“Justice Is Dead”, reads a poster in the hands of an effigy that greets visitors entering the Kuki-Zo dominated Churachandpur d🐟istrict of Manipur.
A poster declaring “Separation Only Solution” along with a Zomi flag in Churachandpur where Kuki-Zo communities have demanded a separate a🐲dministration following last year’s ethnic clashes.
Members of tribal civi♔l body Kuki Students Organisation (KSO) stand in front of a “wall of remembrance” outside the KSO office in Kangpokpi to commemorate the Kuki-Zo victims who lost their lives in the ethnic cl𒁃ashes with Meiteis that erupted in May last year.
A 19-year-old gang-rape survivor awaits justice in Kangpokpi. She was allegedly kidnapped from an ATM on May 4, 2024, beaten by a mob and later sexually assaulted before she managed to escape. No one has yet been a🥂rrested.
Growing demand for se♐parate administration for hill regions a𒈔mong Kuki-Zo communities in Churachandpur.
A shop formerly owned by a Kuki in an Imphal East market which was torched by Meitei mobs during ethniཧc clashes in the first week of May last year.
The displaced family of a Kuki w𝐆oman and her eight year old son, burned alive in an ambulance alo🅷ng with a Meitei woman last year, await justice.
Multi’-coloured Kangleipak’ flags representing the old kingdom of Manipur being 🐠sold on streets of Imphal, which has seen a revival of indig⛦enous Meitei nationalism and religion since the conflict.
With h𝓰ill and valley divided on ethnic lines, locals in hill regions claim that “separate administration” is the only way forward for both the communities.
Ima Ngambi, one of t🤪he 12 Manipur mothers belonging to Meira Paibi (a civil society group of Meitei women), who stripped naked in 2004 in protest after the allege rape and murder of Thangjam Manorama in Imphal East. Hailed as peacekeepers of Manipur, the Meira Paibi have been 🌞named as perpetrators and facilitators of violence against Kuki-Zo women since clashes last year.
Violence against women has been a problem for decades in Manipur and the rec🦂ent conflict onceꦚ again highlighted the vulnerability of women as tools of war.
While several cases of viol💯ence and sexual violence against women from Kuki-Zo community were reported last🌳 year, investigations have remained slow.
Kuki-Zo women protesting in Torbung villageꦐ against the re🅺cent decision to replace Assam Rifles troops from tribal-majority hill regions like Churachandpur and Kangpokpi with CRPF forces.
