Public sentiment regarding the Manipur ethnic conflict is overwhelmingly marked by deep frustration, anger, and a yearning for peace across the Meitei and Kuki communities. Many commenters express disappointment with the government's inaction, attributing continued suffering and violence to poor leadership and a lack of accountability. There is a notable distrust towards various involved forces, particularly the Assam Rifles, perceived as biased. Despite the despair, some voices call for unity and reconciliation, although the harsher realities of historical grievances and political manipulation persist.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi

It’s interesting how so many people on this subreddit fantasize about war

ArmadilloAsleep7159

The funniest part is that mainland Indians who know nothing about Northeast India are talking about fencing the border. Yeah, good luck buddy. I'm sure that will go over well with the Mizo and Naga people who share family across the border. The whole fence-the-border thing is happening only because of Manipura. It has nothing to do with Mizoram and Nagaland. But the mainland Indians are blindly following it because the Kathes happen to be Hindu majority.

thekingminn

Hear me out......invade them

We should do it only, after we've dealt with our own business and only after we've redeveloped our own military and economy, and only after we got democracy, ofcourse.

BurmeseChad

Nation without states. I am fking sure , foreign players are present , outside of our knowledge. They are fighting for their freedom , kinda like Kurds. Really wonder , what is the solution for all of these things.

flyey69

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From your experiences and many other's I get a clear indication that this radicalisation is a recent thing.
There will always be some degree of divide but few fill that divide and few deepen it for their own gains.
Fortunately or unfortunately humans have weak memory. They forget things and events with time unless they are made to remember it. 
I hope people of Manipur some day forget about all this which has happened. The youth of the state has to open their eyes and see what their predecessors have done for their future. They all have been sold a war which nobody has asked for. People in grassroots level are concerned about their own life , career and well being untill and unless someone starts to control their fear. 

2024 Olympics are near and I miss the Manipur of Mary Kom ,Meera Bai chanu,Dinko Singh and Bembem Devi.

jaguuuu

i grew up in a similar environment with many different communities. there were instances where there were stereotyping and micro-aggressions in speech and behaviour but never the outright hatred that has spread in the last few years. we all got along well. but those same people are now polarised beyond recognition that they don't look like the people i grew up with. it is sad state of affairs all around and i hate it so much.

pegasus_kid_iii

I have family members, close and extended from the kom, tangkhul, koireng and kuki communities that are quite close knit. Growing up, it exposed me to other cultures, and helped me move away from viewing entire communities through a singular lens.
But the most important thing I learned is how our identities can be a barrier to understanding each other.
My mother was never accepted by my gaudiya meitei grandmother, and was quite mistreated, and I also witnessed how my tribal family members felt about meiteis, especially during this time.
One of my kuki relatives recently posted a horrifically gory video on whatsapp saying ''This is what is coming for meiteis'', while some of my meitei family and friends keep blaming kukis for the violence.
This polarization is extremely sad to witness.

randomPrick_

Maniacgritual37

The only Manipuri who I knew throughout my whole childhood was my mother's Kuki colleague, met meiteis and other tribals in 11th grade and tbh you do end up developing a bias through your company. I mean as a sc, we do seem to favour other disadvantaged groups. No matter how much I read into it but I still end up feeling that the tribals are the ones being oppressed even though I don't know what's happening there, if that specific colleague who have turned out to be rude instead of nice maybe my stance would have changed.

All in all it's human nature to favour your own community or those ones that you feel familiar or connected with.

ravisucksatmath

What a lovely post! Wish we could go back to those times when everyone got along and we all cared for each other.

Hopehee

As a Manipuri, I can say that the Muslim Pangals are very sincere in their desire to be peacemakers and bring peace to Manipur. Otherwise they are gonna get f***k*d.

As valley dwellers, they know they will get destroyed if they side with Kukis. They also know without Kukis, their traditional business as traders and transporters from Burma to India will vanish. Also the drug trade. After the Kukis, the Pangals are the biggest community involved in the drug trade. There’s an urban legend in Manipur that Indian Army Helicopters were used to drop shipments of drugs in Lilong, a Muslim dominated town.

