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Mobs in hostels, guards outnumbered: How Assam Rifles rescued 200 girl students at Manipur varsity

Sitting on a hillock in Manipur University, an Assam Rifles camp overlooks the Imphal valley, its view foregrounded with at least six student hostels. The university roads and hostels below are mostly empty – a sharp contrast from the chaos which engulfed the campus nearly three months ago.

Newslaundry

Manipur reports fresh violence, 15 houses torched, 1 person shot

In Manipur's Imphal West district, fifteen houses were set on fire in a mob rampage on August 5.

The Hindu

Armoury looted, policeman killed in separate incidents in Manipur

Police foil attempt to loot weapons in Imphal, 1 Manipur Rifles personnel killed in separate incidents. Mob loots armoury in Bishnupur, over 4,000 weapons looted in ethnic violence.

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Security intensified as tribal forum plans mass burial of 35 bodies in Manipur

The bodies, including that of three women, are currently at the Churachandpur District Hospital.

The Hindu

Manipur violence: 53 bodies – mostly Kukis – lie unclaimed at two Imphal hospitals

Nearly three months into the ethnic violence in Manipur, at least 53 dead bodies – mostly all belonging to the Kuki community – lie unclaimed at two district hospitals in Imphal East and West, sources at the state health department and district administrations told Newslaundry. Officials said three or four…

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‘Empty-handed, desperate flight through forests’: Kuki-Zomis on encountering mobs, fleeing to Nagaland

It was around 5.30 pm in Kohima. Already dark, the electricity too had just gone off. The light from the firewood ablaze in one corner of the kitchen faintly revealed a pot cooking on top. A crying toddler clung to his father’s legs as he moved around the dark room.…

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10,000 children in 350 Manipur relief camps; stress-relief sessions on

Among the displaced are an estimated 10,000 children and adolescents distributed in 350 relief camps in violence-hit Manipur. Read more details on The Hindu

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‘Are we not Indians?’: In Imphal, thousands join march to demand normalcy

Amid intensified clashes between Kuki and Meitei groups, thousands of people – most of them Meitei women activists and some from Naga groups – took to the streets in Imphal on Saturday, to demand government action to restore normalcy in the state.

Newslaundry

Manipur Violence: MPs from opposition alliance INDIA reach Imphal to assess ground situation

On Sunday morning, the delegation will meet Governor Anusuiya Uikey at Raj Bhawan to discuss the ongoing situation and possible measures to bring peace in Manipur. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Manipur ethnic violence | In an armed conflict, the war on women

A ground report on the horrifying sexual violence against Kuki-Zomi women by majoritarian Meiteis in Manipur’s ethnic clashes

The Hindu

39 babies born in 90 days: Grief and comfort at Manipur’s only relief camp for pregnant women

Within the varicoloured walls of the Khuman Lampak Sports Complex in Imphal, a handful of pregnant women huddle together. Wearing the traditional phanek over their kurtas, they’re discussing the news of the day – attacks in the border district of Moreh, cross-firing in Bishnupur, and the larger disruptions that have…

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Manipur village caught in cross-fire: Bombings through the night, teen critically injured

About 40 km from Imphal, Phougakchao village in Manipur’s Bishnupur district has been witness to rampant firing and bombing from the neighbouring Kuki-dominated hills, which intensified this week. On July 25, an 18-year-old boy Lonjam Naocha Singh got severely injured by shrapnel as a bomb cracked through the roof of…

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‘Cops said it would be war if we go to find them’: In Imphal, families wait for 2 teens, ‘dead or alive’

“On the first floor, three rooms are under construction. One of them was for my son. Construction was recently stopped due to lack of construction material. I don’t know who would occupy the room now,” said Phijam Ibungobi Singh, who retired as additional superintendent of police (wireless) last year, at…

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‘His body is still in the morgue’: Two months later, Kuki woman on her brother’s murder

On May 4, when Letminthang Haokip telephoned his sister Kim from Imphal, she immediately knew something was wrong.

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Union Minister R.K. Ranjan Singh’s house in Manipur attacked again; students take out peace rally

Protestors threw stones at the Imphal residence of Union minister R.K. Ranjan Singh demanding that he speak in Parliament, while students of Manipur University took out a rally during the day

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There won't be any movement towards peace in Manipur till N. Biren Singh remains CM: Congress

The Congress’ attack came over a media report that claimed that an 18-year-old woman, who was abducted, assaulted and gang-raped in Manipur’s Imphal East district on May 15, approached the police on July 21, after which a zero FIR was registered.

The Hindu

FIR reveals horrific killing of Manipur youth

This was among the first instances of brutality in Manipur’s ongoing ethnic conflict, details of some of which are surfacing only now. Read more on The Hindu

The Hindu

Imphal civil society body COCOMI writes to European Parliament on Manipur

The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity, COCOMI, an umbrella body of Imphal Valley-based civil society organisations has asked the European Parliament not to let Manipur become the “new Golden Triangle” of the drug trade by projecting the violence between “immigrant Chin-Kuki narco-terrorists” and the indigenous Meitei people in the northeastern…

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DCW chief to go ahead with Manipur visit

DCW chief Swati Maliwal on July 23 said she will be going to strife-torn Manipur despite the State government allegedly denying her permission for the visit.

The Hindu

Kuki women students of Manipur University recount horror of targeted attack by mob

Mob brandishing sticks and knives shouted slogans, forced female students out of rooms and verbally abused them. 4 women Ph.D. scholars cowered in toilet for 6 hrs. Assam Rifles rescued them and took to police campus. Victims fear retribution, refuse to file FIRs.

The Hindu

As tensions rise, Meiteis forced to leave Mizoram

Sources said the N. Biren Singh government was making arrangements to airlift settlers in Mizoram from Sunday morning to avoid road travel. Read more on The Hindu

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Morning Digest | More cases of women being assaulted surface in Manipur; Law Minister shares data on social background of High Court judges

Morning Digest, July 22, 2023 | PM Modi absent from Parliament, Opposition protests; 2 more cases of women assault in Manipur; Assam Rifles files sedition case against Imphal civil society group; Jaishankar pays tribute to Abe; Law Minister shares data on social background of High Court judges; IUML MP writes…

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More cases of women being assaulted surface in Manipur

In Manipur, ethnic violence has led to a series of horrific crimes against women, including disrobing, parading naked, rape, and murder. On May 6, a 45-year-old woman was stripped and set ablaze in Imphal East. On May 4, two women were raped, tortured, and murdered in Imphal East.

The Hindu

Assam Rifles files sedition case against Imphal civil society group

Assam Rifles registers case of sedition, defamation against Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity for call to not surrender weapons; FIR registered at Churachandpur police station; COCOMI had demanded Assam Rifles be replaced with other police force; criminal case registered against Imphal-based politician for alleging Assam Rifles protecting Kuki terrorists.

Al Jazeera

Outrage in India over video of Manipur women paraded naked, raped

Incident happened on May 4, a day after deadly riots broke out between Meitei and Kuki-Zo tribes in the remote state.

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