Author: Yambem Laba
Yambem Laba
(Yambem Laba is a senior journalist in Manipur. He has extensive reporting experience in insurgency, ethnic conflicts and politics of the North East. He has also served as the acting chairperson of the Manipur Human Rights Commission)
Three years after the bloodshed, a ‘New Delhi Post’ ground report finds that the state remains as fractured as earlier, where fresh conflicts simmer, armed groups hold sway, and Delhi continues to wield decisive control For much of India, Manipur has quietly disappeared from the headlines. The television crews have moved on. Political attention has shifted elsewhere. National debates have found new flashpoints. But in India’s troubled north-eastern frontier, peace remains an illusion. Three years after the ethnic violence of May 2023 tore Manipur apart, the state remains deeply fractured. Entire communities continue to live in ethnic enclaves, thousands of…