So, in the fight between Kukis and Meiteis, the Pangals do need to be neutral and try everything to bring peace. Otherwise their future is not bright.

Wow, some of you clearly just hate Muslims. Anytime a Muslim group does something good, you people downplay it. Fucking disgusting bigots.

Aasha Khosa is, I believe, a Pandit. She verifiably has written in support of the Pandits too. If she was biased, you know, she probably wouldn’t do that…ffs

LegalRadonInhalation

i would have written smthng but i dont want to be banned again

Intrivort

I am going to start a blog, can that be considered as a source here?
Apparently it's quite easy

reddituser5514

Lol you idiots think it's funny to quote random no name two bit blog.

Ok_Mulberry_9123

Thanks for the joke was having a bad morning

Horror-Try4462

Blind_Assassin901

Lol the outright bigotry and hate on display in the comment section is just wild... I think the Chaddi have lost any sort of equilibrium they once claimed.. Never go full retard.

We are supposed to trust Awaz the Voice, but OpIndia is untrustworthy?

aikhuda

Lmao, now new propaganda 🤣

You people are so predictive

DomCthulhu

Old_Man_Sailor

For the bots asking for better source


https://youtu.be/DnBkU2HVDic?si=TeMgKKWzt46G_zy5

Samir925

panditji_reloaded

Yes they waited for everyone to kill everyone else and then claim dominance on the land ? I wish I were that smart in life.

Protonic_Descendent

Is this a reliable source? If not then it should be deleted.

This website looks like just a bit refined version of an CS Undergrad's Blog website project. It is even a recognised multimedia news platform.

Ok_Review_6504

Unique_Machine_9475

Free-Light3370

😂 sure they did... that's why Manipur is so peaceful now

DrMaximus

Just one meeting and everything solved... If this is True then kuki and meiti are dumb people who don't have any demand

chud_gaya_pakistan

illegalsmile34

Woow so good now manipur will be 5 trillion dollar economy cause muslim helped to maintain peace, because if them kuki militias went back to Myanmar and started doing farming and all guns and violence stopped cause a random muslim did 5 times namaz a day... keep up the good work feeling proud

9tgc

OP please man. C'mon. Quit lying to yourself lmao

SnooMacaroons1488

SrN_007

Nahh just put a tweet or a statement by a prominent figure and peace will prevail. You just need to say and people from both sides would put their arms down

aniruddhdodiya

Caste reservations is a form of state discrimination, so it is nazism. That is the root cause of violence in Manipur. Kuki Islamists and Myanmar drug dealers doing it. And meities have retaliated. State govt is responsible for law and order except in union territories.

Violence has already stopped months ago, only some old videos have come out now.

Critifin

No one really knows who's exactly behind the Manipur crisis. 

There are various angles to this crisis. It's mainly about land and Geopolitics. There is no doubt about the involvement of foreign influence in this crisis. 

First the scapegoat: 

Meiteis. The meiteis are the scapegoat in this crisis. The easy target for the liberal media. The so-called majority community, the mainly Hindu community but people tend to forget that Meiteis have 8% Muslims and 20% Christians and less than 5% Sanamahism. Rest are Vaishnavites who were converted during the time of Shanti Das centuries ago.

The Meiteis never had special privileges, (only a tiny fraction had SC status). Only the Nagas and Kukis had Scheduled Tribe status. And the infamous Manipur Land Reform Act restricted Meiteis from owning land in any areas considered Hills which is absurd since Manipur itself is a Hill state. So, the 54% population is boxed into the Central valley regions which accounts for less than 10% of Manipur. 

But anyone from India can still buy or own land in the already dense 10% area of the Central valley. 

Churachandpur town which Kukis proudly call themselves their land is also part of the Central valley of Manipur. You can check Google maps. It's not even a hill area.

The Crisis: 

Most people think the crisis began on May 3 but tend to forget that unrest in Churachandpur has already begun a week before. On April 28, Forest offices and Open Gyms which were to be inaugurated by CM Biren were burnt to express anger towards the government. Why? Because the government had been evicting encroachers in reserved forest areas and destroying popply plantations.

