Ethnic violence has engulfed India’s northeastern Manipur state since early May. More than 100 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced. India has deployed thousands of security personnel.
Manipur has suffered ethnic tension and conflicts involving armed separatist movements for decades. But now it’s experiencing its worst violence since the 1990s.
How did the 2021 coup in neighbouring Myanmar add to the tension?
And can New Delhi end the conflict?
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Hahahhaha when he said the ongoing problem is not within the prime minister’s domain… 😂😂😂😂😂😂 i am dead…..the audacity😂😂😂😂😂
Kuki narco terrorists immigrants from Myanmar causing turmoil in Manipur of India
There is no such history called Anglo kuki war . This kuki guy started this kind of misguided to the people to get indian citizen. This kuki people are refugee in manipur . But they want to get full gazetted indian citizen by making wrong history .
And you all know what????
PM is still in silent mode… Deaf and Blind on this civil war. I think he failed on his part… PR should come into action
Why our PM Mr modi is still silent…its more than a month bt still why he’s not saying anything regarding this????..if suppose there’s going to be a state general assembly election im sure he’ll be touring the state by now….how can we say he’s a people leader when so many people are dying….
Maybe our pm is playing a safe game by staying silence bcos next year its gonna be a General Election and any wrong move can cost him alot.
3rd of may solidarity march by all tribals..4th of may and the following days -mayhem and total chaos in imphal..churches were burned down,students were dragged out of their hostels,properties worth tens of crores destroyed and innocent people lost their lifes ..all this were inflicted towards a particular community(kuki-zo) .all this violence and atrocities ttowards a particular Ethnic groups is premeditated…
Manipuri vs illegal Narco Terrorist from Myamner
Mr Subir Bhowmik was on point on almost all angles related to the current Manipur situation.
The rest of the so called experts were parochial and displayed limited academic pedantry at best.
The Prime Minister needs to get involved immediately. Discussions are great but the need of the hour is for the Center, The Prime Minister to Speak up! Lives are lost, more will be lost.. This indifference kills Faith in a Country.. If the center can feel anything, intervene and do the Job they have been given.
Remove BJP from Manipur & half the problem gets solved period.
Let the court settle the other part of the dispute.
This isn’t complicated, they r just making it look complicated.
Sad situation.
Indian Public and Media doesn’t care until there is a Hindu Muslim angle..
Regarding the never ending violence in Manipur: This is shameful for entire India, how can we ever compete against China when we can’t even stop fighting each other? If the Government of India is NOT capable of policing its own territories, then let us invite the PLA to help us. May God bless China & India.
PLA = People’s Liberation Army (of China)
Regarding the never ending violence in Manipur: This is shameful for entire India, how can we ever compete against China when we can’t even stop fighting against each other? If the Government of India is NOT capable of policing its own territories, then let us invite the PLA to help us. May God bless China & India.
PLA = People’s Liberation Army (of China)
Lol indian government
Instigated for political gains
Our prime minister is on tour and his fans on fan following
Subhir Bhauumik, the irony is that atleast you were allowed to travel in Meitei areas whereas in no circumstances, you didn’t have either the guts to visit the kuki areas or you were not permitted to travel there. You can imagine the difference between two places – one where you can still visit in comparison to the other region where either you didn’t have the guts to visit or you were not allowed to visit.
Right wing a–holes are all the same, every country driven by right wing sentiments are sure to suffer, India is no exception.
I am afraid this will have a bad scar on Indian politics they blamed for conversion of hindus to christanity this may be also be cause to punish them
Yes.BJP is in power.
The state government has the full power to stop the ethnic violence but why so it is not possible.why thousands of ammunition and weapons have been received by the Imphal valley people it clearly identify that the state forces and the state government are all behind this conflicts.God knows everything may peace be bestowed in Manipur .
This happens when criminal become politician India’s wrost people is part of government
Whoever representing that kuki, he is a terrible liar. This violence is ignited due to many factors that are wrongdoings by kuki community
PM Modi visited Manipur only for poll campaigns 👻
Seal the boarder with Myanmar.. Half of the job will be done
Why nobody talk about this in Indian media??
Meitei militant and and meitei terorist are the main problems. But the meitei media are pointing fingers at kuki, the kuki are being oppressed by the meitei. Its not only meitei militant it is also identofy that the manipur force are too invovled and helped the meitei.
This journalist is already paid and bought by Kuki Militants. Not only this many more journalists and even the Indian army were also bought by Kuki militants. Sounds crazy but it’s true.
