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  1. Manipur Violence: SC Seeks Probe Status from State Govt, CBI, NIA

    Based on the reports on status of probe and filing of chargesheets, the Supreme Court said it will take a call on whether the trials can commence in Assam or be undertaken in Manipur.

    #manipur #SupremeCourt #ManipurUnrest #ManipurGovt #CBI #NIA #BJPStates #india

    thewire.in/law/manipur-violenc

  2. In the Absence of All Kuki MLAs, Manipur Passes Bill Criminalising Changing Names of Places

    From the instances given by the chief minister at the House, it comes across that the law was particularly aimed at stalling the Kuki community to act otherwise. For instance, the Kuki-dominated Churachandpur being referred to as Lamka by them.

    #manipur #ManipurUnrest #meiteis #kukis #ManipurGovt #BJPStates #india

    thewire.in/government/in-the-a

  3. In Imphal, the state’s surrender to an armed Meitei militia with ‘Taliban-like’ grip

    Three MLAs were assaulted by the cadres of Arambai Tenggol at the meeting held on January 24. One had to be briefly hospitalised.

    #manipur #ManipurUnrest #meiteis #kukis #ArambaiTenggol #ManipurGovt #BJPStates #india

    scroll.in/article/1062725/in-i

  4. Paying lip-service to the sacrifices of our soldiers and the military

    Unless the senior military brass miraculously develops a spine and the mainstream Indian media starts doing journalism instead of government propaganda, soldiers should be prepared for more setbacks to their status, standing and rights under the current regime, writes Sushant Singh.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #BJP #NarendraModi #IndianArmedForces #MeiraPaibi #meiteis #kukis #AssamRifles #ManipurPolice #ManipurGovt #OROP #media #BJPStates #india

    deccanherald.com/opinion/payin

  5. Six months of chaos in Manipur show utter failure of double-engine government

    Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are great admirers of Sardar Patel but lack his ability to govern with wisdom or administer with care and understanding, writes Ramachandra Guha.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #BJP #NarendraModi #AmitShah #BJPStates #meiteis #kukis #ManipurGovt #KukiZos #RSS #hindutva #india

    scroll.in/article/1058615/rama

  6. As The Government Failed Manipur, Once Peace-Loving People Picked Up Weapons, Fought & Died

    The Manipur government’s failure to end the ethnic violence has caused ordinary Meitei and Kuki—a poet, a university student, an ironsmith—to pick up arms and die because they felt they had to defend their people.

    article-14.com/post/as-the-gov

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #displacement #ManipurGovt #BirenSingh #BJP #ManipurRapes #NarendraModi #IndianArmy #CRPF #BSF #AssamRifles #IndianArmedForces #india

  7. Internet Ban in Manipur to Be Lifted Today, Says CM Biren Singh

    Internet was shut down in the state for five months following the outbreak of violence on May 3. It was among the longest internet bans imposed in an Indian state.

    thewire.in/government/internet

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #InternetShutdown #BirenSingh #censorship #meiteis #kukis #ManipurGovt #india

  8. Surrender Illegal Weapons in 15 Days or Face Action, Manipur CM Warns People

    Thousands of sophisticated weapons have been looted from state armouries and police stations, which rival groups used in unleashing violence in the state. Several such calls for surrendering weapons were also made in the past, but to no avail.

    thewire.in/government/surrende

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #BirenSingh #ArmsLoot #meiteis #kukis #ManipurGovt #GunCulture #india

  9. Torture, rape, killings in Manipur: An Indian state's brutal conflict

    A sense of fear is all pervasive in Manipur since shocking violence between their community and minority Kuki groups broke out, marked by brutal killings and sexual crimes against women. More than 200 people have been killed, roughly two-thirds of them Kukis, a collective name for the Kuki, Zomi, Chin, Hmar and Mizo tribes who are mostly Christians.

    bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #zomis #ManipurPolice #AssamRifles #BJP #christians #ManipurGovt #BirenSingh #UnionGovt #NarendraModi #india