It got out of control on May 3 when the tribal rally was organised by both Nagas and Kukis protesting against the ST recommendation by the Imphal High Court to Meiteis.
(It was a recommendation, not even the first step of the process was started) 

But the rally in Naga areas were peaceful. No one used violence. However, only in the Kuki dominated areas violence started happening in the afternoon. Meitei Truck drivers were beaten, houses were vandalised and burnt. People killed. Women allegedly raped. Gun shops were looted. Armed militants were seen participating in the rally. 

This part is the gray area as Kukis will say Meiteis started this conflict by burning their Kuki memorial gate. But no one can prove if it were the Meiteis. https://youtu.be/trbrGPXFBdM?si=6x5b0qnL9cwfzsws

So I call foul in this theory. Without proof of who committed the crime, the Kukis used it as an excuse to start violence against Meiteis immediately. Even before the tyres stopped burning. So, I believe the burning tyres was a pretext to carry out vandalization and ghettoisation of different communities. Now, this all happened in the afternoon.

The news and videos of Meitei houses and killings of people reached Imphal by 4-5pm, There were videos of assault rifles being shot down from hills towards the paddy fields in the valley. It went viral on social media. Everyone was shocked and angry. 

That's when hell broke loose in Imphal areas. Meitei mobs retaliated to Kuki population in Imphal areas. Houses were burnt and people were unfortunately killed. 

The reaction was harsh. I don't deny it. It was a terrifying time. Everyone in my locality were scared, angry and paranoid. Despite that many goodwill people rescued Kukis out of sheer goodness. In Manipur University, Teachers took out all Kuki students from hostels and hid them in the Army camp which is located in the University Campus until evacuation. In Iroishemba, the Club leaders gathered Kuki people and saved them from mobs. There are so many instances of both humanitarianism and also barbarism from 3rd and 4th of May. It was a grim time.

After the ghettoisation was complete. The 4 month long crisis continued. Intermittent firing in the areas adjoining kuki and meitei areas continues to this day.

Possible reasons: 

There is undeniably a huge role of drug money at play here. There is no way anyone can fund this violence without the backing of lots of money. While Kukis say they are economically poor. Then where did the money for all those sophisticated sniper rifles and thermal imaging drones come from? 

Atleast 50,000 acres of forest areas have been used to plant poppy. The turnover is estimated to be more than 80,000 crores.

There's also undeniable fact that arms are being supplied from Myanmar. Which leads to a geopolitical angle. Do they want to break up Manipur?

There can be many other theories but I can tell you that Meiteis demand for ST status is not the main reason whatsoever. Why else are Nagas peaceful but only Kukis violent? Ask yourself that.

Conclusion: The solution lies on the Kuki CSOs to stop breaking up Manipur. When the dream of breaking up Manipur is removed. Only then Manipur will have peace. Meiteis have never done harm to any other community since Manipur existed. We are a peaceful and proud community. Remember that we sheltered Kukis in 1993 during the Kuki-Naga war. But what we get in return is a backstabbing.

ultron290196

Whatever happens dont let illegal immigrants come inside. They will fuck us and the whole country.

Saizou1991

Most of the comments would obviously be of people trying to show who did more crimes and trying to one up each other. But whatever have happened in the past 5 months must be investigated and all criminals should be tried by law, that's a must. But right now the first step and most important step the govt have failed to do is disarm the population. I see reluctance in the govt to do so and I kinda understand why. The problem with disarmament is that Meiteis want the Govt to eradicate the SoO(Suspension of Operations) agreement the central govt have with the various Armed Kuki militant groups before they give up the arms looted, only then will they feel safe. SoO "indirectly" allows the militant groups to wield their arms. There are other Indian Intelligence matter that are crucial assets to the Army linked with these militant groups in maintaining the region and related to Myanmar that's also one of the main problem which the govt can't say publicly.

Now lets say there are combing operations through out the state and somehow the population is disarmed (unfortunately very unlikely), then the govt have the next most important step to make, i.e., to build trust amongst the people that will last. For that I have few ideas in mind:

1. A new land reforms law must be bought in, where only the pockets of lands that the tribals already reside are to be protected for the specific STs and Majority of the remainder land/forest must be open to all. That would remove the meiteis' fear of threat to their identity and a sense of equal sharing of land would be achieved. Also this would make business investment flow in and illegal settlements much easier to detect and remove/prevent.
2. There should be a new form of legislation for the state, 2 houses just like in the parliament, we can introduce another house in the assembly where the new house would have elected leaders from the districts and the other house from the assembly constituencies as before. These would give the tribals a equal sense of power sharing as there are more numbers of districts in the tribal areas.

