenceAgainstWomen #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #ManipurGovt #majoritarianism #BJP #UnionGovt #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/wom

  20. Manipur: Kicked around like a ball, assaulted girl quizzes CM Biren Singh

    ‘How many videos of atrocities against women need to surface for the chief minister to admit that a section of women has been under attack only because of their ethnicity?’

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #rape #GangRape #meiteis #kukis #ViolenceAgainstWomen #ManipurGovt #BJP #BirenSingh #majoritarianism #KukiZos #christians #UnionGovt #india

    telegraphindia.com/north-east/

  21. ‘Everyone should know what happened to us’: Four Kuki women recount brutal assaults they survived

    In three separate incidents in May, the four women were attacked by gangs who said they were taking revenge for violence against their community.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #rape #GangRape #meiteis #kukis #ViolenceAgainstWomen #ManipurGovt #majoritarianism #KukiZos #christians #UnionGovt #india

    TW: descriptions of rape

    scroll.in/article/1053038/ever

  22. Seventy-Nine Days After Violence Broke Out, Narendra Modi Finally Talks About Manipur

    Even now, though, he refused to comment on Manipur alone – and brought up two Congress-ruled states which have seen no similar scale of violence of late in the very same sentence.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #NarendraModi #ManipurUnrest #ManipurRapes #GangRape #rape #ViolenceAgainstWomen #KukiZos #kukis #meiteis #christians #ManipurGovt #UnionGovt #india

    thewire.in/politics/seventy-ni