“They want to use dead bodies as a symbol of enmity between the Kukis and Meiteis for generations,” he said in a phone interview from Imphal. Image Indian security officers are deployed on a ...

The Meitei body, COCOMI, has called for a 'farmer safety zone' around Imphal Valley after a farmer was injured in a gun attack. They demand shoot-at-sight orders to deter unauthorized armed intruders.

In India’s Manipur relationships between Kukis and Meiteis were not that uncommon before violence erupted, bringing the state to the brink of civil war. Namita Singh meets families whose lives ...

Today, Manipur is divided into two camps, with Meiteis inhabiting the Imphal Valley and Kukis living in the surrounding hill areas. Borders and buffer zones guarded by security forces separate the ...

The story of the Manipur conflict—the brutal ethnic clash between Kukis and Meiteis that left over 200 dead, more than 15,000 injured, and around 60,000 homeless—is being captured in a sudden ...

India's Manipur state has become the symbol of a vicious sectarian conflict which has severely dented the image of PM Narendra Modi. ... remain with the Meiteis, while the Kukis have 156.

N Biren Singh resigned as Manipur chief minister on February 9, 2025 in wake of a 21-month-old ethnic conflict between the Meiteis and Kukis. Over 250 people have died in the violence.

Manipur is now effectively divided into ethnic zones, as long-simmering tensions between two groups — the Meiteis, who form a narrow majority in the state, and hill tribes known as the Kukis ...

IMAGE: Manipur Chief ... Nearly 200 people have died and over 60,000 have been rendered homeless due to the ethnic conflict between the Kuki and ... The war is not between Meiteis and Kukis, ...

More than a year has passed since a deadly ethnic conflict devastated homes and claimed over 220 lives in India's north-eastern Manipur state. But its more than three million residents are still ...

While Kukis are just 16 per cent of the state’s population, Meiteis make up 53 per cent of the people. The toll of 181 killed includes 113 Kukis and 62 Meiteis, according to data reviewed by ...