Manipur women paraded naked: Kuki survivor recounts ‘take of your clothes, or will kill you…’

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Scroll. Then as obeyed them to “protect herself", the men allegedly slapped and punched her.  The woman from the Kuki community said assault took place near her village, B Phainom, in Kangpokpi district on May 4, a day after clashes erupted between the two ethnic groups.  Speaking on the horrific incident, the survivor said after hearing about Meitei mobs "burning homes" in a nearby village, her family and others fled through a dirt lane but were discovered.

A neighbor and his son were killed nearby, and the mob assaulted the women, forcing them to strip. She added that the men dragged to a paddy field near the road and sked her to “lie down" there.

“I did as they told me, and three men surrounded me… One of them told the other, ‘let’s rape her’, but ultimately they did not," she told Scroll expressing that she was ‘lucky enough to escape’.  She, however, she was not aware of what was happening to her 21-year-old neighbour, because she was some distance away. Witnessing inaction against the violence, a senior officer with a paramilitary force, belonging to the Kuki community, told The Telegraph, Neither the state nor the central government seems to have the intent or the skills to handle the situation.

“You tend to lose all hope when you see police do nothing even after an FIR is drawn up and one eyewitness gives an account of the incident." On May 4, during the conflict's onset, an incident took place. The elder victim's relative lodged a complaint on May 13 at Saikul police station in Kangpokpi district as Meitei people controlled the area of occurrence.