Violence

In an unusually candid, interview, post-election results (June 4) to the Indian Express on June 9, CM Manipur N Biren Singh, accepting responsibility for the 12 month long targeted conflict in the state, admitted that both the Centre and State had not met public expectations; this admission came is after ten days of fresh bouts of violence, more displacements, loss of property, curfew, and an attack on his own, the CM’s advance convoy

In a statement marking one year of what it...

As Manipur’s ethnic conflict reaches a year since it started last summer, not much has changed in the state, violence rages on as people suffer in relief camps with little medicine, food, or privacy.

The death of two CRPF men in a blast has led to a sharp exchange between Kuki, tribal and Meitei organisations revealing the depth of the ethnic divide, even as the second days’ of polling on April 26 was marred by allegations of violence, tampering and bias

On the night of April 18. A day before the first phase Parliamentary election, 2024, house arsons by miscreants in the dark of night! This electoral violence took place in Assam's Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency raising questions of the conduct of a free and fair election.

As Calcutta and Bombay HCs grants permission for Ram Navami rallies, it balances the issue of freedom of expression and public safety; Bombay HC notes that action should be taken against speakers in case of breach of the law and order

Following the brutal killings becoming public, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) has condemned in the strongest terms the killing of two Kuki-Zo village volunteers “by central security forces;” the ITLF alleged that it was the central security forces who aided Meitei militants by firing and shelling tribal positions in Phailengmol area of Manipur's Kangpokpi district on April 13; meanwhile the Committee of Tribal Unity, a Kuki-Zomi group based in Kangpokpi district, called for a 24-hour shutdown in the district on Sunday.

Reports from the ground indicate that the culprits hurled the bomb from the top of a flyover and it landed in the courtyard of a mosque.

In a letter addressed to the Uttarakhand Governor, Lt. General Gurmit Singh, a CPI-M delegation has demanded an independent inquiry into the recent Haldwani violence and narrated details of their fact-finding conducted when they visited the affected areas on March 13.

Two killed and numerous injured after the Kuki-Zo community protests against what the call as the ‘unfair’ dismissal of a Kuki-Zo head constable.