AIZWAL/GUWAHATI: Tribal groups upped the ante Thursday for the bodies of 10 Hmar “militants” killed by forces in Manipur’s Jiribam to be taken back from Silchar Medical College in south Assam’s Cachar to their native village through Mizoram, where their Kuki-Zo brethren intend to honour them as “fallen heroes”.Uncertainty over when the bodies would be…
GUWAHATI: Hmar Inpui, the top association representing Hmar tribe of Kuki-Chin-Zo ethnic group, declared Saturday a peace agreement brokered two day ago between Meiteis and tribal group in Manipur‘s Jiribam as “null and void”, saying it was signed “without our prior, informed consent”.Jiribam has a multi-ethnic demography and remained untouched until this summer by the…
Unidentified gunmen torched govt offices, including two police outposts, and more than 70 houses in several villages of Manipur’s Jiribam district bordering Assam early Saturday, shattering peace in the north-eastern state already grappling with ethnic strife since May last year, reports Prabin Kalita.Jiribam, known for its diverse ethnic composition of Meiteis, Nagas, Kukis, and non-Manipuris,…
Unidentified gunmen torched govt offices, including two police outposts, and more than 70 houses in several villages of Manipur’s Jiribam district bordering Assam early Saturday, shattering peace in the north-eastern state already grappling with ethnic strife since May last year, reports Prabin Kalita.Jiribam, known for its diverse ethnic composition of Meiteis, Nagas, Kukis, and non-Manipuris,…
