The first time the world took notice of the gross human rights violations being perpetrated in Manipur, India, was in July 2023, when a video of Manipuri women from the Kuki tribe who had been ...

Internally displaced people in Manipur, India. Credit: Special Arrangement. Manipur – literally translated as “Land of Jewels” – has thousands of years of recorded history and a written constitution ...

Binalakshmi Nepram and Sushant Singh discuss the ongoing violence in Manipur, the root causes, and what the government should do to restore peace. July 21, 2023 Houses are seen burnt following ethnic ...

Naorem Mohen, Editor Signpost NewsEvery monsoon, when parts of the Manipur valley go under water, the questions return. Why were the rivers not dredged before the rains ? Why have natural drainage ...

Any history of Manipur must necessarily begin by stating that the present name by which the state is known is a fairly recent coinage. A few decades prior to the 1789 French Revolution, the state was ...

The presence of ethnic divisions in Manipur, which shares a border with Myanmar, is not a recent development. The on-going increase in violent incidents in Manipur can be traced back to a demand made ...

Binalakshmi Nepram, founder-leader of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (MWGSN) blames successive Indian central governments since 1949 for the current ethnic violence in Manipur which has so ...

In Manipur, the region of India in which Binalakshmi Nepram was born, Indigenous people have lived 60 years under an Armed Forces Special Powers Act that gives state soldiers broad authority to arrest ...

Rebels demanding the introduction of a medieval script in India’s Manipur state torched a repository of hundreds and thousands of priceless books, police said on Thursday. A group of 50 rebels stormed ...

Manipur, a princely state in northeastern India, merged with the Indian Union on October 15, 1949. This followed the signing ...