Despite the selected targeting of the Hmar, Kuki, and Zomi tribes by the Meitei community, with the alleged support of state forces since May 2023, Manipur’s crisis has been reported in the media as ‘Meitei vs. Kuki/Kuki-Zo’ clash.  https://thewire.in/politics/manipur-how-misrepresentation-of-hmar-and-zomi-people-made-them-invisible-in-the-conflict 

In 1997, the continual imposition of Kuki identity on smaller tribes resulted in a large-scale conflict between the Kuki and Zomi, leading to death of hundreds, displacement of thousands, and impeding generational economic progress. This implies that self-identification of tribes must be seriously taken into account. 

by Suanmuanlian Tonsing

22/01/2025

 Manipur Unveiled: Untold Stories of Conflict, Courage, and Silence - Kashish Singh say it isnt ethnic violence it is a fight for natural resources..   https://youtu.be/-MIADGjfEIM?si=IzLy38whpadHKXty

She also talks about Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act amendments to give absolute powers to State.. As she saw palm cultivation in areas of Manipur. 

Re: Drill, baby, drill sentiment at the domestic front.

In the last 10 days, 10 people have lost their lives in the violence in Manipur, signalling significant reprisal of the strife in the northeastern state. Among those killed is a former serviceman. https://thewire.in/rights/manipur-violence-killings-internet-education 

The killings this time reflect the widespread nature of the unrest across the state.

The violence erupted on September 1, when bombs were thrown for the first time in the Koutuk Kadangband village. An alleged drone attack killed a woman and injured nine others, including an 11-year-old, igniting protests and further clashes, as people took to the streets.

The Manipur government suspended internet and mobile data services across the state from 3 pm on September 10, until 3 pm on September 15, 2024, citing concerns about the “spread of disinformation and rumours through social media”.

y. Ali

11/09/2024

Prime Minister Modi’s anathema for Manipur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLEpN2WLwr0 anto akkara
May 24, 2024
The nation is baffled by the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has not set foot in anarchic Manipur in a year. Modi who boasts about ‘great Indian democracy’ abroad remains deaf and dumb to the cries for restoration of normalcy and peace in Manipur. Modi who has made several trips to neighbouring Assam even went for an elephant safari on March 8 at Kazaringa National Park, over 200 kms from Manipur border without bothering to enter the simmering state. Is this the blunt message? “I don’t care” about Manipur.

https://thewire.in/communalism/ten-things-that-emerged-out-of-a-year-of-violence-in-manipur 

As per official records, the violence that broke out between the Kuki and the Meitei ethnic communities on May 3, 2023, has claimed 224 lives. At least 60,000 people in that border state have since been displaced; a large section of them still living in relief camps. Many have since fled their neighbourhood and escaped to Mizoram, Assam and Meghalaya. With the loss of home and hearth, the future of such Manipuris, needless to say, is caught in a haze.

Meanwhile, over the last 12 months, the line of division between the Kuki and the Meitei leadership has only widened. To the strident demand of the Kukis for a ‘separate administration’ for them, the Meiteis have a standard answer – no division of the state at any cost. They have conveyed this to New Delhi too. 

Meanwhile, the general elections in that beleaguered state were completed on April 19 and 26 without the participation of the Kukis. The violence unleashed by non-state actors, both in the Inner and the Outer Manipur parliamentary constituencies during the voting, and the demand of the opposition to the Election Commission of India for re-polls at dozens of booths have only held up the fact that what Manipur needed first was healing and a conducive environment for conducting a free and fair elections. 

by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharot

04/05/2024

 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

अभी अभी CJI चंद्रचूड का ऐतिहासिक एलान जल्दी देखो Am News Aug 27, 2023 Ravish Kumar on Manipur  and CJI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roiHK5IDJsI 27 Aug 2023.