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.
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.
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.
Nine Meiteis injured in Manipur firing after alleged abduction of four Kuki-Zos
An angry Meitei mob ‘forcibly took away’ the Kukis from a check post in Kangpokpi district, said Manipur police. The incident led to a heavy exchange of fire.
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.
Beware of camouflaged civilian trucks that resemble our vehicles: Assam Rifles
The AR has written to Manipur police alerting that “few Meitei miscreants” may use refurbished civilian trucks, which resemble vehicles used by the paramilitary force, for “anti-national activities”
‘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’.
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.
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.
Women’s bodies, disinformation and nationalism in Manipur
Sexual violence in conflict has a long and terrible history – and its combination with disinformation and nationalism in Manipur makes for an especially ominous mix.
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 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 violence: Several houses set on fire in Imphal, one person shot
The unrest continued after five people – three from the Meitei community and two from the Kuki-Zo community – were killed in the early hours of Saturday.
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.