In yet another horrific video emerging from Manipur, the body of a tribal man is seen being set on fire in a trench. A police official said the video appeared to be from early May and that they were investigating the case.
The seven-second video, marked as “Kuki”, was shared on several WhatsApp groups in Manipur on October 8. It shows a man, in a black T-shirt and camouflage trousers, lying in a trench. The face has been bludgeoned and the body is on fire. It is not clear if the man was burnt alive.
A representative of a Kuki-Zo organisation said they were trying to ascertain the identity of the person as during the violence, around five or six people from the community were said to have been burnt alive.
Internet blocked in Manipur
Mobile Internet has been blocked in Manipur since May 3, when ethnic violence between the tribal Kuki-Zo and the majority Meitei people erupted in the State.
It was briefly restored on September 23, before being blocked again after photos of the bodies of two Meitei students who went missing in July surfaced on social media on September 25, leading to massive protests in the Valley areas.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team arrested four persons, including two women, for the alleged crime. The bodies of the two students are yet to recovered.
On July 19, the video of a May 4 incident reported from Thoubal emerged on social media. The video showed two women who were stripped and paraded by a mob. The police arrested nine people after the video surfaced. Two male relatives of one of the women was killed by the mob which was armed with sophisticated weapons, including AK-47 rifles.
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