#manipur riots

[hyperdemona]

TW: Violent rape, Manipur, India.

What's happening in Manipur?

This is a screenshot from the video of two Kuki tribal women being gang-raped in the North Eastern Indian state of Manipur. The video, recorded by the rapists is freely available online for the time being, although the Indian government is threatening legal action against Twitter for exposing the incident. The incident allegedly happened back in May, when the communal riots began in Manipur. We're only seeing it now, because the Internet has been shut down in the state since the rioting began. We don't know how many women have been victimised, we don't know how many people have perished. The rest of the country barely knows what's been happening in Manipur for the past months because of the Internet shutdown.

The police are complicit. The union government is complicit.

Manipur is burning.

https://m.thewire.in/article/rights/manipur-police-women-video-paraded-naked

HE is complicit.

During the Hathras rape, when the victim's body was unceremoniously burned by police after her family was locked inside.

During the Unnao rape when the victim's family was publicly threatened and abused by the rapists' upper caste community.

During the Kathua rape, where the victim was eight years old and murdered inside a temple.

During the Wrestler's protest, when Modi refuses to oust the rapist.

[tamilamericatv]

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Manipur Burning Voice of People. What is the real reason of Manipur Riots? Who is behind Manipur Riots?

Is it a structured Genocide against Christians? Mr John Prabhudoss, Co-Founder of FIACONA shares his views on “Manipur Burning Voice of People” on No 1 Tamil TV from America, Tamil America TV

மணிப்பூர் கலவரத்தின் காரணம் என்ன? மணிப்பூர் கலவரம் கிறிஸ்தவர்களுக்கு எதிரான இனப்படுகொல��யா? ஏன் கிறிஸ்தவ ஆலயங்கள் தாக்கப்பட்டு தீக்கிரையாக்கப் படுகின்றன? மணிப்பூர் எரிகிறது மக்கள் குரல் நிகழ்ச்சியில் FIACONA அமைப்பின் இணை நிறுவனர் திரு ஜாண் பிரபுதாஸ் தனது பார்வையை செயல்பாடுகளை அமெரிக்காவின் No 1 தமிழ்த் தொலைக்காட்சியான தமிழ் அமெரிக்கா தொலைக்காட்சியில் பகிர்ந்து கொள்கிறார்.

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[dumasia]

मेवात में मुसलमानों को बचाने के लिए जाट कूद पड़े, नफरतबाजों के मुंह पर क...

This is the right solution to save the entire India pushing towards riots and damage to property, finance, business, education, and more...दंगों की ओर बढ़ रहे पूरे भारत को बचाने और संपत्ति, वित्त, व्यापार, शिक्षा आदि को होने वाले नुकसान से बचाने का यह सही समाधान है...

[incorrectmahabharatquotes]

this is to the people mindlessly picking fights with y'all without even TRYING to understand another perspective that doesn't match theirs;

don't come on here, go, go and keep supporting such atrocities, go on and keep your eyes blindfolded in the name of religion, don't question anything going around you.

keep shouting mindlessly because unemployment, education, taxes, middle class struggles, inflation, the rising debt of our country, the shutdown on free and independent media channels, manipur burning, ye sab toh matter karti hi nai. isse thodina desh chalta hai, right?

desh toh religion ke upar vivad, riots, violence karne se chalta hai, right? hindu khatre mein hai, right??? apna pura dhyaan isme do taaki baki kuch ki importance toh dikhe hi na. sahi hai, uneducated youth = easier mobilisation.

just remember — historically or in the present times, we've all seen what has happened to a country which hyper-fixated on one particular religion beyond everything. humare neighbour, pakistan ko hi le lo. it's the prime example of what happens when politics becomes religion and NOTHING ELSE.

baaki, remember, an eye for an eye will make us all blind. and then, do try and see if the politicians and their bullshit that you guys fight for come and save us.

What hurts me is that most of these people are young, some are wee little children, they've been force-fed a very specific view of the world for over a decade now and they found that tiny, narrow view of the world so comforting that they live there now. They ignore reality to continue living that lie. The people that have fed them these lies continue to profit off of them.

Just today I saw these people call poor farmers 'terrorists'. How badly warped does your mind have to be to come to the conclusion that the poor people trying to change their living conditions by ASKING the government to change some laws is equal to terrorism? The act of people exercising their rights as citizens is deemed "anti-india".

