We, the Bodies of Women
What is the reason behind the beauty-beast combination in the body of a woman? We all want to look beautiful, who does not? We are beautiful in our ways and…
Manipur Violence
What is the solution to Manipur Imbroglio?
Statements of Mizoram CM Lalduhoma made some time back in the United States calling for unification of Kukis, unjustly divided under three different Governments of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, under…
Manipur:For Meitei-Kuki Peace
The violence which shows no sign of abating in the ongoing Meitei-Kuki conflict in Manipur is a matter of concern. The alienation of the two communities and hatred generated for each…
Nightwatch
Men with weapons—some standing tall and some inside their official vehicles murmuring something on their wireless phones; some women with kids tied up on their shoulders—some chewing beetle nuts and…
Binary Division of the Indian State, The Root Cause of Manipur Violence: Dr. Angomcha Bimol Akoijam
by Dr. Angomcha Bimol Akoijam/ A K Shiburaj Dr. Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, hailing from Imphal, Manipur, is an Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University's School of Social Sciences and a…
Ethnic clashes in Manipur the making of N Biren Singh, says J Doungel
Prof. Jangkhongam Doungel finished his graduation with Honours in Political Science at Patkai Christian College, Nagaland in 1993. He obtained his M.A. (Political Science) with First Class, 3’rd Position in…
Do we have to wait till the next conflict between another set of ethnic groups before Kuki-Meitei strife fades?
Over the past one year Manipur has been witness to Meitei-Kuki conflict like nowhere seen even among Hindu-Muslim communities. Even if you may have totally segregated Hindu and Muslim residential…
On the One Year of State-Manufactured Conflict in Manipur
On 3rd May 2024, it has been a year since the genocidal violence in Manipur has started, and it has continued to intensify across the year. As of 1st May…
Under Modi, the Northeast Is More United With India, but More Divided Within
In March, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, said at an election rally in Arunachal Pradesh that previous governments had not cared for states that sent only two representatives to the…
Hashtag Manipur: Big Brother is (not) watching you!
A Commentary on Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent Nandita Haksar, New Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 2023, pages – 260. Among many facets…
PUCL to Constitute an `Independent Citizen’s Tribunal on Manipur’
PUCL[1] has been deeply concerned over the state of continuing violence in Manipur ever since 3rd May, 2023, when the first incident of ethnic conflict broke out. The violence which…
Targeted attacks on 3 renowned HRDs in the State of Manipur
Three Human Rights Defenders who are renowned in the state of Manipur and known for their activism have been targeted by the state, and this amounts to a violation of…
Manipur needs healing touch and Trust building – Not AFSPA
That the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has been extended to the hill areas for more time, while the valley and a part of the state which has border…
The Ethnic Violence in Manipur, India, Explained
The ethnoreligious violence in the Indian state of Manipur between Meiteis and Kukis has been ongoing since May, but it was only in July 2023 when a video went viral…
Manipur: a statement of concern and suggestions for peaceful resolution
Vikalp Sangam Core Group's response to the Manipur crisis is based on the fundamental principles of peace and of the wellbeing of all people and of the earth and all its…
Withdraw The FIR Filed Against The Editor’s Guild of India Members: PUCL
The PUCL strongly condemns the two motivated and malicious FIRs filed by the Manipur police against 3 members of a Fact-Finding Team constituted by the Editors Guild of India, Seema…
FIR Against Editors Guild of India on Manipur: Some Facts
An FIR has been filed against three journalists who represented the Editors Guild of India (EGI) to document the ground situation in Manipur, including the role of the media, as…
Manipur- A story spanning 1,990 years
Tribal Kangleipak to Hindu Manipur Meitei people treasure their past, and ‘Kangleipak’ is their name for their ancient civilization. The chronicle of the Ningthouja dynasty of Manipur [Ref.1] records the…
Violence in Manipur Has at its Root A Battle for Natural Resources: Nanditha Haksar
Nandita Haksar is a human rights lawyer, teacher, campaigner and writer. Her engagement with the people of Northeast India began while studying in Jawaharlal Nehru University in the 1970s. She…
Modi Sidesteps Manipur in His Speech: Bring Peace Now!