  10. Reporter’s Diary: Remembering the slain Manipur policeman I briefly knew

    Onkhomang Haokip, a Kuki official who had barely escaped with his life when the ethnic violence broke out in May, was shot dead by a sniper this week.

    scroll.in/article/1056062/repo

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #OnkhomangHaokip #ManipurPolice #kukis #meiteis #MeiteiMilitancy #ManipurGovt #india

  11. Police Updates Statistics on Manipur Violence: 175 Officially Dead, 96 Bodies Yet Unclaimed

    A total of 5,668 arms have been lost and only around a quarter (1,329) of it was recovered, police said.

    thewire.in/government/manipur-

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurPolice #meiteis #kukis #ArmsLoot #ManipurGovt #india

  12. Manipur violence: Police sub-inspector shot dead by ‘sniper’ in village bordering Churachandpur

    Condemning the incident, the police said Haokip’s last rites will be performed on Thursday at Churachandpur in a ‘befitting manner’.

    telegraphindia.com/north-east/

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #churachandpur #meiteis #kukis #MeiteiMilitancy #ArmsLoot #ManipurPolice #ManipurGovt #BJP #india

  13. Manipur Govt's Statement Against Security Forces Goes Against Its Own Police's Version: Report

    A 'Telegraph' report notes how the Biren Singh government and Manipur Police have differing versions of gunfight between an armed group and the security forces.

    thewire.in/security/manipur-vi

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #tengnoupal #meiteis #kukis #IndianArmy #ManipurGovt #IndianArmedForces #ManipurPolice #BirenSingh #BJP #india

  14. SC protects ex-Army man, prof against coercive action in two FIRs lodged against them in Manipur

    Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Manipur government, said there was "a pattern to approaching the Supreme Court directly by one segment".

    newindianexpress.com/nation/20

    #SupremeCourt #manipur #VijaykantChenji #ProfHenminlun #ManipurPolice #ManipurGovt #india

  15. Assam Rifles DG Says Manipur Situation Unprecedented, 'Never Faced Anything of This Kind'

    Lt General P.C. Nair flagged the “large number of weapons” with civilians as a key concern. He also said society “has become weaponised".

    thewire.in/security/assam-rifl

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #AssamRifles #meiteis #kukis #ArmsLoot #IndianArmy #ManipurGovt #BJP #india

  16. 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

  17. How Manipur hounds Kuki intellectuals

    3 civil society leaders have been charged with outraging religious feelings, promoting enmity between groups after they articulated their community’s viewpoint on brutal conflict in media interviews, writes Ajaz Ashraf.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #censorship #KhamKhanSuanHausing #MaryGraceZou #WilsonLHangsing #christians #majoritarianism #ManipurGovt #BJP #india

    mid-day.com/news/opinion/artic

  18. Has the state really withered away in Manipur?

    Instead, it has taken on a different shape: from an entity governed by a liberal social contract to one driven by an ethno-majoritarian consensus.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurGovt #BirenSingh #meiteis #kukis #ManipurArmsLoot #InternetShutdown #censorship #BJP #india

    scroll.in/article/1054009/has-

  19. Siege on Manipur: Hindu Nationalists' War for Ethnic Supremacy

    Across India, experiments to forge the 'Hindu national community' are predicated on the breakage of minoritised Muslims and Christians, and Adivasis and Dalits. What's happening in Manipur is part of a plan operationalised by the Hindu Right decades ago.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #meiteis #kukis #HinduNationalism #hindutva #EthnicCleansing #BJP #christians #minorities #ManipurGovt #BirenSingh #AmitShah #northeast #india

    thewire.in/communalism/siege-o

  20. He embraced Meiteis but offended Kukis: Three errors of Amit Shah in handling Manipur crisis

    Amit Shah focused tactically on what at the moment seemed to him the right thing to say but overlooked or ignored what was strategically more appropriate for Manipur’s future, writes Karan Thapar.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #AmitShah #meiteis #kukis #BirenSingh #BJP #MeiteiLeepun #ArambaiTenggol #ManipurGovt #hindutva #india

