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Extra troops are called in to try and maintain order in India's Manipur state in this Sept. 28, 2023 photo, as protesters tried to storm the home of the chief minister of the restive northeastern state plagued by sectarian violence. The sensitive border state of Manipur “is engulfed in violent anarchy,” says M. G. Devasahayam, a retired bureaucrat fromelite civil service cadre, who previously served as an army officer seeing action in war and engaging in internal security matters.
The fact that most of the 250 or so dead are Christians and over 400 churches have been destroyed in the state has helped consolidate the argument that the persecution is both ethnic and targeted against Christians. All the Kuki-Zo-Hmar are Christians, of Catholic and several Protestant denominations. The government says it is just ethnic strife.
Modi’s majordomo, federal Home Minister Amit Shah, controls the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Force, which have both failed in keeping the Hindu Meitei ethnic majority from continuing its armed campaign against the indigenous Kuki-Zo-Hmar tribals. The internecine battleground now has drones, sophisticated machine guns, and a variety of artillery pieces.
But for the average Christian outside the Northeast, Manipur’s Christians have fallen through a big hole in their collective short attention span. Violations of the FCRA conditions in the past have been effectively used to coerce congregations, many of whom have almost entirely withdrawn from empowerment work and the protests for mobilization of the people seeking their rights, often just food and medicare.
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