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DIMAPUR The Indigenous Women Forum of Northeast India (IWFNEI) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) have condemned the outbreak of ‘ethnic violence in Manipur and the carnage that followed.’ Calling for an immediate cessation of violence, IWFNEI and AIPP, in a joint press communiqué, alleged that the events that unfolded have brought to light the totally inept handling of the situation by the Manipur state government and its highly questionable role that has resulted in loss of lives and properties, displacements, burning of places of worship and houses and other numerous human rights violations. Such human rights violations constitute blatant crimes against humanity, the two organisations said. “It has been observed that Manipur has been rife with ethnic tensions for long due to divisive majoritarian politics, social discrimination, inequitable distribution of development funds and lack of transparency in recruitment to Government jobs,” the joint communiqué stated. In
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For the last many decades, the people of Manipur and the Northeast have been facing such types of massacres since the imposition of AFSPA, 1958 by the Government of India, the protesters said.
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