{"id":231168,"date":"2023-12-21T01:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231168"},"modified":"2023-12-21T01:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T20:16:21","slug":"manipur-violence-bodies-of-87-kuki-zo-victims-buried-in-churachandpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/manipur-violence-bodies-of-87-kuki-zo-victims-buried-in-churachandpur\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur violence: Bodies of 87 Kuki Zo victims buried in Churachandpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IMPHAL, Dec 20:<\/strong> The bodies of 87 Kuki Zo victims of ethnic violence were laid to rest in Manipur&#8217;s Churachandpur district headquarters on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Forty-one of the bodies were airlifted from different mortuaries in Imphal on December 14 while 46 were from Churachandpur district hospital, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of people turned up to pay their final respects to the departed souls amid prohibitory orders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A condolence service was organized at Tuib-uong followed by the mass burial amid restrictions imposed under section 144 CrPC after a violent clash on Monday night over the burial left around 30 injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on December 15, nineteen violence victims were laid to rest in Kangpokpi district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ethnic clashes broke out in Manipur on May 3 after a &#8216;Tribal Solidarity March&#8217; was organized in the hill districts of the state to protest against the Meitei community&#8217;s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur&#8217;s population and live mostly in the Imphal valley. Tribals &#8212; Nagas and Kukis &#8212; constitute little more than 40 per cent and reside in the hill districts. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, Dec 20: The bodies of 87 Kuki Zo victims of ethnic violence were laid to rest in Manipur&#8217;s Churachandpur district headquarters on Wednesday, officials said. Forty-one of the bodies were airlifted from different mortuaries in Imphal on December 14 while 46 were from Churachandpur district hospital, they said. Thousands of people turned up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}