Critical thinking has left the chat.

They will ignore pressing matters of the present to do historical revisionism. I wonder if they're scared to actually face the rapant problems India is facing. They will use the veneer of caring about their country and then talk about nothing of any consequence.

These people don't even understand that they're not fighting for their beloved religion. They're fighting a war of political party that does not care the slightest bit for them.

One of them was complaining that I was "freeloading" a tag. You know WHAT? If freeloading a tag means that there's a healthy amount of dissent in that tag, then I'll use it. They keep flooding it with xenophobia, casteism and all other sorts of bullshit. If they're allowed to spew that vile poison here, we should be allowed to counter and challenge their harmful words.

- Mod S

[shut-up-rabert]

Is bjp truly the reason why communal riots started in Manipur??

Nope.

Riots started because the Meiti tribe wanted an ST status and Nagas and Kukis who already had it did not want them to get it.

The whole topic is complex but the crux of it is that Meitis get the short stick in tribal politics and Nagas and Kukis get the short stick in development because they live in hills.

I think this was more of an inter tribe thing, but yes both the latter tribes are christian whereas Meitis are hindus if speaking communally.

The former wanted it to be able to preserve their culture, which is in danger with the rising evangelical and tribal sentiment in the other two (it is alleged that they have refugees of similar identities from Myanmar inflating their numbers)

The latter fears that Meiti will get a bigger stack in development than they already do.

Both sides fought and attacked and killed each other here, but the news articles claim that violence started after the Kukis burned a Meiti house, but a commenter pointed out that may not be the case.

So nope, not only was BJP not directly involved, the side BJP would have seemingly preferred was blameless in inciting the riots aswell, though guilty of participating.

[mariacallous]

Joshua Hangshing’s 7-year-old son died less than an hour after being shot in the head. But it wasn’t the bullet that killed him.

On June 4, Hangshing set off from a relief camp in the Kangpokpi district of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. He and his family had moved there for safety after fighting broke out the month before between the state’s majority Meitei community and the minority Kuki-Zo. Clashes had erupted that day just a mile away from the camp, so Hangshing ventured out to fetch water in case they needed to take shelter for a prolonged period.

As he returned to the camp, he saw Tonsing, his youngest child, waving gleefully at him from a first-floor window. Then Tonsing fell, shot in the head. “It couldn’t have been a stray bullet,” Hangshing says. “I suspect it was a sniper.”

Tonsing was still breathing when Hanshing reached him, but he had lost a lot of blood. When an ambulance arrived, Hanshing stayed behind while his wife went with their son to the nearest hospital, 10 miles away in the capital city of Imphal. They were halfway there when they were ambushed by militants, who set fire to the ambulance. Tonsing and his mother, Meena, were burnt alive.

The brutal murder of two innocent people is the kind of horror that should have made the news across India, even across the world. But Hanshing’s story is only coming out now, months on, because of an internet blackout covering the whole of Manipur. At least 180 people have died, and more than 60,000 people have been made homeless. Villages have been set alight and neighbors have lynched neighbors as the authorities fail to control the escalating violence. For three months, hidden from the eyes of the world, Manipur has burned in the dark.

The relationship between the predominantly Hindu Meitiei community, which makes up 53 percent of Manipur’s population, and the Kuki community, which accounts for 28 percent and is largely Christian, has long been frosty.

But the situation has deteriorated rapidly this year. A military coup and civil war in neighboring Myanmar has led to thousands of refugees moving into Manipur. Many of the new arrivals are of Kuki-Chin-Zo ethnicity, who are culturally and ethnically close to the local Kuki population. Some in the Meitei community have seen this as a threat to their political dominance. In late March, a court in Manipur awarded the Meitei “tribal status”—a protected status that gives them access to economic benefits and quotas for government jobs, and allows them to purchase land in the hillside areas where Kuki tribes are concentrated.

Kuki groups say giving the majority community access to minority protections will strengthen the Meitei’s stronghold over the state. Meitei groups accuse Kukis of importing weapons from Myanmar to fight a civil war. On May 3, some from the Kuki community staged a rally in Churachandpur district to protest the court ruling. After the protest, an Anglo-Kuki War memorial gate—marking a war between Kukis and the British in 1917—in Churachandpur was set on fire by Meiteis, which triggered riots that killed 60 in the first four days.