Mr Subir are you supporting NARCO Terrorism, sate government has the prove of poppy cultivation. The kuki insurgent group main income is poppy cultivation which is affected by the Manipur state government policies WAR ON DRUG & conservation Reserved Forest area NRC in the state . You don’t know one thing high cort order of Shedule Tribe was also fight at suprem court of India which the supremecourt the high court has the right to decide…
It is not just the 10 Kuki MLAs, but all the Kuki Insurgents outfits , their dream has been to create Kukiland from wherever possible wether it is India, Myanmar, Bangladesh. We will not let you to take a piece of land from Manipur.
This is the difference between QATAR and India . India is following Democratic system.. There is always Violence . In Qatar they follow the Ruler System ..No Political Party , No Free Speech , Strict and Hard law ..People follow law . In India we have thousands of Political Parties , No Control of Free Speech .No Strict law and action. , So We have strike , Violence . We Indian Must understand the root cause . In Qatar no one does Brain wash and converted them to Other Religion , In India We easily get converted and throw stone to our own people . Now Commenters must think We want a country like India or a peaceful country like Qatar. If we need a country like Qatar , We have to thrown the democracy in Dustbin. and Control religion convertion , Free Speech , Birth of Political parties , Ban Foreign NGO
Read Bhagavat GITA Chapter 1.30 to 1.44 ..When you change the Religion , Tradition , Family customs ..You will destroy peace in family and You will be a reason to destroy your state and country .. Thats happening in Manipur , Pakistan , Syria , Libya ..and entire African countries ..Now its spreading towards Europe German , France and UK
Caste system. Good luck india
Joker
Caste means the background your family comes from like it is not higher or lower it is about customs and different people
Like u have black and white
Will u call that caste
Please anyone eljitghned us with the number of victims died till now?
Bjp govt does not care india and indians they just care their votes and business, center and state bjp govt and modiji failed to unite indians and indian territories, its look like civil war in Manipur.
Just Start of Pure Hindu Country … Akhand Bharat.
We don’t want others…
Omg! Kuki militants use sniper n other sophisticated weapons while attacking the Meitei people n he is out there lying that sniper n mortar bombs r used against the kuki people.
He is the Prime Minister of the Country. What do you mean? It is his duty to see that the country is safe for everyone to live in. He is responsible for the growth of the country etc
Bhoumik Sir, i respect your innocence regarding the ongoing issue. Huge respect for all your dedications till date but to this conflict you have a shallow knowledge and informations. Please do visit Manipur to get the complete ground realities. Thank you.
It’s a failure of central government n state government. This Bengali guy has no idea about the ground reality.
If there are no alternative,they can plant poppy. Please don’t include such journalist in the discussion next time. He doesn’t have a single clue about the isssue,i repeat. The kuki militants attack us everyday n they act as the victims. Moreover,most of the kukis are refugees,illegal immigrants coming from Myanmar.
This time not free in india
For I was a son to my father,
caressed and unique in my mother’s eyes;
A genocide of Christians is unfolding in the Indian state of Manipur. More than 200 Churches have been burnt and 37 thousand people have been driven to forests.
We need to check the series of pattern that is leading.
First Peace Rally protesting against ST demand status by Meiteis organised by ATSUM on 3rd May 2023. Different tribal communities joined the Peace Rally. But only Kuki tribe involved in this violence started at Ccpur ( kuki dominated area). But unfortunately they Blame the Meiteis so that they can gain the sympathy from different stakeholders just to Realise their long dream of Kuki Homeland in the name of Seperate Administration ( their primary objective).
Is this logical? Peace Rally ( with AK47) against ST demand by Meiteis and now Seperate Administration. See the pattern. It’s leading to a well Pre Plan. Internet is band since 4th May till date but if you checked the statistics of how many Kukis and Meiteis are active in social media platforms you will be surprised.
1. Poppy Cultivation
2. Forest Land Encroachment
3. Illegal armed militants/civilians
4. Narco Terrorism.
Kindly check the pattern since the very beginning of this ongoing Violence. Need to find out the Truth.
@Al Jazeera news.
Be it Meitei or Kuki, the culprits or miscreants needs to be crack down to restore Peace and Harmony in the State ASAP 🕊️
Mr Haokip less in knowledge
Even indians dont about this
Democracy prob oppressed people and so uprising
4 horse men
Thanks to Sir Ngamjahao Kipgen
Indian media : 🤐
Its da bjp government dat has da problem in india.. they are targeting da disturbing place of northeast.. which s Manipur.. n da soldiers n arm force RAF who are playing games.. instead of securing da people n bringing peace. They are 1 who are playing tik tok violence n Manipur. Tears of innocence lives will follow to tos who are doing wrong.
Few points, if it was not for forest eviction drive then why did they start the violence by burning the forest department first situated in Churachandpur.
