Mizoram increases security for Meiteis in Aizawl after Manipur sexual assault

The Mizoram government on Friday increased security in areas with Metei populations in Aizawl after a group of former militants urged members of the community to leave the state “for their own safety”.

“The way our tribe Kuki-Zo has been tortured and mistreated in Manipur state is now known to the whole world,” the Peace Accord MNF Returnees’ Association said in a statement on Friday. “It is not unsafe for the Meitei people in Mizoram to continue to stay. PAMRA requests them to leave. If they fail to leave and anything befalls them it will be their own responsibility.”

Several people from the Meitei community left Aizawl and other parts of Mizoram by flights, buses and taxis on Saturday after the warning. According to the Manipur government, there are about 2,000 Meiteis in Mizoram, reported The Hindu.

The group’s warning came two days after a video showing two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob in the Kangpokpi district was widely shared on social media. Five persons have been arrested in connection with the case.

Three women, including the two who were seen in the video, were sexually assaulted in B Phainom village of Kangpokpi district on May 4, a day after clashes erupted between Meitei and Kuki communities. One of the women...

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