Manipur’s ‘unknown’ killers: Three years of India’s bloody ethnic conflict
Key takeaways
- The violence in the remote state not only endures, but has mutated and deepened, though the assailants often remain officially unnamed or unidentified.
- Their father, a paramilitary soldier with India’s Border Security Force (BSF), was on duty hundreds of kilometres away in Bihar state when he came to know of the killing.
- She hadn’t even learned to speak yet, but she recognised my voice.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
The violence in the remote state not only endures, but has mutated and deepened, though the assailants often remain officially unnamed or unidentified.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Family members mourn during the funeral of an infant and a five-year-old killed in Tronglaobi, Manipur in April 2026 [Tanushree Pandey/ Al Jazeera]By Tanushree Pandey Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026Manipur, India – The loud wails of a 37-year-old nurse pierce the air as she crouches near two coffins to grieve the killing of her infant daughter and five-year-old son in a blast last month.
A woman tries to comfort the mother as dozens of men and women, most of them dressed in ceremonial white, congregate on top of a truck carrying the two coffins and around the vehicle in Tronglaobi town in Bishnupur district of northeastern India’s Manipur state.