AFSPA

June 27, 2024 — News Analysis

Manipur Crisis Not in Priority List? President Murmu Fails to Mention Conflict in Her Address to Parliament

While the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, in a nearly hour-long speech to the joint sitting of Parliament, mentioned the...

June 14, 2024 — News Analysis

Rising Insurgency in Imphal Valley and Governance Breakdown in Manipur

Since May 3, 2023, Manipur has been embroiled in an escalating conflict marked by the resurgence of militant groups and...

May 13, 2024 — News Analysis

Biren's Nuture Crimes: None Safe in Meiteis' Valley of Imphal; Non-Locals Often Meet Meiteis' Atrocities

No one has been safe and secured in the “Valley of Death”, Imphal, the capital city of Meiteis’ Kangleipak and...

March 12, 2024 — Opinion

A Light Rebuttal to 'In Manipur, to SoO or Not'

In a Blog: ‘In Manipur, To SoO or Not,’ Debashis Achom, Editor, News, at NDTV (11 March 2024) wrote an...

March 11, 2024 — News Analysis

SoO Abrogation May Not be Enough to Douse Manipur: Here's Why

Amid the ongoing crisis in Manipur, the demand for abrogating the suspension of operations, commonly known as the SoO, between...

March 2, 2024 — News Analysis

COTU Considers Resolution to Abrogate SoO as "Against Peace", Calls for Total Shutdown, Public Rally

Considering the complete constitutional breakdown in the valley and the recent Manipur State Legislative Assembly’s resolution to abrogate the Suspension...

March 2, 2024 — News Analysis

Manipur Governor Data Raises Serious Questions Over the Mayhem the 'Double-Engine' Govt Has Unleashed

Manipur governor Anusuiya Uikey’s speech on February 28 put out official data on the damage and destruction in Manipur since...

February 11, 2024 — Opinion

Now or Never: India Must Rein in on Meitei Militia and VBIGs, or Prepare to Face a Leviathan

On January 24, 2024, all the Meitei legislators, including Shri R.K. Ranjan Singh, the Union Minister of State for External...

February 10, 2024 — News Analysis

Digging One's Own Grave: The Radicalised Meiteis Must Pay a Heavy Price for What They Have Done

Meitei, the dominant community in Manipur, is a relatively homogenous society, all speaking Manipuri (Meitei Lon) as their mother tongue....

January 6, 2024 — News Analysis

Imphal Valley: A Safe haven for proscribed Meitei terrorists; Meitei Militants Arrested In Two Separate Incidents, Gunshots Rampant

In the absence of imposition of Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in the Meiteis’ ancestral land of Imphal...

December 29, 2023 — News Analysis

Talibanization of Imphal Valley: Police Personnel Give Gun Salute to the Deads of Procribed PLA Cadres?

The Meiteis’ Kangleipak, at present, is witnessing a state of anarchic, disorganized, helter-skelter and lawless state, with all sorts of...

December 23, 2023 — News Analysis

The MST Bus Theatrics : How Biren's Drama Once Again Failed to Convince His Own People [the Meiteis]

On 19 December 2023, the Chief Secretary of Manipur issued a notification which said that the MST Bus service along...