Protestors from a tribal community carry umbrellas to shelter from the sun amid heatwave and hold placards during a demonstration in New Delhi on May 4, 2024, to mark a year of the ongoing ethnic conflict in the remote northeastern state of Manipur since armed clashes broke out between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and mainly Christian Kuki community. Manipur state on India's border with Myanmar has since May 2023 been riven by ethnic conflict that has claimed the lives of at least 200 people. - AFP
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters): Security forces were on heightened alert in India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur since Friday, the first anniversary of the start of clashes between the majority Meitei community and tribal Kukis that have killed at least 220 people.
The remote state bordering Myanmar has been hit by violence since May 3 last year after a court ordered the state government to consider extending special economic benefits and quotas in government jobs and education enjoyed by the Kukis to the majority Meiteis as well.
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