‘Manipur Violence was Not Spontaneous, But Plannedand Ethnically Targeted’: PUCL Report

New Delhi: The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) on August 20 released the Independent People’s Tribunal on the Ongoing Ethnic Conflict in Manipur at the PressClub of India, New Delhi. The 694-page report, authored under the chairmanship offormer Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph, delivers the conclusion: “Theviolence which erupted on May 3, 2023, was not spontaneous but planned, ethnicallytargeted, and facilitated by state failures.”

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