The Latest Breaking News from Churachandpur

Manipur government to transport essential commodities to Churachandpur from August 28. Health department to undertake aerial supply via BSF, Assam Rifles and Manipur Police. Transporters in Imphal refuse to ply to area due to safety risk. Kuki body re-imposed blockade on Dimapur-Imphal NH2. Govt. developing alternative supply routes for tribal…

Two Manipur-based NGOs, Rural Women Upliftment Society and Highland Impact, along with with other charitable organisations, carried out a cleanliness drive across nine relief camps in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on August 14, 2023. The NGOs are likely to carry out similar drives in the other relief camps in the Churachandpur…

Union govt. approves 2 inter-State routes for helicopter services to aid people affected by ethnic conflict in State. Subsidy scheme requires passengers to pay ₹2,000, with State & Central govts bearing rest of burden

In another case of violence against women in conflict-hit Manipur, a Meitei woman in her thirties has now alleged that she was gangraped by “Kuki miscreants” while she was trying to escape mob violence in Churachandpur district on May 3. A complaint was lodged at the women police station in…

In Churachandpur’s Tuibuong, Kuki children staying in the Grace Academy relief camp line up with copies of the Bible to attend Sunday mass. Once a school for Tuibong’s Meitei and Kuki children, the building now serves as a makeshift relief camp for displaced Kuki families from Kangpokpi – sheltering 124…

In Manipur, a 37-year-old woman filed a complaint of sexual assault on May 3. Police registered a case of gangrape, assault or criminal force to outrage the modesty of a woman against unknown Kuki miscreants.

The International Meeteis Forum (IMF) had filed a contempt petition before the Manipur High Court alleging that a mob of “Kuki men and women” coming from Churachandpur had vandalised and razed government structures inside the complex where they intended to bury 35 of their dead

Union Home Minister Amit Shah meets delegation of Kuki-Zo leaders from Manipur to restore peace in the region before political talks are held

Manipur government orders Assam Rifles to replace Central forces at Churachandpur-Bishnupur boundary, an area of frequent clashes between Kuki and Meitei communities. After violence on Aug 5, BJP MLA questioned role of Central forces. Stand-off at Tengnoupal continues as 300-400 Kuki-Zo women continue sit-in blockade.

“It was deserted in the village, and my husband was scared. I asked him to leave for the relief camp, but his father didn’t agree. They were both killed right inside our house… attacked with sharp-edged weapons, and shot in the chest and head… What is the government doing? Is…

A panorama of Bishnupur’s Meitei-dominated Terakhong village spanned in front of 15 self-proclaimed Kuki ‘volunteers’ as they lugged their single- or double-barrel guns to a bunker in P Geljang village of Churachandpur district on Thursday.