It was just the start of a wildfire of violence that would spread across the state, with barbaric murders, beheadings, gang rapes, and other crimes. Outnumbered, the minority Kukis have suffered most.

But as the fighting began, on May 4, the Indian government did what it has done time and time again when faced with internal conflict. It shut off the internet.

The national government has the power to order telecom providers to stop providing fixed-line and mobile internet, using an emergency law. It did it 84 times in 2022 and 106 times in 2021, according to Access Now, a nongovernmental organization that tracks internet disruptions.

Most of the shutdowns were in the disputed territory of Kashmir, but they have been applied across the country. In December 2019, internet shutdowns were imposed in parts of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam, and Meghalaya after protests over a proposed citizenship law that would have rendered hundreds of thousands of Muslims stateless. In January and February 2021, the internet was disrupted around Delhi, where farmers were protesting agricultural reforms.

The justification for these shutdowns is that it stops disinformation from spreading on social media and helps keep a lid on unrest. In May, in Manipur, the government said the blackout was “to thwart the design and activities of anti-national and anti-social elements and to maintain peace and communal harmony … by stopping the spread of misinformation and false rumors through various social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. … ” It didn’t work.

On the first day of the shutdown, a Meitei mob went on a rampage in Imphal, seeking out Kukis to attack. As the violence spread, two young Kuki women in their early twenties huddled in their room above a carwash, where they worked part time. But the mob found them. Witnesses told the women’s families that seven Meitei men barged into their room and locked the door from inside. For two hours, the door remained shut. People outside could hear the screams of the women, which became muffled with time. When the door opened, the two women were dead. The families are certain their daughters were raped before being murdered.

The father of one of the women, whom WIRED is not identifying in order to protect the identity of his daughter, says he was told by a nurse at a hospital in Imphal that his child had been killed. Nearly three months after her death, her body is still in Imphal, along with dozens of unclaimed bodies rotting in the city hospitals because the Kuki families in the hills can’t go to Imphal Valley to claim them.

“It was her dream to become a beautician and start her own parlor. She always wanted to be financially independent,” the father says. She had finished her course in Imphal and was tantalizingly close to living her dream. About two months before the incident, she had rented a place in the city where she could open her beauty parlor. “She took up a part-time job to support her dream,” her father says. “She was excited about her future.”

The violence between the two communities has spiraled. Nearly 4,000 weapons have reportedly been stolen from the police, according to local media. Some Kukis have accused the police—many of whom are from Meitei communities—of standing by while Kukis are being attacked, and even of supporting Meitei extremist groups. Hangshing’s wife and son were killed despite a police escort. “How did the mob burn down the ambulance in police presence?” he says. “What did the police do to protect my wife and son?”

The police in Imphal declined to comment.

Today there is almost complete separation between the two communities, both of whom have their private militias protecting their territories. Kuki areas in Imphal are completely deserted. Meiteis in Kuki-dominated districts have been driven out of the hills.

At a relief camp opened in a trade center in Imphal, Budhachandra Kshetrimayum, a Meitei private school teacher, says his village, Serou in the Kakching district, was attacked by Kuki militants on the night of May 28. “The firing started out of nowhere,” he says. “They barged into the village and began torching the Meitei houses.”

Kshetrimayum had two options: either stay inside and be burned with his house, or run to the house of a local lawmaker for safety and risk being shot dead on the way. He chose the latter. “Luckily, I survived the firing and reached his house, where several other Meiteis were hiding,” he says. “His bodyguards were on the roof, firing back at the Kukis so they couldn’t come and get us.”

The next morning, Kshetrimayum found his house reduced to rubble.

Not too far from his home lived the widow of a leading fighter for India’s independence against Great Britain. “When I went closer, I realized that they had burnt the house with his 80-year-old wife inside it,” he says. “I could see her skull amid the debris. Since that night, I have been living in relief camps. I wear other people’s clothes. I eat other people’s food. I am a refugee in my own state.”

These aren’t isolated stories. Across the state, I heard eyewitness accounts of lynchings and murders, rapes, riots, and the burning of homes. After largely ignoring the crisis in Manipur for weeks, over the past couple of weeks, journalists from across India have descended on the state, thanks to a single video that leaked out from under the shroud of the blackout.

