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Today marks the 11th month of Zero Normalcy in Manipur.
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Mizoram's lone Rajya Sabha member K Vanlalvena on Saturday demanded President's Rule be impose in the violent-hit Manipur and criticized the Centre government for continued violence in the state. The Rajya Sabha member told TOI on phone that the Centre should remove the Chief
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In a significant development, police have taken four individuals into custody on Thursday in connection with the assault on a bank manager in Hailakandi district of Assam.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Shamir Daptari Baruah, disclosed that the detained individuals are
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"Will not share stage with Prime Minister Modi when he comes", Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on PM's plan to visit Mizoram's Mamit town on 30 October.
"People here are all Christians...when they see what Meiteis did (Manipur) by burning hundreds of churches, to have
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The Kuki-Zo residents of Moreh town bordering Myanmar and other Manipur villages alleged excessive brutality, viciousness and high-handedness of the police commandos during a police operation following the killing of Manipur Police’s Sub Divisional Police Officer Chingtham Anand.
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A HISTORY OF THE KUKI TRIBE IN FREEDOM STRUGGLE AND NETAJI’S INA
The Kuki tribe has played a significant role in the Indian National Army (INA) during the country’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule. The Kukis, an indigenous community inhabiting the hilly
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In Meghalaya, the Religious Conference of India, Ri Bhoi Zone on Saturday organised a silent meeting at Nongpoh Town Shopping Complex. A "Peace Rally" to show solidarity with the Christians in the violent-hit Manipur was held. During the rally, the church leaders sent a message
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On Friday, hundreds of Kuki-Zo collected at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to protest against the sitting BJP government’s incompetence to do anything about the situation that continues till now.
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Mizoram’s apex student body, Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) on Monday requested immediate termination of Teresa Nungthujam Ph.D programme at Mizoram University.
They also met Mizoram University Registar and Dean Students' Welfare.
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Mass grave for 87 members of the Kuki-Zo at Sehken hamlet near Khuga Dam
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Bodies of 64 Manipur ethnic violence victims kept in hospital morgues were handed over to their kin on Thursday.
Among these are the bodies of 60 Kuki victims who lost their lives during the violence that gripped the border state in May.
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In the fresh development from the ethnic clashes hit Manipur, at least three Kuki-Zo village volunteers were killed in an exchange of fire with majority Meiteis on early Friday morning at Thowai Kuki village in Manipur's Ukhrul district.
The deceased has been identified as
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A video of a 31-year-old tribal man, which was made shortly before he was beheaded and set ablaze on the boundary of Churachandpur and Bishnupur districts of Manipur on July 2, emerged on social media on Saturday.
#ManipurViolence
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People in the Indo-Myanmar border town of Moreh continue to flee their homes in search of safety.
Women and children, in particular, are vulnerable to rape, torture, subjugation and other forms of sexual violence.
@official_dgar
@Spearcorps
@BSF_India
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Kuki-Zo martyrs who lost their lives during the violence that gripped the border state in May arrived at Lamka Medical College on Thursday
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Glimpses of nation-wide rally in support of settling the demand for a "separate administration" for Kuki-Zo peoples in Manipur.