And then again where is the proof that meitei community start the violence by burning the Anglo kuki war gate. The only thing we can see is the other war around.
Since the blocked of the national highways in Manipur, how many drugs trafficking have been caught in past few days by Mizoram police.
Its increasing.
Also, there are footage of their so called villagers using M16, Sniper rifles and even hosting the flag of Zomi Revolutionary Front at their bunkers. Villagers can’t defend themselves from assualt rifle with catapult.
Too many conspiracy is going around and in every angle Meiteis are the one who is feeling left behind by their own state govt and Central govt including the army and paramilitary personnel who is their to protect us.
Request to please keep politics asides and start on a positive way to end this violence and news media have a very important role in bringing out one.
The JNU so called Professor sounds biased and also doesn’t understand ground realities
India is a very peaceful nation after 2014 and this is propoagenda of foreign powers and congress and Nehru the first PM of India. PM Modi and His administration doesn’t have any responsibility towards such violent issues their ideology is to get away silently like their ideals Savarkar and Godse
Save northeast india🇮🇳…. BJP RSS is killing the minorities tribals…. Save the tribals
Hindus are killing Christians….. BJP real 😈 inside
He’s paka 🕉️hindu….. Fake bold head
Western especially u s media starting with trump ending with Putin thanks al zaseera
Why this Subir in panel when it is about Manipur? He knows nothing of ground reality.
Bharat ka dnagaa….. India world guru ..in modi era …..worst PM in history 1:25
It’s a shame India is the only country with religious and communal violence in the world. Always the parties and politicians look for their votes and their election benefits , do they care so many citizens life.Protest, rallies bloodshed? This is become daily games for them to Watch citizens dying. If all tribals were given equal rights, equal seats , there would have been no violence or death in Manipur. Who is responsible for the deaths of so many citizens? Wether Christian, Muslim or Hindu all are humans and have their fly.
Education doesn’t change your inner core of communalism and bigotry.
Separate Administration is the only solution
Home minister Amit Shah also failed here, he should resign from his post.
Thanks for showing what Indian media is not showing.
What Mr haokip said is a blatant lie, sniper mortart and sophisticated weapons are used by kuKi militants not the meitei nor the indian state police. This is misleading.
Not only Kukis of Myanmar fled to Manipur, Meitei of Myanmar fled to Manipur in thousands.
Why is Meitei refugees not reported like the Kuki refugees?
It all started with the CM of manipur ‘s ‘War against drug’ campaign by cutting down poppy fields for months, destroying houses in government area, reserved forest both in valley and hills, eviction of illegal immigrants. Coincidentally during all these events the High court of manipur suggested the manipur Government to submit the demand of ST status of Meitei to central government. Taking advantage of these on 3rd of May both nagas and kukis together held a peace rally all over Manipur against meitei ST demand, which was held peacefully in all other places except in a meitei village near ccpur called torbung and moreh(both kuki dominated area). The so called peace rally soon turned voilent when kukis started attacking using AK 47 and other weapons (video can be found in social media a millitants carrying weapon) they started burning and killing People in torbung and moreh. Many meitei houses were burnt and many ran for their life, many elderly who couldn’t run stayed back only to be tortured and burnt alive . Meiteis retaliated by doing the same to kuki houses in the valley. Both sides sustained damage. But on 27,28 may , unknown millitants wearing lungri came and attack all at once in many places like sugnu, serou, phayeng, bishempur, napet, kangpokpi. These attacks now were led by millitants by Myanmar along with powerful kukis in manipur ( mla,ips, soo millitants), they were angry at CM Biren because he burnt down their poppy. The drug lord narco terrorist were now killing innocent civilians. The army and police did not help, So Meitei had no choice but to steal weapons from police to defend themselves. Only after when the CM of Manipur announced the these kuki millitants were terrorist, the manipur police joined. The kukis, most of them drug lords including nemcha kipgen( a mla who is also the wife of a kuki millitants organization) are now trying to hide the fact about the involvement of Myanmar militants by telling the media lies after lies. But the Myanmar millitants involvement along with ITLF( indigenous tribal leaders forum) were proven when their drone was shot down. They were surveilling the area of sugnu, where the millitants attacked. The peace rally which started by saying that Meitei cannot be given ST has now turned into a demand of kuki seperate state. Their agenda was all pre planned from the beginning to get a seperate state and to continue with their narco terrorist trade. So now we want
1) NRC to be implemented to drive away illegal immigrant
2) to abort Suspension of SOO for this narco terrorist
3) to punish all kuki leaders who were involved in this pre-planned war
The Meitei professor Sir Bhagat spoke the real truth and how things started. Every national n international media is now covering the Manipur news with half baked knowledge n not revealing how it all started on 3rd May. Who started it. But thankfully slowly things are coming out now. And kuki playing victim cards will be exposed badly in coming days
BTW Every time Kukis r asked abt their narco terrorisms, illegal kuki chin immigration from Myanmar n Bangladesh, the role of their kuki militants and armed civil society groups like ITLF etc, they will have only 2 excuses
Araaambai n Meitei Leeepun 😂 is the new urban legend for the kukis
This is all because of the ruling government Divide and rule policy
The fact of the matter is — since it’s north east, the heartland is ignorant and doesn’t care much. You would have see the difference in handling the matter be it UP or Gujarat. Sad state of affairs.
