By Elf Hmar The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) made on the April 23, 2010 amongst the government of Manipur (GoM), the Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) Limited and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited, for the construction of Tipaimukh Dam, was signed...
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A community video has helped over 500 people in a remote village of Manipur in North East India get healthcare for the first time. An IndiaUnheard video by Daniel Mate, our correspondent from Chandel district...
After 69 day-long economic blockade, the economy of Manipur state in India is in trouble again. This is its from flowering of bamboo. A video produced by a local reporter from interior Manipur brings in light this phenomenon which is rare, natural and also...
Conflict kills but the reason behind this conflict is very unique and probably first of its kind.In latest incident in North east India, militant groups are tragetting the migrant workers from the hindi speaking...
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The serial bomb blasts in the major urban centers of Assam were a bloody reminder of the insurgencies that are raging in India’s north-eastern parts. The fact these took place just ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit was a warning from the militants that the coming...
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Frustration is constantly on the rise in Indian soldiers posted in troubled parts of the country, as the incidents of shooting colleagues by soldiers is growing for the past few years. In the latest such incident, a soldier of Assam Rifles killed five colleagues and a...
A large group of women and children in eastern Indian state of Assam have protested against the violence and gun culture in their area. The children, all younger than 13, held their protest today carrying placards...
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Yet again, Tipaimukh is in the media not for good but for all the dark events taking place over there. It seems as though good things are a scarcity in this god-forsaken region since 2006. First, in 2006 it was the mass rape, molestation of Hmar women and torture and planting...
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By Elf Hmar, 19 January, 2008Two years is a very long time. But what would it be for those who are living with severe traumatised past? Even a single day would have stretched like a millennium. Ugly memories of rape, molestation, loss, shame, helplessness, forced upon them...
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:By Lalmalsawm Sungte: Nov 21 ::::UPDATES::::
Nov 15: Bamboo flowering season may be happy times for swamping rats but hapless farmers in southwest Manipur (a state in northeast India) are...
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::By Robert Lalmalsawm::
The Hmar Student’s Association (HSA) has called upon the government of Manipur to make public the report of the Rajkhowa Commission that had conducted an inquiry into the alleged rape of 27 Hmar tribal women-- some under age-- by cadres of the...
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::By Robert Lalmalsawm::
Hardly a year has passed since 21 tribals belonging to the Hmar tribe were allegedly raped by cadres of United National Liberation Front (UNLF) militants in this remote northeastern...
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::By Robert Lalmalsawm:: The Hmar National Army(HNA) has called upon leaders of the Mizoram Peoples Conference(MPC), Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee(MPCC) and ZNP to "lead and guide the youth in the right direction."
The latest call from the militant outfit...
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An indefinite curfew is in force in the town of
Moreh in the north-east Indian state of Manipur, where 15 people died
in ethnic violence over the weekend.
Paramilitary soldiers have orders to shoot on sight anyone breaking the curfew to maintain law and order.
Moreh sits on...
Elf Hmar, 10 April 2007
In the last fifteen months or so, human rights in Manipur has
brought about a new dimension on the issue and also evoked a lot of
murmurings. Most of them were, unfortunately, of disbelief on the role
of the “new” actors of crime against...
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