But the sad thing about all this is that the govt(both center and state) right now as I understand don't have the political will to do any of this. And as this goes on dragging for longer time the chances of insurgency coming up like it happened in the 50s and 60s is very likely. And also there is a huge chance that manipur will face famine like situation in the next year as many of the paddy fields of the valley couldn't be farmed this season because of the violence. The price of rice which is the staple food of all the people of manipur will skyrocket next year, and infact rice prices have already started growing in the state.

longbighard

It has nothing to do with public grievances. This started as a result of the long dream of “Kukiland” by some section of the kuki leaders. I do not think the dream of kukiland has any relevance or importance to the entire kuki in general just like meiteis in general have no or little interest in the meitie armed militants’ struggle for independent Manipur. With conflict going on for 5 month now, it is clear that these leaders are trying their best to split the state in the name of oppression, apathy towards tribal whatever that fits their agenda. Let me remind you that Manipur is a poor state and majority of the people are struggling for livelihood. Are all meiteis privileged as it is being portrayed? This reminds me of an interesting incident that occured to me just before the violence broke out. I was buying some snacks in a shop. There was this pack of chips and the mrp was 100 INR. I was startled with the price and asked the shop keeper who would buy this. The shopkeepers replied saying it’s in demand and mostly tribal (not only kukis) customers buys it. My point being there is no such thing as only meiteis being the priviledged ones. Yes, hills are under developed compared to the valley. One must not forget that it is that same valley where all meiteis, tribals, muslims, non manipuris, any “khongtek mittaang” co exist. Amit Shah holding talks separately in closed doors adds up to this already mounting insecurity. I leave it to the will of those in power for this mess to end. Meanwhile let’s continue mocking and fighting each other.

jungaHung

There's a proverb in delhi specifically south Delhi "gand vahi dhota ha jo hugta ha" it means the first to wipe their ass is the one who shits first. 
This war was started by meitei on the pretext of war against poppy🤓. But the kingpins of poppy planters/financed are meitei themselves.
Then they say that kuki are anti India but they failed to realized the numerous ambushed/bombing carried out by meitei terrorist/separatist groups against our Indian army.
Meitei attacked kuki Villages since 3rd may nonstop and when they die they blame kuki. How fascinating.
Meitei say that they don't want manipur to break blah blah blah but it is already broken the day your beloved cm branded the kuki as "narco terrorist" and "illegal immigrants" but they failed to realize that they came from Thailand...hmm.. 
Also one guy in the comment section is saying "nagas are peaceful and also about why arent they fighting with meitei and it's only kuki because kuki are bad people" well the answer is pretty simple it's because you can't do shit against them my friends. Meitei kids also know this but they won't admit it. Why? Ego ka mamla ha na bhaiiiii🤣🤣 anyway 
As i said "gand vahi dhota ha jo hugta ha" after all the things meitei have done now they have realized it is time to stop and that they should work towards peace. But Why now? Why not on 3rd May? Why not on 10th may? Or 15th may? Why after 4 months? It's because the thing that they wanted to do which was "ethnic cleansing of the kuki" couldn't be done instead it is their terrorist group cadres and unemployed arambai pingpong dying by the brave chad sigma sons of the kuki. And now they want peace, they want to live together after killing over 100+ kuki in the streets of imphal and burning more than 350+ churches. How funny these meiteis are..

12e22i

Justice precedes Peace.
Plain and Simple, but Govt. is not interested unless you burn their office 🤭

JuggyLee

https://youtu.be/GwDjhpUrqj4?si=o_D91A-Orts190SG

6creampie9

Remove illegal immigrants, introduce NRC, destroy poppy cultivation and provide proper land are for the citizens of Manipur equally. Abolish ST or provide ST to Meitei, Tangkhul and Kabui.

erection_disfunction

Let Manipur be under China. This violence will stop immediately as people will be too busy with their lives as suddenly they'll have employment infrastructure business and money. People will think twice about violence if they got something to lose which is the opposite of what is happening in Manipur today.

