NEW DELHI: Local officials have said that as many as ten people were wounded in fresh clashes between the protestors and police in different parts of Imphal in Manipur, India, Western media reported on Thursday.
According to media reports, a complete curfew has been imposed in the Imphal West and Imphal East districts after the fresh wave of violence in the violence-hit Manipur. A large number of protestors vandalized and burned the house of a local Police official Ingoucha Singh in the Imphal West district.
India’s Violence-hit Manipur
On September 8, in a tragic turn of events, Indian security forces in Manipur resorted to tear gas and gunfire to disperse a gathering of approximately 500 individuals. The incident resulted in the loss of one life and left 20 others wounded, police said. A police official revealed that several paramilitary personnel also sustained injuries during the confrontation.
Similarly, On September 4, a group of nearly 20 independent United Nations human rights experts, including the Special Rapporteurs on violence against women and girls and torture, issued a condemnation, expressing serious concerns about the “slow and inadequate response” by Narendra Modi-led Indian government, including law enforcement agencies, in addressing reported rights violations, including sexual violence and hate speech, during deadly ethnic clashes in the remote northeastern state of Manipur.
The world is also in extreme anger and a strong feeling of unhappiness after a mob paraded naked two women in the violence-hit northeastern state of Manipur in July. The police said they had opened a case of gang rape and had arrested a man after a video showed two women being paraded naked by a mob.
As per Western media reports more than 200 people have been killed while more than 60,000 have been forced to flee their areas for safer places since the clashes broke out between the two ethnic groups on May 3.