It was clear that Narendra Modi wont reply to the question which are being asked but he has brought Airforce into his politics is utterly shameful and distortion of facts.…
Need to restore Harmony and Peace: Manipur, Nuh and Shooting in Train
The country is witnessing horrific violence in different regions. The Manipur violence, going on for over three months as it has shamed the nation for the treatment meted out to…
Manipur and Haryana: The Courts Step In, A Welcome Development
When we all were suffering from the fatigue of inactions in the court rooms and Manipur is not really being discussed in Parliament, orders of Country's top court on Manipur…
Gang rape as symbol of India’s political culture
The horrifying video clips showing Manipuri women being stripped and raped, followed …
Hello!… Manipur is still burning! Is there anyone in charge?
It has been almost three months since the State of Manipur in India has been in flames. The latest news reports speak about 140 or…
13th edition of #VoicesofManipur
Read here personal experiences of the humanitarian crisis in #Manipur. Also in this edition some photos from the many protests and marches that have happened across India, in solidarity with…
Cry Out For Manipur:Stop Killing Christians in India
Speech at rally for Manipur in Congressman Ro Khanna's district https://youtu.be/HawRq6WV1J0 The ongoing violence in Manipur is the worst pogrom in the nine years of the Modi regime’s rule over…
PUCL’s Demands regarding the Manipur crisis
Accountability 1. PUCL strongly condemns the use of sexual violence as an instrument of control, terror and/or ethnic cleansing and gives a call to all groups in the conflict that…
Has Manipur Crossed The Rubicon?
The BJP has done a Humpty Dumpty on Manipur. The Prime Minister’s political acumen, Maan ki Baats, high-pitched oratory, and the massive Bhakt network around the country, nothing at all,…
Hunger-Strike Appeal: Ro Khanna, Stand and Speak For Manipur
On my 4th day of hunger-strike, here is my direct message to Ro Hi Congressman Ro Khanna. As you probably already know, today is the 4th day of my indefinite…
Theatre performance reminding us of Manipur situation
The current events in the troubled state of Manipur remind me of a very powerful Manipuri play Draupadi I saw at Prithvi theatre in Mumbai more thana twenty years ago.…
Manipur: The Relentless Saga of State-Sponsored Terrorism – Interview with Dr Lamtinthang Hoakip
https://youtu.be/aWsbZ0x1MV4 It's almost three months since Manipur, the Northeastern State of World's largest democratic nation started burning due to unbearable ethnic clashes. The current and overall political condition of India…
Why I’m Hunger-Striking to Demand Ro Khanna Speak On Manipur Horror
Ro must realize that legends don’t walk middle grounds In 2019, US Congressman Ro Khanna reached out to me, and we have stayed in touch since. For over the past…
Manipur violence: State as a perpetrator
Manipur issue has been in the national headlines for the last three months. Responding to the opposition and pressure that was building up, the prime minister made a statement on…
Manipur Violence Exposes BJP’s Culture of Deflection, Deception and Diversion
A disturbing incident was recently reported in Manipur, where two women from the Christian Kuki-zomi tribe were publicly stripped, paraded naked, and allegedly assaulted by a mob from the majority…
Unity is the need of the hour
The hollowness of the claims of 'mother of democracy' and 'Vishwaguru' are already known to India. To counter every criticism coming from abroad, you make loud noise about 'democracy' and…
Manipur-Incident: “Naked” Exposure of its Supporters!
If the video about atrocious and disgusting sexual assault of women in Manipur had not gone viral, the entire country and the rest of world would certainly not have reacted…
Restore Peace in Manipur Immediately!
A statement issued by various women’s s organizations, students' organizations, workers' union, and other people's organizations and democratic individuals of West Bengal Restore Peace in Manipur Immediately! Justice to Brutally…
Voices of Manipur: 12th Newsletter
Thousands of people in different parts of the country held protests and marches in solidarity with the people of #Manipur. Manipur as seen by its people, here is our twelfth…
From Nirbhaya-2012 to Manipur horror-2023: A decade lost……. but lesson not learned
The national capital of India, New Delhi made news worldwide in December 2012 for the unprecedented brutality against a daughter of the country later named as “Nirbhaya” for the extraordinary…
Mass Petition to President of India to Intervene in Manipur
23rd July, 2023: National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), along with over 3,200 + activists, academics, artists, retired bureaucrats and concerned citizens, many representing hundreds of movements and organizations from…
What Manipur is Witnessing Today ..
