Kuki villager shot dead in Kangpokpi

Unidentified gunmen killed Paolenmung Thangneo, a forty-four-year-old from P. Muolding village, on Tuesday October twentieth, twenty twenty-six, while he collected bamboo shoots in a forest.

Companion escapes the attack

Laldenga, who was with Thangneo, escaped unhurt when the attack happened at around seven a.m. in the forest near P. Muolding village.

Village blames armed groups

The P. Muolding Village Authority blamed the attack on the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim and the Zeliangrong United Front. No group had claimed responsibility.

Kuki organisation calls shutdown

The Committee on Tribal Unity announced a twenty-four-hour total shutdown in Kangpokpi from Tuesday midnight to express collective anguish and demand justice and accountability.

Imphal Valley paralysed by Meitei strike

Educational institutions, shops and commercial establishments remained closed across five Meitei-dominated Imphal Valley districts during a forty-eight-hour strike protesting the killing of three Meitei civilians.

Protestors demand government resignations

Protestors blocked roads and burned effigies of Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh, Deputy Chief Minister Nemcha Kipgen and Home Minister Konthoujam Govindas, holding them responsible for law and order failures.

Opposition attacks government response

Former Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh said the Centre has chosen to remain a silent spectator despite its ability to rein in armed groups, questioning the government's moral authority.

“It is deplorable that the Centre has chosen to remain a silent spectator despite its ability to rein in the armed groups.”

Violence escalates over eleven days

The latest spate of violence began October ninth with a Kuki woman killed near the India-Myanmar border in Kamjong district. Eight more people were killed over the next twenty-four hours.