The army said it had rescued a total of 23,000 civilians and moved them to operating bases and military garrisons. There was no immediate response from the state government. Stringer/AFP/Getty ImagesĬNN reached out to the state government of Manipur and the Indian army for comment on Sunday.
The mother was trying to protect the son, she was killed too.”Ī vehicle set on fire during an outbreak of ethnic violence in Imphal, the capital of India's Manipur state, on May 4. On their way, a mob encountered them and beat the son to death. “A mother and son they were on their way to a camp. “There have been so many deaths,” he added. He said there were about 5,500 people staying in his camp and that there were about six or seven camps in Imphal in total. I just came with my laptop bag to this camp. I climbed the fence over to the neighbors’ house. I barely escaped – the mob was already in the house. “A lot of houses are burnt, all our churches have been vandalized, some have been burnt. The execution is almost clinical and they know exactly the houses where people from tribal communities reside,” said the leader, who asked to not be identified due to fears for his safety.
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“What we are witnessing here unfortunately is there seems to be a very systematic, well-planned series of attacks. Indian army troops have been deployed to the streets and a five-day mobile internet blackout is in force.Ī youth tribal leader who works in Imphal told CNN his house had been vandalized and ransacked on May 4 and that since then he had been staying in an army camp. Video and photos broadcast on local television showed vehicles and buildings set on fire, with thick black smoke billowing from the streets. “Most of the patients are coming in with severe bullet injuries or having been hit in the head with lathis ,” Dr Mang Hatzow of Churachandpur District Hospital in Manipur told CNN. Gunshot wounds are the most common injury, according to officials at Imphal hospitals the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences and Churachandpur District Hospital. The two ethnic groups have been clashing in the streets of Imphal in India’s east and elsewhere.
The Indian military, meanwhile, said that 23,000 civilians had fled the fighting, with displaced people being housed on military bases and garrisons in the state. Ethnic violence in the Indian state of Manipur has killed more than 50 people, left hundreds hospitalized, and displaced 23,000, according to hospital officials and the Indian army.Īt least 55 people have been left dead and a further 260 hospitalized since violence broke out between members of the Kuki and Meitei ethnic groups earlier this week, hospital officials in the city of Imphal said on Sunday.
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