Decades are a short time in a nation’s journey. The sexual assault on three Kuki-Zo women and their being paraded naked by a frenzied mob in Manipur- with the police…
Pain
Pain contracts to a Nation when they stripshow somebody's daughter, wife and mother walk them down the streets and go home to meet their women in their eyes and shut…
Questioning the Silence : Sexual Violence in Manipur
On July 19, 2023 a heinous and unforgivable incident made it to the headlines. In connection to the ensuing ethnic clashes in Manipur, an incident of two Manipur tribal women…
Extraordinary Matters
The extraordinary silence of the Prime Minister on the horrifying situation in Manipur has been broken by an extraordinary statement on a viral video of rape of one woman and…
Modi Expresses Shame on Manipur Rape Incident, But What A Hypocrisy!
As Pradhanmantri ji 'expressed' his 'pain' and 'anguish' on the horrific incident in Manipur suggesting all the state governments such as Rajasthan, Chhattishgarh, Bengal or Manipur, must do everything to…
Manipur Violence and the Outrageous Assault on Women
We, the undersigned women's organisations and concerned individuals, are outraged at the brutality on the one hand and the impunity and brazenness of the perpetrators of the crime against women…
The Horror That Is Manipur
The incident of rape and parading of two Kuki women in Manipur is outrageous and barbaric to say the least. We dont have the word to describe as what has…
Voices of Manipur: 11th Newsletter
"I know two Manipurs: one before this violence and one after this". #VoicesofManipur. Here is the 11th edition of #VoicesofManipur. Read here personal experiences of the humanitarian crisis in Manipur.…
Fractured memories of Manipur – through myths, history and personal encounters
`A woman, spreading a sack before her like a fish stall/ Sells bodies of little children /Dead from gunshot wounds/ Sprinkling water…
Lullaby
Lullaby- A song by Akhu Chingangbam. Akhu Chingangbam is a famous musician from #Manipur. He has shared this song about the crisis in his state.
Voices of Manipur: 10th Newsletter
Voices of Manipur is a collective of concerned citizens. They bring out the situation in Manipur through the newsletter published in social media. This is the 10th newsletter. They can…
Stop Criminalising Human Rights Work in Manipur: PUCL
PUCL Demands from the Manipur Government: Stop Criminalising Human Rights Work! Respect the fundamental rights of citizens to conduct Fact Finding Enquiries and publish their reports for public discussion. Immediately…
Voices of Manipur: 9th Newsletter
Voices of Manipur is a collective of concerned citizens. They bring out the situation in Manipur through the newsletter published in social media. This is the 9th newsletter. They can…
No Respite In Sight in Manipur
It is now close to two months since Manipur has been in an unrelenting state of violence. The hostilities have assumed cruel forms involving ferocious ethnic fires. Angry masses have…
“State-sponsored Violence in Manipur”: National Federation of Indian Women
A three-member fact finding team comprising NFIW (National Federation of Indian Women) General Secretary Annie Raja, National Secretary, Nisha Siddhu, and Deeksha Dwivedi, independent Delhi based lawyer visited Manipur from…
Sedition in Manipur: Dashed hopes and expectations
The violence in Manipur starting May 3, 2023, in Churachandpur and still continuing, has complicated causes and sources, but one very clear effect – it is causing untold misery and…
Once More on Manipur
Listening to Karan Thapar's numerous interviews with Meitei and Kuki interlocutors on the Manipur situation,I carried away the impression that it is not possible to acquire a clear idea of…
Manipur’s Killing Fields: A Tale of Greed, Identity Politics, Radicalization and State Collusion
“We are afraid to open our mouths. There is nothing we can do for ourselves. It is those outside the state who must speak up for us,” a Christian academician…
Manipur: A land in trouble
An overview of Manipur's three-way ethnic conflict between Meitei, Naga and Kuki groups, which started since the era of British rule and the Anglo-Kuki war of 1917-19 during World War…
Imphal – A Historic Turning Point?
Manipur, with its capital at Imphal, is bordered by Nagaland, Assam, and Mizoram. To its east is part of India’s sensitive international border with Myanmar (formerly Burma), increasingly under covert…
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