Manipur: 41 People Of Meitei Community Reach Assam From Mizoram After Threat Over Video

India

oi-Prakash KL

Forty-one
Meitei
people
have
reached
Assam
from
Mizoram
after
an
ex-militants’ group
asked
the
community
to
leave
the
state
following
the
viral
video
of
two
women
being
paraded
naked
in
Manipur,
officials
said
on
Sunday.

Cachar’s
Superintendent
of
Police
Numal
Mahatta
said
these
people
reached
Silchar
from
neighbouring
Mizoram
on
Saturday
night
and
they
have
been
kept
at
the
building
of
the
Lakhipur
Development
Block
in
Binnakandi
area.

“These
are
all
well-to-do
families
and
they
came
in
their
own
vehicles.
Some
are
college
professors,
while
some
work
as
senior
government
officials.
They
said
that
there
have
been
no
attacks
in
Mizoram
as
of
now,”
he
told
PTI.

They
said
that
the
Mizoram
government
was
providing
all
security
to
them,
but
they
themselves
did
not
want
to
take
any
risk
and
came
to
Assam
for
their
own
safety,
he
added.
“They
are
saying
that
they
will
stay
here
till
the
situation
normalises,”
the
SP
said,
adding
that
Assam
Police
is
providing
security
to
them.
Thousands
of
people
from
Meitei,
Kuki
and
Hmar
communities
fled
Manipur,
and
have
been
living
in
Assam
since
ethnic
violence
erupted
in
that
state
on
May
3.

The
Mizoram
government
on
Saturday
reassured
the
Meitei
community
living
in
the
state
of
safety
and
told
them
not
to
pay
heed
to
rumours.
The
government’s
assurance
came
amid
reports
of
some
Meiteis
fleeing
the
state
following
an
‘advisory’ by
an
ex-militants’
association
of
Mizoram
asking
them
to
leave
due
to
tension
triggered
by
the
viral
video
of
two
women
being
paraded
naked
by
a
mob
in
Manipur.

Mizoram
Police
said
several
Meitei
people
left
for
their
home
states
on
Saturday
amid
mounting
tension.
A
few
thousand
Meiteis,
mostly
from
Manipur
and
south
Assam,
live
in
Mizoram.
Meanwhile,
the
Trinamool
Congress
on
Sunday
alleged
that
an
18-year-old
girl
was
assaulted
and
gang-raped
in
Imphal
East
district
of
Manipur
on
May
15,
days
after
the
two
women
were
stripped
and
paraded
naked.

Quoting
a
report
appearing
in
a
section
of
the
press,
the
ruling
party
of
West
Bengal
claimed
on
Twitter,
“The
tragedy
doesn’t
end
for
Manipur!”
“An
18-year-old
girl
was
handed
over
to
four
armed
men
by
women
vigilantes.

She
was
later
assaulted
and
gang-raped
in
Imphal
East
in
Manipur
on
May
15.
If
such
brutal
cases
are
coming
in
the
public
eye
after
more
than
a
month,
what’s
still
hidden
must
be
truly
gruesome,” it
tweeted.
The
TMC,
a
delegation
of
which
visited
the
northeastern
state
recently,
wondered
when
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi,
Union
Home
Minister
Amit
Shah
and
Manipur
Chief
Minister
N
Biren
Singh
“take
accountability
for
the
complete
law
and
order
failure”.