Invisible borders tearing Manipur apart

Graves of some of the Kuki victims who died in 2023 in clashes with the Meiteis, at a cemetery in Churachandpur, Manipur. Three years after ethnic conflicts and rioting tore apart Manipur, the state remains in disarray. — Atul Loke/The New York Times

A FRESH outbreak of ethnic conflict is rocking India’s remote eastern state of Manipur.

Deadly ambushes, abductions and protest marches are cropping up in a land where such violence had already become routine.