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Two killed in fresh violence in Manipur

Heavy exchange of fire was reported in the Khoirentak area on the boundary of the Churachandpur and Bishnupur districts.

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After 3 Meiteis killed, town now in crosshairs of Manipur conflict

In small town Kwakta, though located in the Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district, almost 85 per cent of its estimated 13,500 voters are Muslim Meitei Pangals; around 1,500 are Meiteis; and there are just around 15 Kuki-Zomi houses in Ward 8 of the Kwakta municipal council area.

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Manipur violence case | Supreme Court sets up panel of 3 women ex-judges to oversee humanitarian measures

The top court also indicated that it will appoint senior Maharashtra cadre IPS officer Dattatray Padsalgikar, who had served in the NIA, IB and Nagaland, to monitor the overall investigation of cases registered during the violence.

thehindu.com/news/national/sc-

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Manipur violence: Several houses set on fire in Imphal, one person shot

The unrest continued after five people – three from the Meitei community and two from the Kuki-Zo community – were killed in the early hours of Saturday.

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Feminist icons or violent vigilantes? The contentious role of Meira Paibis in Manipur’s conflict

Celebrated for long as the torchbearers of Manipur, Meitei women groups now stand accused of blocking the army and egging on violence against Kuki-Zo women.

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Can’t be a five-trillion dollar economy at cost of rivers of blood flowing in North-East

At the heart of the conflict are a disenchanted peoples, Kuki-Zo, Nagas and Meiteis and a society torn asunder by the cynical politics of the ‘double engine sarkar’, writes Rupa Chinai.

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FIR reveals horrific killing of Manipur youth

The Kuki-Zo youth, who was arrested for sharing a post on CM Biren Singh, was being taken from court to jail on May 4, when a mob of around 800 men and women intercepted the police vehicle, dragged him out and beat him to death; NHRC records case as custodial death, issues notices.

thehindu.com/news/national/whe

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More cases of women being assaulted surface in Manipur

After the video of the Thoubal incident, a photo of a woman’s charred body is now in circulation; 10 Manipur legislators issue statement mentioning at least four other incidents of rape or murder.

thehindu.com/news/national/wom

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Seventy-Nine Days After Violence Broke Out, Narendra Modi Finally Talks About Manipur

Even now, though, he refused to comment on Manipur alone – and brought up two Congress-ruled states which have seen no similar scale of violence of late in the very same sentence.

thewire.in/politics/seventy-ni

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