📍Lamka
#ManipurUnrest
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#ManipurBurning
: Central Intel learnt that two Meitei militia esp. Arambai Tenggol and Meitei Leepun who were involved in looting of Arms & Ammunitions from the state govt armouries and have recruited large number of surrendered Meitei militants from valley-based groups and
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Mizoram Chief Minister expressed his views for President’s Rule in Manipur
Speaking to news reporters at the 71st Plenary meeting of the North East Council in Shillong on Friday, Lalduhoma said the situation has not change in Manipur and sometimes have turned worse. The CM has
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Heavy firing between an armed Meitei mob numbering over 3,000 and the Manipur Rifles has been reported in the heart of Imphal city on Wednesday evening. As per witness reports, the armed mob consists of members of the Meitei right-wing group Arambai Tenggol. The Wire couldn’t
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Manipur: All 10 Kuki MLAs accuse police of molesting women, assaulting civilians
10 Kuki MLAs while condoling the death of police officer said, "In the operations that are underway at Moreh, the state forces resorted to arson, indiscriminate firing, looting of civilian
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The incident of a seven-year-old boy of mixed Kuki-Meitei parentage being burnt alive along with his mother and aunt are among 20 cases handed over by the Manipur Police to the CBI, which has begun its probe into the ethnic clashes that erupted in the state on May 3, officials
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The intelligence suggested that the People's Defence Force insurgents operating in Moreh with some reinforcements from Myanmar may attack state forces in Moreh. "However, there is no evidence that connects foreign parties to the incident," Singh said on Wednesday's gunfire
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The Zomi Council Steering Committee (ZCSC) submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister today on the militarisation of the Moreh Border Trade Centre and called for an immediate Political Solution for the Zo people (Zomi-Kuki-Mizo) given the continued discriminatory and genocidal
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#WATCH
Thousands of members from the Kuki-Zo community demanding a separate administration
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Kuki People's Alliance (KPA) MLA Kimneo Haokip Hangshing, along with her colleague MLAs and civil society organizations (CSOs) met Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to discuss the pain and suffering of Manipur tribals.
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IRB personnel Henminlen Vaiphei, resident of Mission Veng, Leimakhong and Thangminlun Hangsing of Khunkho village were shot dead when the duo's vehicle they were traveling was ambushed by suspected members of the Imphal Valley-based terror groups in Kangpokpi district of Manipur
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A Kuki-Zo family, who ran a school for 25 years in Imphal until it was burnt down during the ethnic violence in Manipur in May this year, has approached the Supreme Court demanding compensation from the state for failing to protect the institution and its infrastructure.
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#WATCH
In Manipur, 37 MLAs including Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MP took oath of allegiance to radical Arambai Tenggol at Kangla Fort on Wednesday.
@TribalArmy
@TribalHerald
@HansrajMeena
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Shy of a year, this is what
@official_dgar
has been facing day in and day out from the so called "Meira Paibis".
@Spearcorps
@NorthernComd_IA
@PMOIndia
@CBIHeadquarters
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Local media reported that Muhammad Tiken who was en route to a bus parking area, transporting items belonging to a Kuki woman from Imphal was stopped by majority Meiteis women group and then burned the autorickshaw and all the items he was transporting.
PS: At least they can
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KAN RAM ANI E (Is this not our land?)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS
Mizoram Art & Culture Minister Pu R Lalzirliana on Wednesday released the Mizo version of "I Gam Hilou Ham" composed by late L.S. Mangboi Lhungdim in presence Nemneihling w/o (L) Mangboi at CYMA, Aizawl, Mizoram.
Watch the
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To intensify the "separate administrations" demand for the tribals, the Kuki-Zo tribals, for the first time, would hold rallies in at least five other states besides Manipur on November 29.
Manipur tribals' apex body, Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum;s (
@ITLFMedia_Cell
), senior
Zo United, an organization representing Zo ethnic groups in Manipur to organised national rally on 29th November 2023 demanding for Separate Administration for the Kuki-Zo Peoples in Manipur
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Manipur: Top tribal body questions Biren Singh over response to Kuki police officer's death via
@businesstoday
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Heart wrenching .. “I never thought this would happen when they said it was over; I felt so weak and hurt.”
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?" ~ Terry Pratchett😭
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Mortal remains of Kuki-Zo martyrs airlifted from Imphal morgue reached Motbung LS Ground in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Thursday
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Glimpse of Seiminlun Gangte, an accused in the Manipur Violence case brought to Delhi's Patiala House Court on Tuesday.
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The ITLF condemns the killing of two unarmed Kuki-Zo and appeals to the central government for an expediate political solution [Union Territory With Legislature], acknowledging the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign against indigenous tribal minorities in Manipur.
