Modi condemns state ethnic violence‘MOBOCRACY’: The opposition party called on the prime minister to speak about the violence in Manipur, saying the country would never forgive him for his silenceAP, NEW DELHIIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday broke more than two months of public silence over deadly ethnic clashes in the northeast, saying that the assaults of two women as they were being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur state were unforgivable. The shell of a burnt house stands following ethnic clashes and rioting in Sugnu in the Indian state of Manipur on June 21. The clashes have persisted, despite the army’s presence in Manipur, a state of 3.7 million people tucked in the mountains on India’s border with Myanmar that is now divided in two ethnic zones. Police said the assault on the two women happened on May 4, a day after the violence started in the state. They are from the Kuki-Zo community, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum, a tribal organization in Manipur, said in a statement.

Source: Taipei Times July 20, 2023 17:15 UTC