    telegraphindia.com/india/he-em

  21. Assam Rifles faces the heat in Manipur; fabricated attempts to malign image: Army

    In a statement, the Army’s Spear Corps said it along with Assam Rifles will continue to remain firm and resolute in carrying out actions to prevent violence in Manipur.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #AssamRifles #ManipurPolice #CBI #IndianArmy #SpearCorps #meiteis #kukis #ManipurGovt #BirenSingh #BJP #india

    thefederal.com/states/north-ea

  22. After 3 Meiteis killed, town now in crosshairs of Manipur conflict

    In small town Kwakta, though located in the Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district, almost 85 per cent of its estimated 13,500 voters are Muslim Meitei Pangals; around 1,500 are Meiteis; and there are just around 15 Kuki-Zomi houses in Ward 8 of the Kwakta municipal council area.

    #manipur #bishnupur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #ManipurGovt #BJP #india

    indianexpress.com/article/indi

  23. 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-

  24. Double-Engine: The Union and State Government Must Answer for Manipur

    August 3 marks exactly three months since the start of the mayhem in Manipur. Fears of state collusion and complicity in the violence are growing with time. Nandita Haksar writes.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #meiteis #kukis #majoritarianism #christians #churches #BJP #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #article355 #environment #ForestRights #UnionGovt #india

    thewire.in/politics/double-eng

  25. Manipur was given to us by our forefathers, not by India: Meitei Leepun chief Pramot Singh

    Meitei Leepun chief Pramot Singh says that sacking CM Biren Singh will send a message to the Meiteis that Indian government has backed the Kukis to defeat Meiteis. The Meiteis will also protest against the President’s Rule as it’s a demand by the Kukis.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #MeiteiLeepun #PramotSingh #RSS #ABVP #meiteis #kukis #majoritarianism #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #BJP #hindutva #MeiteiNationalism #interview #india

    indiatodayne.in/manipur/story/

  26. From Manipur, A Peace Activist’s Account Of State Criminality & Culpability

    In this blow-by-blow account, peace activist Harsh Mander describes his journey to Manipur, where he met Meitei and Kuki families broken by three months of ethnic violence, life inside the camps where hundreds live in despair, unsure if they will ever return to their scorched villages, and the “extreme culpability” of a seemingly partisan state that has done little to help the minority Christians who have been killed and uprooted in greater numbers.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #christians #displacement #ManipurRapes #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #BJP #HarshMander #JohnDayal #KarwanEMohabbat #activism #india

    article-14.com/post/from-manip

  27. Manipur assault video emboldens women to speak out

    New allegations of violence against women are emerging in the north-east Indian state of Manipur, as the response to a viral video showing two women being paraded naked by a mob encourages others to speak.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #ManipurRapes #kukis #meiteis #HumanRights #rape #GangRape #ViolenceAgainstWomen #MeiraPeibis #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #UnionGovt #BJP #india

    TW: descriptions of rape

    bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-

  28. Manipur: Catholic Bishops' Association Calls Upon 'Governance System' to Uphold Secular Fabric

    Not for the first time have concerns been expressed over attacks on churches and violence against women and children.

    #manipur #ManipurViolence #CBCI #CatholicBishops #catholics #christians #kukis #meiteis #ManipurRapes #HumanRights #ManipurGovt #UnionGovt #BJP #india

    thewire.in/rights/catholic-bis

  29. 18-year-old gang-raped in Manipur after women vigilantes hand her over to armed men

    FIR says Meira Paibis women’s group handed her over to four armed men; after a brutal assault, gangrape, murder threats, she arrived at Bishnupur police station but did not trust Meitei police to take her home.

    #manipur #ManipurRapes #ManipurViolence #MeiraPaibis #meiteis #kukis #majoritarianism #ManipurPolice #ManipurGovt #BJP #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/18-

  30. 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

  31. 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/

  32. ‘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