Manipur Violence

 The sensitive border state of Manipur completed one year of violence on Friday, May 3. During this period, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not paid even a single visit to the crisis-ridden state but has had the time to make 162 official and non-official visits to various other states in the country. https://thewire.in/politics/narendra-modi-manipur-miss-trips-states-abroad 

04/05/2024

'Nothing has changed over the last six months. The Meiti extremists have started attacking the Kuki people in Moreh again...[But] at least back then, the Kukis could run to the army camps. Now, they are forced to stay in the forest and have no place to reside,' said an activist.

https://thewire.in/rights/modiji-silence-is-not-always-golden-protesters-say-if-kukis-lose-indian-democracy-will-lose-too 

On asking what has changed over the last six months in Manipur, Mary Grace, one of the founders of the Kuki-Zo Women’s Group, told The Wire, “Nothing has changed. The Meiti extremists have stopped the violence for a while to reorganise and train themselves, and now they have started attacking the Kuki people in Moreh again, the same way they did in Imphal valley six months ago.”

by Rohit Kumar

06/11/2023

The fact-finding report said that thanks to the breakdown of communication due to the net ban, journalists effectively had to follow the government narrative, which under Biren Singh "became a narrow ethnic one playing up to the biases of the majority Meitei community." https://thewire.in/media/editors-guild-fact-finding-report-manipur-media-meitei-biren-internet 

A three-member team comprising Seema Guha, Bharat Bhushan and Sanjay Kapoor were in the state from August 7 to 10. Their 24-page ‘Report of the fact-finding mission on media’s reportage of the ethnic violence in Manipur’ also notes how certain media practices led to the vilification of the security forces.

02/09/2023