May Christ help the people of Manipur to gain their freedom!
Its not clash between Meiteis and Kukis of Manipur. Its war between illegal kuki immigrants militants from Myanmar and Meiteis of Manipur.
The whole issue is for land. Getting the status of ST means automatically to get the position of land , which is now in demand everywhere.
Kukis should speak the truth. Kuki war memorial is made of iron . Only blaming Meitei will not prove you right. On 3 May when kuki Militants joined the rally carrying arms and started burning down the houses of Meiteis staying in Churachandpur then only violence occurred. Without knowing the ground realities no one should blame the Meitei.
This is definitely Modi and BJP fault with their hate and intolerance politics, people of India should vote Modi out he is destroying the nation.
BJP/RSS is funding a Christian pogrom in the north east India in the garb of local differences.
Not the comment section filled with kukis with their twisted narrative of how they were organising peace rally when the meiteis attacked. Can this stop already when the whole nation has come know by who and who institagated this violence? Coming out with guns and wearing bullet proofs in the the kukis so called ‘peace rally’. And then started burning meitei villages and when the meitei retaliated you have the audacity to play the minority victim card. Do you actually think the meiteis will sit back and watch with arms folded when they are being attacked and killed? Did the kukis not think about the consequences when they instigated this violence?
If kukis do not condemn the violence instigated by their own community then you have no right to condemn when the same is commited towards you by the other. The hypocrisy should stop.
Best anchor ever
Why Manipur isn’t a separate country? To. Bring peace in the region for both sides.
India have occupied this region same way Indian blamed China in occupying Tibet.
Meitei population is jus 0.1% of the India’s population… Dont u think we deserve protection? We have all rights to fight for our protection.. & we have all the rights to do so
Its funny how Mr. Haokip here tries to point the issue as meitei vs tribal. For information to other viewers Manipur is inhabited by many tribals and till day we have been peacefully coinhabiting. The present violence is between meitei and kuki only(kuki who are and have been in conflict with many other communities of other states in North eastern India too) Dont drag the whole tribal tag here just to get your minority victim card at play. Kukis and their expertism at twisting narrative.
North East is always neglected by centres , This time it’s clear Failures of PM and HM . They r busy visiting abroad, doing election rallies . Such a shameful activity.
The communal cauldron is left to boil over for a political game plan by the ruling regime. It is by setting one community against another one faith against the other the regime is playing with fire. Obviously the regime has lost moral mandate to cling to power. Communal hysteria must not be their pattern of political behavioir
In a multi lingual multi religious country like India mjoritarian autocracy and arrogance is a sure recipe for internal disintegration jeosrdising the rhythm of mutual trust and co operation To save the nation we must invoke the the spirit of Gandhi the spirit of love and nonviolenceThere is no other option
Maitis should have right to purchase land in any part of Manipur. The injustice to Maitis should be immediately addressed. Poppy cultivation should not be justified by Kuki tribals😮
The Indian government has been ignoring and neglecting the situation and ratter they are adding fuel to the situation, this government has only agent that’s communal violence and hatred … This is not the first time North East India has been always neglected and the national media hardly covers any news of this region… Thanks @Aljazeera for covering it
The prime minister has been missing from the situation
Manipur violence is because of Bjp Government.. since this Corrupt government came there us violence nobody can stay in peace.. because the Bjp mantra is divide n rule.. we got independence from the British but they left the mantra of divide rule with the Bjp n Rss.. wake up India we need peace n divide n rule ..Vote Congress n make India Secular..Jai Hind..
Kukis out here calling Arambai Tengol and meitei leepun as militant organization, terrorists, etc etc when their own militants are the one terrorizing meitei villages and killing innocent lives. Kukis and their Double standards at its best.
Manipur resembles Nineveh and Syria.
The govtment just pretending that they are they are trying to bring peace in Manipur They won’t stop untill they kill all Christian
There is no fault of the Indian government in this because the fighting between two tribes in Manipur is happening only for reservation.
where there’s riot there’s BJP