Manipur

The Tangkhul Aze Katamnao Long (TAKL), also known as the Southern Tangkhul Students’ Union, held a press conference in Imphal warning that vulnerable indigenous Naga communities along Manipur’s international border could seek assistance from neighbouring countries, including China, if the Centre and Manipur government failed to protect them on 29th September. The statement provoked understandable …

Continue reading "The Geopolitics of Grievance: How Christian Kuki and Naga Organisations Keep Taking Manipur’s Internal Conflict to Foreign Powers and India’s Struggle to Establish Effective Deterrence"

There is something profoundly revealing about an armed movement documenting itself. For years, insurgent organisations depended on secrecy. Today, the smartphone has changed the equation. Fighters can become influencers, camps can become content and footage intended for an audience of sympathisers can leave behind a remarkably detailed digital trail. That trail now warrants serious scrutiny …

Continue reading "From Facebook to The Frontline : Two Manipur-based Cadres of Kuki Armed Extremist Group UTV Document Combat Training, Camp Life, Collaborations Between UTV and Myanmar-based Chin-Kuki Armed Groups, Claimed Military Operations in Myanmar and Manipur and the Church-Militancy Nexus"

The detention of seven suspected Kuki militants, including a church leader, by personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force’s CoBRA unit near Chawangkining village in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on 19th September was followed by violent protests, road blockades and demands for their immediate release. From Protest to Coercion: How Violence Paralyzed NH-2 The seven detainees …

Continue reading "Seven Suspected Kuki Terrorists, Including a Church Leader, Released Within Hours of Mob Violence and NH-2 Blockade: Is Street Pressure Undermining Lawful Investigations in Manipur?"

The proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Manipur is being presented as a means of identifying citizens and addressing concerns over undocumented migration. But identifying citizens is only one part of the challenge. The greater question is whether the government can create a register that is legally defensible, administratively credible and trusted by communities …

Continue reading "Manipur’s NRC : Building a Register That Can Withstand History, Law and Conflict"

The Indian Government’s decision to defer the Census in Manipur creates an opportunity to confront a deeper and long-standing problem of producing a credible population record through a new demographic exercise when significant questions remain over the reliability of the historical data on which it is built. In a state fractured by conflicts, cross-border migration, displacement …

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    Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Losii Dikho, accompanied by eight other Naga legislators, has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding immediate action against Kuki-Zo political leaders and armed-group operatives allegedly involved in attacks on Naga civilians. In a strongly worded appeal, the legislators demand the arrest of Kuki-Zo leaders whom they deem …

Continue reading "9 Naga MLAs Demand Action Against Political Leaders like Manipur Deputy CM Nemcha Kipgen Over Alleged Affiliations With Kuki Extremist Groups, Call for Immediate Scrapping of SoO Agreement"

The 7th August letter from N. Ashok Kumar, Chairman of the Joint Monitoring Group, the tripartite mechanism responsible for supervising and enforcing the ground rules of the Suspension of Operations (SoO) agreement, finally delivers a stern written warning to Kuki terrorist groups operating under the arrangement that is available on public domain. The message acknowledges …

Continue reading "Government Finally Moves to Enforce the Rule of Law on Kuki Terrorists Under the SoO Agreement After Three Years of Violence and 160 Lives Lost, But This Warning Too Will Remain an Empty Threat Unless the Structural Failures Behind Years of Impunity Are Fixed"

On 29 May 2026, Nitish Kumar, a 57-year-old truck driver from Hooghly, West Bengal, was transporting food and essential supplies to the residents of Ukhrul District in Manipur. He never made it. As a convoy of FCI trucks and LPG tankers escorted by Manipur Police, CRPF, BSF and RAF moved towards Ukhrul, armed Kuki militants …

Continue reading "Kuki terrorists murder truck driver Nitish Kumar from West Bengal and wound a policeman during ambush on food delivery convoy, NH2 placed under siege for hours"

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"

Gunfire echoed from near the Changsang Hill on the northeastern edge of Imphal Valley at around 9.30 a.m. of 20th March and once again, no one was held accountable. Suspected armed Kuki militants opened fire on Meitei villagers collecting firewood near Pukhao village under the watch of CRPF and Manipur Police personnel, laying bare not …

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