Scroll.in, citing a police complaint filed by the relatives of one of the survivors, reported that a woman was also gang-raped during the episode.Īccording to the report, based on the complaint, police said a zero first information report (FIR) was registered in the Saikul police station of the Kangpokpi district on May 18.Ī zero FIR allows any police station to accept and lodge a complaint before forwarding it to the relevant station, the report explained. “I did as they told me, and three men surrounded me … One of them told the other, ‘let’s rape her’, but ultimately they did not,” she said. The report further quoted the woman as saying that she was dragged to a paddy field near and ordered to “lie down”. All this while, she continued, the men slapped and punched her. She said she took off “every item of clothing” only in order to “protect herself”. “When we resisted, they told me: ‘If you don’t take off your clothes, we will kill you,’” the report quoted her as saying. She told Scroll.in that one of her neighbours and his son were killed by the mob, which also assaulted women, asking “to strip off our clothes”. The woman said she and her family, among others, were escaping after they heard that Meitei mobs were “burning homes” in a nearby village. Scroll.in said it spoke to one of the women seen in the video who said the incident took place in her village in Kangpokpi district on May 4, a day after clashes erupted. Today, Indian news website Scroll.in reported a video of two Kuki women, in which “scores of young men can be seen walking alongside as other men drag the distressed-looking women into the fields” had emerged. The EU parliament last week said the violence has “left at least 120 people dead, 50,000 displaced and over 1,700 houses and 250 churches destroyed” in the state on the Myanmar border that is governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. Violence in Manipur between members of the mainly Christian Kuki ethnic group, who mostly live in the hills, and the mostly Hindu Meiteis, the dominant community in the low lands, erupted on May 3, sparked by resentment over economic benefits and quotas in government jobs and education reserved for hill people. A video has emerged of two women being paraded naked by a mob in what has been identified as India’s violence-hit Manipur state, according to local media reports, which say that a case has been registered over the incident against “800-1,000 unknown miscreants”.
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