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All 41 Kuki-Zo martyrs have reached Lamka
Mortal remains of Kuki-Zo martyrs airlifted from Imphal have reached Lamka in Manipur's Churachandpur district on Thursday
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Glimpses of "21 Guns" salute given to Kuki-Zo martyrs at Sehken near Mata Dam, Lamka
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Artists from Mizoram performing at MOBILE FUND RAISING CONCERT in aid of Myanmarese who crossed over into India and are seeking refuge in Mizoram on Saturday March 20, 2021.
@poppymcp
@ZoramthangaCM
@DrSasa22222
@nevilleskynews
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All the 10 Manipur MLAs from the Kuki-Zo community on Friday categorically refuted the claim of Chief Minister N Biren Singh of being in touch with them.
The legislators asserted that since the outbreak of communal violence on May 3, neither there was communication with the
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Lalduhoma, who is set to become the new chief minister of Mizoram, told Scroll that his government will continue to take care of refugees and displaced people from Myanmar and Manipur. “The issue is humanitarian.”
@ROKIBUZZAMAN2
✍️ via
@scroll_in
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Empty residents of non-tribals who resides in New Lamka leaving CCpur as the state govt arranged evacuation of non-Tribals from Churachandpur district.
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FRESH ATTACKS AGAINST MINORITY KUKI-ZO TRIBALS IN MANIPUR
Meiteis once again launched fresh attacks on Kuki-Zo tribals area in Pallel's Molnoi village in Manipur's Tengnoupal district early this morning (Friday 8th September).
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Mortal remains of Kuki-Zo martyrs airlifted from Imphal have reached Lamka in Manipur's Churachandpur district on Thursday
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Mizoram Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (MPYCC) President Laltawnliana flagged off MPYCC Relief Team along with Indian Youth Congress (IAY) from Aizawl Congress Bhavan to take stock of the situation in Lamka various relief camps. All relief materials will be handed over to
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In a strongly worded statement made by the ITLF via a press note, the forum condemned the abduction of four middle-aged Kuki-Zo civilians including two women on Tuesday by Meitei militant group Arambai Tenggol near Kangchup Chingkhong village in Manipur's Kangpokpi district.
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Manipur: 10 Manipur MLAs, 7 from BJP, allege ‘police excesses’
Ten tribal MLAs from Manipur, including seven from the BJP, have appealed to the Union home ministry to intervene in alleged police excesses on villagers during a hunt for the killers of a police officer. The MLAs
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#Replug
Lost lives, lingering pain: Kuki women share the ordeal of surviving Manipur ethnic violence
#ManipurViolence
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A joint operation of central forces and the Manipur police has triggered panic and anger in and around the border town of Moreh, with several allegations of police excesses on Kuki-Zo civilians, including a 15-year-old girl.
Since Thursday morning, hundreds of women and children
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Thousands of people from the Kuki-Zo community in Manipur’s Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, Pherzawl Chandel and Tengnoupal districts on Monday organised rallies to press for a solution in the violence-hit state and a separate administration for them.
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In Manipur, protests turn violence at Imphal's Singjamei demanding justice for two missing students
34 injured during massive students' protest on Tuesday.
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Manipur: Students’ body demands holiday every Friday to protest ‘state-sponsored’ ethnic cleansing
The Joint Students’ Body of Lamka in Manipur, has demanded that all government institutions in the town observe every Friday as a holiday.
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China-Myanmar module’ of NSCN-IM supported Meitei outfits to fan ethnic violence in Manipur: NIA
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The CBI has secured the transit remand of a Manipur resident for his production in a Guwahati court in connection with an arms looting case in Manipur.
Moirangthem Anand Singh, 45, had been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Imphal on September 22 for
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#WATCH
"I Gam Hilou Ham" performed by Sesih Branch YMA at the 74th YMA Inkhawmpui Lian 2023 at Biate town in Mizoram's Khawzawl district.
"I Gam Hilou Ham (Is this not our land?)," a powerful anthem that resonated as a call for tribal unity was composed by late L.S. Mangboi
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#Watch
🎥 Daughter of LS Mangboi, studying in Class-8 in Mizoram's Khawzawl town reacts when she heard about the news of her father's demise.
