“Explained: The Road to Peace in Manipur travels through Myanmar’s Chin province”, Swarajyamag, April 10, 2025:
“A tenuous peace, threatened occasionally by abductions and killings, has settled over Manipur that had been wracked by ethnic strife since May 2023. But the distinct reduction in the scale of violence witnessed for the better part of 2023 and early 2024 has not paved the path for return to normalcy as yet.
The ethnic divide, and mistrust, between the Meities and Kukis, and even the Kukis and Nagas, still exists. Talks between representatives of the Meitei and Kuki communities that are being brokered by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) have gotten off to a nebulous start, but it will take a long time for the two communities to bury the hatchet and smoke the peace pipe.
However, lasting peace in Manipur will remain a chimera till Kuki-Chin militants, especially the ones from the Chin state of neighbouring Myanmar, lay down arms or leave Manipur. And that can only happen once the Chin militants in Myanmar score a decisive victory over the ruling junta and take full and total control of the Chin state…….”
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