A video seize of a suspected Meitei rebel in Manipur’s Jiribam
Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi:
Two girls have been killed in recent rounds of violence in Manipur within the final two days. In the primary incident, a girl from the Hmar tribe was allegedly shot, raped and set on hearth in Jiribam district by suspected Meitei insurgents on Thursday evening, in accordance with a police case filed by her husband.
In the second incident, a girl from the Meitei group was shot lifeless by suspected Kuki insurgents whereas she was working in a paddy area in Bishnupur district on Saturday, police sources mentioned.
In Jiribam, the 31-year-old girl and her three kids have been of their home when the assault occurred. A bunch of suspected Meitei insurgents set a number of different homes on hearth.
The civil society organisation Hmar Inpui in a press release alleged the suspected Meitei insurgents shot the mom of three kids in her leg, “rendering her unable to flee.”
“Disregarding her humanity and her household’s unimaginable grief, the attackers raped, tortured and burned her alive, denying her even the dignity of an honourable burial,” the Hmar Inpui alleged.
Jiribam Superintendent of Police Kh Robinsun Singh in a letter to the district Justice of the Peace sought permission to get the post-mortem executed with video recording in Silchar Medical College and Hospital in neighbouring Assam.
The district police chief mentioned Jiribam would not have a forensic drugs facility, and transport to the state capital Imphal can be “inconvenient” as a result of ethnic pressure.
In the Bishnupur incident reported right now, the girl was working in a paddy area with different farmers when suspected Kuki insurgents opened hearth from the close by hills, police sources mentioned, including she died on the spot.
Sapam Ongbi Sonia Devi, a farmer from the Meitei group, who was shot lifeless by suspected Kuki insurgents whereas she was working in a paddy area
Most of the paddy fields in Manipur’s low-lying valley areas, together with Bishnupur’s Saiton, the place the assault occurred right now, are close to the foothills the place suspected Kuki insurgents function disguised as ‘village defence volunteers’, Meitei civil society teams have alleged.
Huge protests have damaged out in Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi and Churachandpur district, looking for justice for the household of the girl who was allegedly raped and killed in Jiribam. Civil society organisations of the valley-dominant Meitei group have additionally mobilised to protest the killing of the farmer right now.
The Kuki tribes and the Meiteis have been combating since May 2023 over a variety of points equivalent to land rights and political illustration.