RSS calls for urgent resolution of Manipur conflict as violence escalates
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to President Draupadi Murmu on Tuesday seeking her ‘constitutionally imperative’ intervention in the matter.
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Monday demanded “an urgent, sincere resolution” of the ethnic violence in Manipur, the Hindutva group’s mouthpiece Organiser reported.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh condemned “the recent spate of brutality, including the inhuman killing of women and children”. It described the actions as “cowardly” and “contrary to the very essence of humanity and peaceful co-existence”.
There has been an uptick in violence in Manipur over the past 10 days, with at least 22 persons having been killed since November 7. At least 255 persons have died and more than 59,000 persons displaced since the clashes broke out between the Meiteis and Kuki-Zo-Hmars in May 2023.
On Sunday night, a 25-year-old Meitei man, Athouba Ningthouja, was shot dead by the state police during protests in Jiribam district.
The firing took place when a mob was vandalising property in the Babupara area to protest the killings of a group of six Meitei women and children who had been abducted allegedly by Kuki militants from Jiribam on November 11.
On Friday, the bodies of a woman and two children, including a two-year-old boy, were found floating on the Barak River at Lakhipur in Assam a day prior.
The body of another woman and child were recovered on Sunday, while that of the...
