Kuki

Young Kuki men openly posed and smiled for cameras while holding a pistol and what appeared to be an assault rifle during the inauguration ceremony of the Saparmeina Turf Ground in Kangpokpi district of Manipur on March 24. This was not a covert display. It unfolded in plain sight, in a public setting, with no …

Continue reading "Inside Kangpokpi’s Armed Spectacle: How an Arms Ecosystem Circulates Weapons to Sustain Manipur’s Gun Culture"

Markets for military-grade weapons has moved beyond jungles, border trails and hidden depots into the digital realm in the Kuki-dominated districts of Manipur, where it is becoming disturbingly accessible. At the center of these allegations is a WhatsApp group brazenly titled “THAL ORDER”. According to sources familiar with its activity, the group functions less like a …

Continue reading "The WhatsApp Shadow Market for Cheap Military-Grade Weapons: How Illicit cross-border Arms Networks Exploit Divided Enforcement in Kuki-Dominated Regions of Manipur"

Not many people outside the North-East might be aware of the fact that the Myanmar-origin “Kuki-Chin-Mizo” people have orchestrated at least 10 major attacks on the non-Christian indigenous tribes of Manipur, Tripura, Assam, and Mizoram since the early 1990s, with the objective of occupying their lands and changing the demography of the region. Most of …

Continue reading "Sibraikhung in Ruins: The Silent Erasure of Reang Shaivite Faith and the Unfinished Battle for Tripura’s Ancestral Soul by Dr. Ankita Dutta"

Tens of thousands of indigenous Manipuris, predominantly Meitei civilians from districts such as Churachandpur, Moreh, Torbung, Ekou and adjoining areas have been violently uprooted from their homes and livelihoods and forced into prolonged internal displacement within their own state since 3rd May, 2023. What began as sudden, coordinated attacks rapidly transformed into one of India’s …

Continue reading "When Homes Were Demolished and Temples Fell Silent: The Ongoing Suffering and Loss of Dignity among Displaced indigenous Manipuris"

A fresh gunfight in Manipur’s volatile hill districts has underscored how disputes over land, governance and armed authority are converging into a dangerous flashpoint. The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF), an armed group representing Zeliangrong interests, has claimed responsibility for a military operation targeting what it described as Kuki underground camps near Kharam Vaiphei village in Kangpokpi …

Continue reading "Land, Legitimacy and Armed Presence: How Kuki Claims and Encroachments Set the Stage for another Gunfight with Nagas in Manipur"

When environmental law finally caught up with an illegal road carved through protected forests in Manipur, the response from its patrons was not compliance — but diplomacy. Or, more precisely, performative minority diplomacy. A self-described Kuki Civil Society Organisation (CSO), The Kuki Alliance for Nampi Awakening Movement (KANAM) has written directly to the United States Embassy in New Delhi, …

Continue reading "Persecution Claims Abroad, Environmental Violations at Home: Kuki Groups Allege Minority Christian Persecution After NGT Halts Illegal Road Through Protected Forests"

© Vladimir Adityanath The Meiteis are the indigenous sons and daughters of the soil and have shaped the culture, customs, traditions and civilisational values of Manipur for at least 3000 years (5000 years according to many historians and researchers). They are the last remaining Hindus of our far-East. The Meiteis and Bishnupriya Manipuris face a …

Continue reading "Borders and Ballots: How the political betrayal and the compromise are ruining the indigenous soul of Manipuri Civilisation"