Ethnic Clashes

The situation in Manipur has become a battle of narratives and it is important to stop the build-up of wrong narratives, Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said at an event today.

In a significant development in strife-torn Manipur, a section of MLAs of the ruling BJP and its allies has requested the Centre to take concrete steps that they have suggested in an eight-point memorandum.

The ethnic violence began in May 2023 between the valley-dominant Meitei community and the Kuki-Zo tribes, who are dominant in the hill districts of southern Manipur and a few other hill areas.

The Manipur ethnic violence began a year ago. To say "a year ago" is the strangest thing about the situation for a state that borders the troubled, junta-ruled Myanmar.

Fighters from a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group have seized control of a port town after more than two months of intense clashes with junta troops, they said.

At least 184 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mirzorm amid intense clashes between Myanmar army and ethnic armed group, sent back to their country on Monday.

More army personnel have crossed the border into Mizoram in the past two days as fighting continues between rebel forces in Myanmar and the junta-regime.

A total of 104 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mizoram during armed clashes with an ethnic insurgent group in the neighbouring country, have been sent back, an Assam Rifles official said on Wednesday.

Manipur made headlines for much of 2023 as it saw one of the worst ethnic conflicts between the Kuki and the Meitei communities, resulting in over 200 deaths and leaving nearly 60,000 people homeless.

After a dark Diwali, Christmas in Manipur will be a sorrowful event this year with a significant number of people having no resources to go to church. Thousands of internally displaced people in Manipur have been in relief camps for almost 8 months.

A mass burial is being held in Churachandpur, one of the hardest-hit districts in the ethnic violence that has gripped Manipur since May 3, for 87 people who were killed in the clashes.

Eight months after they were killed in ethnic violence in Manipur, the remains of 19 people belonging to the Kuki Zo community were laid to rest in the state's Kangpokpi district on Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Manipur government to apprise the Supreme Court-appointed committee of the steps taken to secure places of public worship in the state where ethnic clashes have claimed more than 170 lives since May.

Over 8 months after ethnic clashes shook Manipur, the unclaimed bodies of the victims of violence have been shifted from morgues in Imphal to districts in the state for proper burial, sources told NDTV today.

A Supreme Court-appointed committee on the Manipur crisis has found many troubling actions by civil society organisations (CSOs) that contributed to prolonged ethnic tensions on the ground.

The situation in Manipur has become a battle of narratives and it is important to stop the build-up of wrong narratives, Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said at an event today.

In a significant development in strife-torn Manipur, a section of MLAs of the ruling BJP and its allies has requested the Centre to take concrete steps that they have suggested in an eight-point memorandum.

The ethnic violence began in May 2023 between the valley-dominant Meitei community and the Kuki-Zo tribes, who are dominant in the hill districts of southern Manipur and a few other hill areas.

The Manipur ethnic violence began a year ago. To say "a year ago" is the strangest thing about the situation for a state that borders the troubled, junta-ruled Myanmar.

Fighters from a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group have seized control of a port town after more than two months of intense clashes with junta troops, they said.

At least 184 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mirzorm amid intense clashes between Myanmar army and ethnic armed group, sent back to their country on Monday.

More army personnel have crossed the border into Mizoram in the past two days as fighting continues between rebel forces in Myanmar and the junta-regime.

A total of 104 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mizoram during armed clashes with an ethnic insurgent group in the neighbouring country, have been sent back, an Assam Rifles official said on Wednesday.

Manipur made headlines for much of 2023 as it saw one of the worst ethnic conflicts between the Kuki and the Meitei communities, resulting in over 200 deaths and leaving nearly 60,000 people homeless.

After a dark Diwali, Christmas in Manipur will be a sorrowful event this year with a significant number of people having no resources to go to church. Thousands of internally displaced people in Manipur have been in relief camps for almost 8 months.

A mass burial is being held in Churachandpur, one of the hardest-hit districts in the ethnic violence that has gripped Manipur since May 3, for 87 people who were killed in the clashes.

Eight months after they were killed in ethnic violence in Manipur, the remains of 19 people belonging to the Kuki Zo community were laid to rest in the state's Kangpokpi district on Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Manipur government to apprise the Supreme Court-appointed committee of the steps taken to secure places of public worship in the state where ethnic clashes have claimed more than 170 lives since May.

Over 8 months after ethnic clashes shook Manipur, the unclaimed bodies of the victims of violence have been shifted from morgues in Imphal to districts in the state for proper burial, sources told NDTV today.

A Supreme Court-appointed committee on the Manipur crisis has found many troubling actions by civil society organisations (CSOs) that contributed to prolonged ethnic tensions on the ground.