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Bengaluru: Think of Manipur today and the first impression is no longer football but the prolonged ethnic violence that has gripped the North-Eastern state since 2023.
Recent attempts to restore peace in the Imphal valley offered brief hope but fresh clashes earlier this month exposed how deep the divide still runs between the Meiteis (the majority community living in the plains) and the Kuki-Zo tribes, a Tibeto-Burman-speaking minority settled in the hills.
“Any respect between Meiteis and Kukis is not possible at the moment. If you hear that militants killed a five-year-old boy and a six-month-old baby girl in a bomb blast, how do you expect any peace?” a young footbal...
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