Divide within Manipur police is impeding combing ops to retrieve looted arms. DGP says 'black sheep are everywhere but that doesn’t mean policing will become ineffective'.
Military reinforcements, Amit Shah’s visit, and CM Biren Singh’s pleas for peace have come to nought in Manipur, where there is still no end in sight to the violent ethnic conflict.
Arms were looted from police premises over the course of May in multiple locations in Manipur. A massive combing operation has now begun to recover the weapons.
Kuki villagers claim commandos leading attacks along with Meitei armed group. Meiteis deny these claims. Footage seen by ThePrint doesn't show commandos shooting or burning down houses.
A nursing student, construction worker, and petrol pump employee said they were singled out and attacked by mobs after 3 May Manipur clashes. One is still in ICU, others are badly injured.
The development took place late evening when the crowd, comprising Meitei people, began pelting stones at the residence of MP, who is from the same community.
Observers say movement of Kukis out of Meitei areas, and vice versa, an impractical solution to the differences that culminated in violence in Manipur this month.
State authorities bulldozed Kuki settlement of K. Songjang on 20 Feb because it purportedly encroached on protected forest land, but incident fuelled a series of protests and conflict.
Many residents of Manipur villages where Kukis and Meiteis lived close to each other are trying to make sense of the violence that erupted on 3 May, which left around 60 people dead.
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