NEW DELHI: One person was killed and three others wounded in a fresh wave of violence in India’s troubled region Manipur on Thursday. According to Western media, the new violence was reported from Kangvei area of the violence-hit region. The opposition parties in the region accused the Indian central government and Home Minister Amit Shah of failure to stop ethnic violence and deadly clashes in the region.
India: Fresh Violence Leaves 1 Dead in Violence-hit Manipur
According to BBC, fresh reports of violence against women were reported from the violence-hit Indian state of Manipur, as the response to a viral video showing women being paraded naked by a crowd encourages many other women to speak. BBC reported that a woman of the Kuki tribe could not find the courage to register a complaint with the police as she disclosed that her 18-year-old daughter had been kidnapped from their house, gang-raped, and then left very badly beaten at their house’s entrance.
The woman told BBC that the perpetrators threatened to kill her daughter if she disclosed it. She said that now she wants justice and punishments for the culprits.
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19-year-old Chiin Sianching told the British media that she and her friend were singled out for belonging to the Kuki tribe and assaulted in the hostel they lived in Imphal. She added that they were dragged out to the street and beaten unconscious and the mob ran away as the crowd thought that “We were dead”. She added that the latter police found their bodies and realized that they were alive.
Earlier, a mob paraded naked two women in the violence-hit northeastern state of Manipur. The police said they had opened a case of gang rape and have also arrested a man, adding that others will also be held soon after a video showed two women being paraded naked by a mob.
Police said the assault on the women took place on May 4, but it made national headlines on Thursday after the video started going viral on social media.
Manipur state has been badly hit by violence, and more than 130 have died and 60,000 have been displaced since ethnic clashes started between the Meitei and Kuki communities in May.