It’s not clear how the footage got out. But the 26-second video was posted on Twitter on July 20. It shows two Kuki women in Kangokpi being stripped and paraded naked by a mob. The women’s families say they were later gang-raped.

The video shook the conscience of India and shed light on the gravity of the situation in the state. It compelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak about Manipur for the first time, 77 days after the violence broke out. “Any civil society should be ashamed of it,” he said.

After the police arrested one person accused of participating in the attack, N. Biren Singh, the chief minister of Manipur, tweeted that strict action would be taken against all the perpetrators. But the incident had happened months before, on May 4, the first day of the blackout. The husband of one of the women in the video claims that the police were on the spot when it happened, but did nothing to stop it. In other words, the police were compelled to take action after the video went viral. And this is just one sexual assault—one of many crimes��that’s happened in Manipur since May. The perpetrators in other cases are roaming free because there is no video to shame the authorities into pursuing them.

"The video that went viral is just the tip of the iceberg,” says TS Haokip, president of the Kuki-Zo Intellectual Council, an NGO formed by Kuki writers and teachers. “It is one case in which the state has acted because it went viral and caused a great deal of embarrassment to the state. But what about other victims who have suffered in obscurity?"

Indian authorities say that internet shutdowns like Manipur are done to preserve the peace, to stop misinformation spreading online and reassert control. Experts say they have the opposite effect. They allow impunity for crimes and for those who fail to pursue them. Had locals in Manipur been able to draw attention to the situation as it got out of control, the anarchy that followed might have been avoided. But the silence over the state meant the national government could feign ignorance. Human rights groups said they couldn’t collect evidence of violations or distribute them to colleagues overseas.

The blackouts cause further disruption to an economy made fragile by the violence, and hinder aid groups as they try to collect funds for relief work.

Young Vaiphei Association, a nonprofit organization, operates five relief camps in Churachandpur district, housing 5,000 people. Lainzalal Vaiphei, convener of the relief committee, says they’ve had to raise funds door-to-door. “But because the state is in a limbo, people have suffered economically as well. They don’t have money to donate.” Had the internet been operational in Manipur, the organization could have tapped donors from outside the state through social media, and raised money for medicines. “We are barely managing our resources,” Vaiphei says.

In such a volatile atmosphere, shutting down communications doesn't stop misinformation. Rumors always spread fast in conflicts; blacking out the internet often just means that there’s no way to verify whether the accounts that are spreading them are genuine.

“The disinformation still spreads but it is not being countered,” says Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia policy director at Access Now. Most fact-checkers are independent journalists or operate in small newsrooms. Even if they can fact-check a doctored video or a false claim, they have no way to spread their work widely.

This can help fuel violence, creating monopolies on information and allowing more extreme voices to dominate. “Shutdowns like these actually benefit the perpetrators in a conflict situation,” Chima says. “Whoever is more powerful or networked on the ground gets to set the narrative.”

As the two women in the July 4 video were paraded around the village, the inebriated men around them shouted, “We will do to you what your men did to our women.” The men claimed to be “avenging” a Meitei woman who had been allegedly raped and killed in the Kuki-dominated district of Churachandpur. A photograph claiming to be of her dead body wrapped in a plastic bag had made the rounds in Manipur. Except the woman in the photograph was from Delhi. The story was a fabrication.

The violence in Manipur has ruptured communities and left families with no way back to their old lives. For Neng Ja Hoi, a relief camp in K Salbung of Churachandpur district is now her home. On May 3, her husband, Seh Kho Haokipgen, was lynched while guarding their village of K Phaijang. Violence broke out and the police fired teargas. “He fell down during the commotion,” says Neng. “He somehow managed to get up but his vision was blurred because of the teargas. He ran for his life but he ran toward the Meitei mob, which beat him to death.”

Neng hasn’t really come to terms with her husband’s passing. “He was a religious pastor, and he traveled quite a bit for work,” she says, cradling her 11-month old baby, tears rolling down her face. “I tell myself he is still on one of his long religious journeys. He was the sole breadwinner of the house. How will I look after my kids?”