The noted Zo tribe songwriter who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time while he was travelling.
He is well-known for
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Two Mizo farmers of Khawzawl and their amazing harvest (Giant Cabbage).
Despite the poor soil quality of Mizoram, which is thin and rocky, with hard work and dedication Mizo farmers through the ages have been able to sustain and even produce incredible harvests.
- The Mizos
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Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhona on Thursday said that his government will continue to provide support to the over 40,000 people from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Manipur who have taken shelter in the state.
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Displaced Kuki-Zo medical students on Tuesday staged a protest against Manipur University for not allowing them to write their MBBS Phase-1 examinations at Churachandpur Medical College (CMC) despite the National Medical Commission (NMC) having no objection to displaced students
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Altogether 19 gold biscuits of foreign origin estimated to be valued at Rs 1.99 crore have been seized from two persons in Imphal International airport on Sunday.
The two persons have been identified as A Minaketan Sharma (28) of Bhrahmapur Aribam Leikai in Imphal East district
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"He never wanted to wield weapons."
Before the Manipur violence, L S Mangboi Lhungdim was a lyricist, composing patriotic songs about the state, reaching hundreds of thousands of people.
@TanushreePande
reports on the death of a beloved Kuki-Zo songwriter.
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In Manipur fresh attack have been reported at Kangvai area in Churachandpur district between suspected radical groups of Arambai Tenggol and Meitei Leepun of the valley and the hill tribes Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi-Hmar tribes. Aerial view using a drone shot have captured the Meitei’s
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Gloom envelops Manipur as families perform last rites for victims. Mass burials held in Kangpokpi district for burnt victims, including Tonsing Hangsing, a 7-year-old boy with a Kuki father and Meitei mother.
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Tension erupted in Manipur capital Imphal after Meitei Leepun chief Pramot Singh opened fire at non-Manipuris over a land dispute.
#ManipurUnrest
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In Imphal, the state’s surrender to an armed Meitei militia with ‘Taliban-like’ grip
Three MLAs were assaulted by the cadres of Arambai Tenggol at the meeting held on January 24. One had to be briefly hospitalised.
@psychia90
reports
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Churachandpur district magistrate Shri Dharun Kumar S. IAS, had promised to forward the Memorandum submitted by the Joint Students' Body, Lamka regarding the unjust CBSE de-affiliation of some schools in the hill areas of Manipur.
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‘Modiji, Silence Is Not Always Golden’: Protesters Say if Kukis Lose, Indian Democracy Will Lose Too
#ManipurViolence
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An intense gunfight broke out between two groups resulting in the killing of four individuals at Haotak Phailen village of Churachandpur district on January 10 at around 3 pm.
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Latest Manipur killings confirm long-dormant Meitei insurgency is seeing a revival
@ROKIBUZZAMAN2
✍️
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Asking people to vote for the MNF, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Monday said he was committed to the cause of Mizo nationalism, and his government was providing shelter to Zo ethnic immigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh defying the Centre’s directive to deport them.
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Fresh violence was reported from conflict-hit Manipur, where a gunfight broke out between village volunteers of the warring Metei and Kuki communities on Sunday, the state police informed.
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#Replug
Unpacking the ethnic violence in Manipur: The impact of social media and newly formed civil societies
I ✍️
#ManipurViolence
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Shot fired by Manipuri militant is still underway near Lamka's Donbosco School in Churachandpur district of Manipur.
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At least 121 Kuki-Zomi-Hmar medical students were displaced from the three medical colleges in Manipur's Imphal in the wake of the ethnic clashes that broke out in Manipur on 3 May.
Last week, nearly 50 of the first-year students could not take their exams, leading to protests.
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Glimpses of burial site for Kuki-Zo martyrs in violence-hit Manipur
A solemn ceremony is set to take place at Sehken in Manipur's Churachandpur district where the bodies of 87 members of the Kuki-Zo community will be laid to rest.
#ManipurUnrest
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Distressed about the lack of respect being given to Adivasis in Manipur, Adivasi writer Jacinta Kerketta, refused an award from the India Today group for her work.