Not only Manipur but the whole Northeast should be under a rich forward looking state as China. Our future generations will do better and maybe 4-5 years HSR will be linking the region to Lhasa, Chongqing and Kunming. 🙂

Shillong-bottomboy11

It is an ethnic conflict between Kukis and Meiteis. Kukis are Christians while majority of meiteis are Hindus. Meiteis are a majority in Manipur and dominant in the capital Imphal whereas Kukis and Nagas are dominant in the hill districts. It is a complex issue dealing with drugs, free movement regime, radicalisation of youths and some civil society groups and state partisanship. There have always been skirmishes between Kukis-Nagas, Meitei-Nagas and now Kukis-Meiteis. Past skirmishes have either been brought under control or at least the state government wasn’t accused of being partisan so there were no governance and administrative paralysis due to it. The current conflict is different, Kukis accuse the Manipur govt of being partisan while Meiteis accuse Kukis of working with insurgent groups. All the three groups have insurgent groups fighting for their self preservation and some being secessionist as well. TBH, Manipur is one of the most politically unstable state in India and since Indian govt doesn’t really care about the NE region, it will remain unstable unfortunately.

Cold-Negotiation9966

If nagas and meiteis hate kukis, doesn't that mean something? If there's so many conflicts in manipur and a particular community is always constant, doesn't that say a lot?

Due-Pressure-4850

Stop thinking it’s religious and u will get ur answer

Long story short.

There is nothing Christian or Hindu, or ethnic angle to it.

Kukis comprised of many tribes, and their main motive is to engulf all under the kuki umbrella. The issue is Kuki supremacists who are calling the shots, all hailing from Myanmar wants a complete state under their control, where their main business of poppy productions can thrive well without any intervention.

Now, the GOI has geopolitical interest. They have extensively signed and used the Kukis for counter insurgency operations particularly against the meiteis and nagas. Then there is the kaladan project, which passes through Myanmar. And it seems GOI doesn't want to disappoint the Kukis.

Whereas meiteis don't have any particular demand of breaking up Manipur. Manipur was annexed into Indian union under a merger agreement 1949, hence it's complicated breaking up the state.

In short, this is cross border terrorism whereby indigenous people (meiteis) are cleansed off under some  shady political advantage.

As the truth cannot be swept underneath, the Kukis ain't getting their separate Kukiland even after 2 years.

This is the main thing.
Kukis want to break up the state. Total autonomy and massive Myanmarese immigrants permanent settlement.

Meiteis - no demand. Just don't break the state. They are indigenous.

aquari84

It is very simple. To be honest, Kuki is not a single ethnic group—it lacks a distinct cultural identity. Rather, it is a nomenclature, meaning anyone can join under the label. This conflict, like others, is linked to their desire to form a separate country, possibly called Zoland or Zogam (they haven't decided yet). This proposed country would include parts of Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, and Chittagong in Bangladesh, as well as Chin, Kachin, and western Sagaing in Myanmar.For some reason I don't understand, they’ve even included Arakan. When you list all the conflicts they've been involved in with other communities in India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, a pattern emerges that aligns with their territorial claims.

PotentialCourt3550

tutya_th

The overall conclusion is the ECONOMY:

 Limited resources- those who have Don't want to share it. Those who don't have also don't want to share it with their poor members but dream only to share among themselves, the elites. They fooled the poor to fight for that resource. They use religion to validate the fight.

Drug: in resources, drug is also the primary source, so they want to control it also.

Land: NE people are quite serious about land, coz it's the only source of their livelihood and also shows the dominance of the particular community.

My take - neither land or drug could save them. It's only knowledge that could bring power. Can really uplift a community. Take example of isreal, only true knowledge can make a community f##king deadly never to mess with . Food and items can come without you have land or local resources. 
Poor die, rich become more rich.

NeelNami

In the lead-up to Prime Minister Modi's visit, the Centre announced an agreement with Kuki militant groups amid ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur.

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