The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 issued a public statement “directing” the Manipur government to “ensure that no further violence which results in violation of human rights takes place”. The commission also directed the State government to continue rehabilitative measures and provide compensation without any “discrimination or arbitrariness”.
In the statement, the human rights body said it had taken cognisance of multiple cases related to the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur between the dominant Meitei people and the Scheduled Tribe Kuki-Zo people. Accordingly, the NHRC has also issued notices and sought reports from the Manipur government in these cases but in most of them, the reports are still awaited. The commission has now directed the State to submit these reports within two weeks.
“Therefore, it becomes imperative to know what actions have been taken by the authority concerned in the series of incidents that kept on happening for a considerable period and the disturbances are continuing for a pretty long time,” the NHRC’s statement said.