@tanishka_s2
✍️
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Protest in Mizoram against the Manipur Chief Minister
for supporting ethnic cleansing of the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Hmar-Zomi by meitei radical's
#ArambaiTenggol
&
#MeeteiLeepun
and in support of the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Hmar-Zomi demand for total separate administration from Meitei.
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THE LARGE number of��weapons that were looted in Manipur and remain missing so far is a major cause for concern given the possibility of them landing in the “wrong hands”, the Director General of Assam Rifles, Lt Gen P C Nair, told The Indian Express.
As reported by The Indian
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Three days after a video of a Kuki-Zomi man being burned began doing the rounds on social media and Whatsapp, the Manipur government on Wednesday declared it will book and prosecute people found circulating images and videos of violence.
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Zo-Reunification Organisation (ZORO) on Friday said that social entrepreneur and activist, Alienery Lianhlawng does not represent the Zo people.
Lianhlawng's speech at the 54th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva sparked controversies and criticisms on
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#ManipurViolence
: Two including an IRB personnel killed in another ambush in Kangpokpi, CoTU seeks CBI inquiry
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If you don't know, now you know !!!
Meiteis Protest at Jantar Mantar, Delhi
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Manipur women paraded naked case: Police fled the spot, refused to save Kuki women, CBI chargesheet reveals via
@deccanherald
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Here's a Detailed Report from Manipur Police on the much hyped "Kidnap-murder" Case, which is entirely different from the Meitei narratives
#ManipurViolence
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27 Internally displaced MBBS students along with 6 nondisplaced students from Churachandpur Medical College protested after they were prohibited from appearing in their first-year MBBS examination which began today (November 21).
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At least nine (9) Manipur police have been sacked after the official house of the lone woman Manipur minister Nemcha Kipgen's resident in Lamphel area in Imphal West district was set on fire by unidentified people on Wednesday night, an official said. However, no one was inside
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Nohkalikai Falls is the tallest plunge waterfall in India. Its height is 1115 feet (340 metres).The waterfall is located near Cherrapunji in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India.🇮🇳
@anirban1970
@SLaitphlang
@BNMohanty86
@FazlulH13262921
@in_northeast
@incredibleindia
@theindiatrail
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Manipur youth highlights ethnic conflict at UN Indigenous Youth Forum in Rome
Dennis Hmar (
@DennisHrangchal
) representing the Kuki-Zo community highlights ongoing ethnic conflict at the United Nations Global Indigenous Youth Forum in Rome.
I write ✍️
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This photo where armed mobs can be seen with state police and Meira Paibis at the Ccpur Bishnupur buffer zone was sneakily captured by a national media journalist
#ManipurViolence
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The Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF), a coalition of tribal groups in Manipur, on Saturday, urged the Union government to immediately remove Manipur Chief minister N Biren Singh
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On 4 May, two Kuki-Zomi women were paraded naked by a mob of Meitei men. The younger woman was allegedly gangraped, her father and 19-year-old brother beaten to death.
We met her mother. The family can't be identified according to Indian laws on rape.
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Last night (11/6/23) a Naga truck driver was assaulted by Meiteis at Patsoi in Imphal West District. The Naga driver was carrying essential items for the people of Manipur.
In retaliation Naga burnt down Noney Police Station this morning, according to local sources. The Meitei
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A member of the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) Meitei militant group, identified as SS Uttam Moirangthem, was reportedly killed in a gunfight between the People's Defence Force (PDF) and Myanmar military coup in Myanmar.
@afridahussai
reports
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A delegation of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) on Monday met Mizoram Chief Minister Pu
@Lal_Duhoma
in Aizawl.
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Local residents welcome the Chin armed groups after Myanmar army base in Rezua town in Matupi District of Chin State was captured by Chinland Defense Force - Zotung, Zophei, Lautu, Mara and Senthang) known as ZZLMS and Chin National Army, CDF-Hakha, Thantlang & Hualngoram in a
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