She sleeps in a tent in a small room with her three children. Her few possessions are crammed on a bench nearby. “I grabbed whatever I could from our house and ran with the kids,” she says. “They will grow up here.”

The warring sides have drawn something akin to battle lines in Manipur. Abandoned homes, charred vehicles, and scorched shops line the borders between communities. Both groups have set up bunkers in deserted villages. The only people here are volunteers from “village defense forces” with guns, guarding the territory from people who used to be their neighbors. The military is deployed in the buffer zone. Venturing into enemy territory is a death sentence.

That is exactly why Joshua Hangshing didn’t get in the ambulance with his son Tonsing. He is a Kuki. If he had accompanied his son to Imphal, there was no chance the two would have survived. But a hospital in a Kuki area was two hours away. With a bullet in his head, Tonsing had to be taken to the nearest possible facility. Hangshing’s wife, Meena, was a Meitei Christian. Even though she belonged to the minority among the majority Hindu Meiteis, the couple thought her presence in the ambulance would keep them safe.

As we talk about the breakdown in trust between communities, Hangshing reminisces about meeting Meena in the mid-2000s. He was working in Imphal, and Meena would pass his office to attend singing classes. “She had a lovely voice,” he says with a wistful smile. For them, it was love at first sight. It didn’t matter that they belonged to different ethnicities. “Her mother was against it initially,” he recalls. “But she came around.”

He has now moved to Kangpokpi Town, away from his village, which is too close to the border with Imphal. He doesn’t think he’ll go back. But he hopes that reconciliation between communities is possible. “If everybody who has suffered starts thinking about revenge, the cycle of violence will never stop,” he says. “The Bible has taught me to forgive.”

On July 25, the state partially lifted the blackout, allowing some fixed-line connections back online—with restrictions. However, most people in the state rely on mobile internet. Apar Gupta, a lawyer and founder of the campaign group the Internet Freedom Foundation, said the changes only benefit a “tiny” number of privileged people. “It is my firm belief the internet shutdown is to serve state interests in avoiding accountability and contouring the media ecology than any evidentiary law and order objective," Gupta tweeted. Manipur is still mostly in the dark. And while the violence has subsided as both sides stay within their territory, it hasn’t died out completely. In the border zones, shots still ring out. It’s still smoldering, and could burst back into flames at any time.

[hissterical-nyaan]

Country is in such a pathetic state that we have to table a no confidence motion to make our PM address the Manipur riots 🫡🫡

[hyperdemona]

what is wrong with you for you to publish a naked picture of a victim of gangrape on your blog, being dragged around by the men who raped her. why do you feel the need to exploit her further, why do you need to immortalize her suffering. you could have at least censored it, but you chose to just put it up for shock value. why did you think this was needed

If you aren't an Indian woman and don't even have the guts to come off anon, SHUT THE FUCK UP. That video is every Indian woman, from Bilkis Bano to the Unnao victim. If every Indian had to see that video, I'm going to make sure Radblr sees it too. Thanks to the Internet shutdown, it's been unknown until yesterday. We'd never known of it otherwise. And now the Union government is doing everything it can to scrub it off the Internet.

"Shock value" didn't even occur to me when I saw it. Any "shock value" it has is the outrage it's generating which is now forcing the Hindu Nationalist government to finally break their silence. If you can see the women are naked and what happened to them, you NEED to see all that. Who tf looks at that blurry image and thinks it's "further exploitation" when this is the only thing that documents what's happened and without which it would have gone unknown? I didn't post the video itself for obvious reasons, because one screenshot is all that's necessary. I won't "censor" it further, especially given that her face itself is unidentifiable from a screenshot.

If you saw that image, you should know there's been SEVERAL MORE of such incidents that haven't been similarly documented. Fuck your sensitive feelings.

