Manipur: More than 300 killed, 49 missing since 2023 violence

At least 306 persons have been killed and 49 are missing in Manipur since the beginning of the ethnic violence in the state in May 2023, PTI quoted the government as having told the Assembly on Thursday.

State Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam provided the data recorded till August 31 in response to a question raised in the House. He said that the ethnic conflict had also caused widespread displacement and disrupted normal life across the state.

Ethnic clashes had first broken out in Manipur in May 2023 between the Meitei and the Kuki-Zo-Hmar communities.

The state was under President’s Rule between February 2025 and February 2026 after Bharatiya Janata Party leader N Biren Singh stepped down as the chief minister amid allegations from Kuki-Zomi-Hmar groups that his response to the violence had been partisan and that he had stoked majoritarianism.

Yumnam Khemchand Singh became the chief minister on February 4 this year.

He informed the Assembly on Thursday that 60,000 persons were displaced during the violence, which he described as an “unprecedented crisis”, The Telegraph reported. Of them, 36,000 internally displaced persons had been resettled and 24,000 remained in relief camps across Manipur.

Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.
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