Ethnic Clashes Threaten To Push India’s Manipur State Into Civil War

The Guardian: ‘Foreigners on our own land’: ethnic clashes threaten to push India’s Manipur state into civil war 

As they saw the smoke rising up from torched houses nearby, Nancy Chingthianigng and her family knew they urgently needed to escape. 

It was early May and all around them, Manipur – a state in the north-east of India – had begun to burn, as members of the dominant Meitei ethnic group violently clashed with the minority Kukis in some of the region’s worst ethnic conflict in living memory. 

As a minority Kuki living in the state capital of Imphal, where the Meitei tribe dominate in number and political power, 29-year-old Chingthianigng feared for her life; news had already reached them of relatives and neighbours being targeted by Meitei gangs. Late that night, five members of the family piled into a car and headed for a Kuki-controlled area of the state.  

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Update #1: Armed mobs rampage through villages and push remote Indian region to the brink of civil war (AP) 

Update #2: ‘Foreigners on our own land’: ethnic clashes threaten to push India’s Manipur state into civil war (The Guardian)  

WNU Editor: The Indian government has made it very clear to the U.S. to not get involved .... U.S Envoy Stirs Row With 'Ready To Assist On Manipur' Remark; Cong's Manish Tewari Counters (Hiindustan Times)  

Update #3: The violence in Manipur state is not the only internal crisis that India is facing .... From Maoist Insurgency to Manipur: Mapping India’s Internal Security Crisis (The Quint).