[mybharatguru]

Gunfight between terrorists in Manipur

A gunfight broke out between terrorist groups in Manipur. Riots broke out in May last year between the Meithi and Kuki ethnic groups in Manipur. Even after a year, incidents of conflict are still going on here and there. Some of these ethnic groups have joined forces and are currently staging armed attacks. The central government has declared the group as terrorists. At the same time, these…

[currenthunt]

Law panel imposes heavy fine to tackle property damage

The 22nd Law Commission has recommended significant changes in the law to deal with damage to public property on February 2, 2024.The Law Commission has submitted its report titled "Review of the Law on Prevention of Damage to Public Property" to the Government of India.Keeping in mind the seriousness of the issue and the loss it would cause to the country's revenue, the Law Commission had taken suo motu cognizance of this issue.The report suggests measures ranging from tampering with evidence to imposing fines equal to the market value of damaged public property. Highlights of 284th report - People involved in damaging public property should get bail only after recovering an amount equal to the damage caused by them. - The Commission has recommended amendments in the 'Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984'. It also recommended making new laws to deal with 'intentional damage to public property' as follows - - by making a separate law - Or by amending the Indian Penal Code, 1860 - or the newly enacted Indian Judicial Code (BNS),Amend in 2023 The Commission has based its report on the following incidents - Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 - Jat Reservation Movement of the year, 2015 - Patidar Reservation Movement of the year, 2016 - Bhima Koregaon protest of the year, 2018 - Anti-CAA movement of the year, 2018 - Agricultural Law Movement of the Year, 2020 - Violence spread after comments made on Prophet Mohammed in the year 2020 - Clashes in Manipur in the year 2023 Highlights of 285th report - The Commission recommended retaining the offense of criminal defamation. - Open speeches need to be balanced to protect individuals from malicious falsehoods, which cause irreparable damage to a person's reputation. - The matter was referred to the legal panel by the Law Ministry in August, 2017. - This panel upheld the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in 'Subramanian Swamy vs. Union of India'. - In this decision, the Supreme Court had upheld the constitutionality of the offense of criminal defamation. - The Supreme Court had said that the right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(2) of the Constitution is subject to certain reasonable restrictions. - The Indian Judicial Code has protected the interests of victims by making punishment for crime a matter of community service and has also reduced the scope for abuse by providing alternative punishment. 22nd Law Commission - The 22nd Law Commission was notified on February 24, 2020. - Its tenure was to end on February 20, 2023. - On 22 February 2023, its tenure was extended till 31 August 2024. - The Commission is headed by Justice Ruturaj Awasthi, retired Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. Law commission - The Law Commission is a non-statutory body. - It is constituted from time to time by the Government of India. - The first Law Commission was constituted in the year 1955 for a period of three years. - It works as an advisor to the Ministry of Law and Justice. - Its main function is legal research and review of existing laws in India. - Its report helps the central government in making new laws. - The Law Commission consists of a whole-time Chairman, one Member-Secretary and four whole-time members. - The number of part-time members cannot exceed five. - A retired judge of the Supreme Court or a retired Chief Justice of a High Court is the chairman of this commission. Read the full article

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.11 (before 1940)

532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, and the Quraysh association of clans surrenders. 930 – Sack of Mecca by the Qarmatians. 1055 – Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire. 1158 – Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia. 1569 – First recorded lottery in England. 1654 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile. 1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur. 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. 1805 – The Michigan Territory is created. 1861 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States. 1863 – American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Arkansas Post concludes as General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture Fort Hindman and secure control over the Arkansas River for the Union. 1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas. 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created. 1912 – Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week. 1914 – The Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, sank after being crushed by ice. 1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage. 1922 – Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin. 1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments. 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California. 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

[gazetteweekly]

Modi and co using Sanatana ploy to divert attention; will face cases legally, says Udhayanidhi

He also launched a strident attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he was "globe-trotting", afraid of facing questions over the Manipur violence.

CHENNAI: Under intense attack from the BJP over his alleged anti-Sanatana Dharma remarks, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Thursday accused the saffron party leaders of “twisting” his statements and vowed to face all cases in this connection legally.

He also launched a strident attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he was “globe-trotting”, afraid of facing questions over the Manipur violence.

“For the last 9 years, all your (BJP) promises are empty promises. What have you exactly done for our welfare is a question currently being raised in unison by the entire country against an unarmed, fascist BJP government. It is in this background that the BJP leaders have twisted my speech at the TNPWAA conference as ‘inciting genocide’. They consider it a weapon to protect themselves,” he said.

What is surprising is that those like Union Minister Amit Shah and Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states were demanding action against him based on “fake news,” Udhayanidhi said.

“In all fairness, I should be the one filing criminal cases and other court cases against them for spreading slander while holding respectable positions. But I am aware that this is their mode of survival. They don’t know how else to survive, so I decided not to do that,” he said.

