- The United States on Sunday said it was deeply concerned over the sexual assault of Kuki women in Kangpokpi district of Manipur, Reuters reported. A US State Department spokesperson said that the incident was “brutal” and “terrible”. Washington conveyed its sympathies to the survivors, the spokesperson added, according to Reuters. On July 19, a video showing two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob in the Kangpokpi was widely shared on social media. Three women, including the two who were seen in the video, were sexually assaulted on May 4. One of them was “brutally gang-raped”, according to a police complaint.
- The Manipur Police have identified 12 to 14 persons seen in the video of the Kangpokpi sexual assault, The Hindu reported. Six persons, including a juvenile, have been arrested so far in the case. The police filed a first information report on May 18 but made the first arrest only last week after the video surfaced. According to The Hindu, the police have detained over 13,000 persons in preventive custody over the past two weeks to rein in the ethnic violence between Kuki and Meitei communities that has been raging since early May. More than 150 persons have been killed and over 60,000 displaced in the violence.
- The Manipur Police on Sunday registered…
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