Kuki women students of Manipur University recount horror of targeted attack by mob

For a good six hours on the intervening night of May 3 and 4, four women Ph.D. research scholars of the Manipur University campus in Imphal cowered in a toilet of their hostel building as an armed mob went about systematically locating students, staff and faculty from the Kuki-Zomi community.

The mob which was brandishing sticks and knives were shouting slogans like “Sida Kuki Nupi Leibra?” (Is there any Kuki woman here?) and “Kuki Nupi Hatlo” (Kill Kuki women).

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