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Manipur Panel Began Identifying Immigrants 5 Weeks Before Clashes Began In May 2023

December 10, 2024 admin

Proposed site of shelter home at Holenphai village, Tengnoupal, Manipur, on March 26, 2023 Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Five weeks before the Manipur ethnic clashes began in May 2023, a cabinet subcommittee comprising ministers from the three major communities visited three villages to make an assessment of the situation on “identification of Myanmarese immigrants/refugees”, reports submitted by…

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After 6 Of Family Killed In Manipur Jiribam Massacre, Survivors Seek Death Penalty For Kuki Militants

December 7, 2024 admin

Family members of six people from the Meitei community killed in Jiribam address the press in Delhi New Delhi: Family members of six people from the Meitei community including three children who were kidnapped and killed in Manipur’s Jiribam narrated what they called the “horror” of November 11. Telem Uttam Singh, who lost his two…

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Manipur Government Attempt To Reopen Public Transport Hits Kuki Roadblock

December 5, 2024 admin

Manipur’s attempt to restart public transport between hill and valley areas failed (File) Imphal/Guwahati: Civil society groups of Manipur’s Kuki tribes in Kangpokpi called a shutdown of the district after the Manipur government announced public buses would run from the state capital Imphal till this district, and towards Bishnupur and Churachandpur. Members of the Kuki…

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Meitei Group Slams Ex Official GK Pillai Who Steered Controversial Suspension Of Operations SoO Agreement With Kuki Militants In Manipur

November 30, 2024 admin

Former Union home secretary GK Pillai has experience with northeast issues Imphal/New Delhi: An influential civil society group of the Meitei community in Manipur has criticised comments by former Union home secretary GK Pillai in an article, in which he called for a criminal case to be filed against Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh….

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Hit My Face With Butt Of Gun, Manipur Boy, 14, Recalls Mother’s Kidnapping In Jiribam

November 29, 2024 admin

The two brothers, 12 and 14 years old, hid in fields during the attack by “Kuki militants” Imphal/New Delhi: Two minor siblings who hid in fields during an attack by “Kuki militants” in Manipur’s Jiribam district on November 11 have given details of what they saw that day. The elder of the two said he…

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Focus On Drugs Threat To Mizo Society, Don’t Pass Unwarranted Comments On Others, Says Manipur Government To Zoramthanga’s MNF

November 28, 2024 admin

Mizoram has reported many cases of drug trafficking in the last one year Imphal: The Manipur government has strongly criticised the “constant meddling in the internal affairs” of the violence-hit state by the Mizo National Front (MNF), a Mizoram-based political party led by a former chief minister who was defeated in the last assembly election….

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Autopsy Reveals Chilling Details Of Meitei Family Kidnapped, Killed By Kuki Militants In Manipur

November 24, 2024 admin

Six members of the Meitei family who were executed by Kuki militants in Manipur Imphal/New Delhi: The last photograph of L Chingkheinganba Singh, 3, whose partially decomposed body was found in a river in Manipur’s Jiribam district, shows five other family members including his infant sibling and mother sitting together in a forested area. Chingkheinganba…

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If CRPF Was Not Deployed, What Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh Said On Jiribam Terror Attack By Suspected Kuki Militants

November 21, 2024 admin

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh speaks to NDTV in Imphal Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) timely intervention during a “terror attack” in Manipur’s Jiribam district prevented the loss of several lives, Chief Minister N Biren Singh told NDTV on Thursday. Mr Singh said “10 Kuki terrorists” tried to enter a relief…

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Manipur Chief Minister vs P Chidambaram On Militancy

November 19, 2024 admin

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh shows an old photo of Congress’s P Chidambaram Imphal/New Delhi: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today blamed “some vested interests” for reigniting a new cycle of violence in the state, after having been relatively peaceful for three-four months, and criticised Congress leader P Chidambaram as someone who “created…

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Headless Body Of 2-Year-Old Meitei Hostage, Grandmother Killed By Suspected Kuki Militants Found In Manipur River

November 17, 2024 admin

Headless body of the two-and-half-year old child executed by suspected Kuki militants Guwahati/New Delhi: For Laisharam Herojit, a relief camp inmate from the Meitei community in Manipur’s Jiribam district, the worst fears have come true – his family has been executed. Mr Herojit, in an almost inaudible, slow voice, told NDTV on phone from Jiribam,…

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