Manipur right now is a horror show. The northeastern state has been consumed by a civil war between the dominant Meiteis and the tribal Kukis since early May that has left nearly 150 dead, 60,000 displaced and entire villages in ashes. It’s a fiendish conflict as the world found out this week when a video emerged of a brutal sexual assault on Kuki women.
They had been caught while running from a Meitei mob torching Kuki villages, stripped naked and paraded. One of them, 21 years old, was gangraped and her father and brother murdered.
For a Scroll reader, that video may have been shocking, of course, but not really surprising. That’s because ever since the conflict began, we have covered it exhaustively and showed how dastardly it is. Over a month ago, for example, when much of the media had scant attention to pay to the conflict, we were on the ground reporting how the ethnic clash had slipped into a civil war.
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