He was one of the political heirs of Dravidian stalwart, the late CN Annadurai, the founder of the DMK.

“Everyone knows that we are not enemies of any religion.”

“I would like to quote Anna’s comment on religions which remains relevant even today. If religion leads people towards equality and teaches them fraternity, then I too am a spiritualist. If a religion divides people in the name of castes, if it teaches them untouchability and slavery, I would be the first person to oppose religion,” he said quoting Annadurai.

He said DMK respects all religions that teach all lives are born equal.

“But without an iota of understanding about any of these, Thiru Modi and Co are solely dependent on such slanders to face the Parliamentary elections. On the one hand, I can only feel sorry for them. For the last 9 years, Modi has been doing nothing. Occasionally he demonetises money, builds walls to hide huts, builds new Parliamentary building, erects a Sengol (sceptre) there, plays around by changing the name of the country, standing at the border and making the white flag work,” he lashed out.

Has there been any progressive scheme from the Union government in the last nine years like the DMK’s “Pudhumai Penn” or the Chief Minister’s breakfast scheme or the Kalaignar’s women’s rights scheme, he asked. “Have they built the AIIMS in Madurai? Did they take forward any knowledge movement like the Kalaignar Centenary Library?”

“Afraid of having to face questions about Manipur in India, he is globe-trotting along with his friend Adani. The fact is, the ignorance of the people is the capital of their theatrical politics,” he claimed.

“Thiru Modi and co are using the Sanatana ploy to divert the attention from the facts including the killing of more than 250 people in the riots incited in Manipur and the Rs 7. 5 lakh crore corruption,” he charged.

There was a lot of work for the party workers, including preparing for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, he said and asked them to focus on that. “I would like to inform that I will face the cases filed against me legally with the guidance of our party president (TN CM MK Stalin) and on the advice of our party high command,” he added.

[shut-up-rabert]

so you will not talk about the wrestlers' protest on my fav right leaning centrist blog

Aww, are you trying to accuse me?

Look around anon, I have talked about the Manipur riots minimally, 2-3 posts out of which only one talks about the riots themselves and the other two are about media. Despite it is the side that ‘left wing’ supports that seems to have attacked first. Even in the post I talked about the issue, I got a comment to edit some bits.

Wanna know why? Because the chain of event isn’t clear yet.

Have you seen the wrestler’s protest?

Sexual assualt is a sensitive topic, and you can never be so sure of the side you chose. If you chose wrong, you are partly responsible for the suffering of victims.

The wrestlers have accused while refusing to give proof, a comittee was set up, they protested against the reports citing it to be rigged, the report has not been made public yet, they evaded barricades, they were joined by anti national elements from Shaheen Bagh, Farmer’s protests and congress sympathisers, Brij Bhushan poses Confidence in his side of the story and the wrestlers in theirs.

This fire did not leave my own house alone either. My mother commented against it because of lack of proof and long story short she had to threaten legal action to get loyalists off of her back.

Look at the Chandigrah University case, look at Bilkis Bano, look at Boys locker room, Look at Utsav Chakraborty. Has this country not seen enough times how choosing just one side of the story can ruin lives? What if Brij Bhushan is right? What if the Wrestlers are right?

What will I comment about when I don’t even know where the right side lies?

[mithliya]

tw for rape and violence, feel free to not read or delete

btw Idk how much yk about this, but whats happened/happening in india, in manipur isnt the first time smt like this has happened under modi. he was the chief minister of the state of gujurat and has been accused of allowing 2002 anti muslim riots

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-13170914

a muslim woman named bilkis bano was raped by 11 men (she was also pregnant at the time) and her family members were murdered including her 3yo daughter during those riots. and last year modi okayed release of these demons

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62574247

now she has to go to the courtroom AGAIN and offer a plea against her rapists and killers of her family and get retraumatized in the process

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bilkis-bano-rape-case-bilkisd-ppeal-against-remission-supreme-court-8881364/

if anyone had doubts about modi just being incompetent or smt seeing his response to what happened in manipur with those women, thats not it. hes a hindu nationalist and has always been one.

the more i learn about modi, the more horrified i am… he clearly doesn’t care about any indian women if he’s turning a blind eye to such horrific misogynistic violence.