{
 "no": 26,
 "id": "case-26",
 "sk": 20230503,
 "year": 2023,
 "date": "03 May 2023 onward",
 "cat": "Public safety",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Manipur. A state on fire, and months of silence",
 "stamp": "20 months to a resignation",
 "human": {
  "v": "~<b>258</b> killed, <b>60,000+</b> displaced, 1,000+ injured, thousands of homes and religious sites burned",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A state cleaved in two by ethnicity; long internet blackouts and economic collapse",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities erupted in May 2023 and ground on for nearly two years, with reports of state complicity and horrific gender-based violence.",
 "dodge": "The Prime Minister stayed publicly silent for around three months and stayed away far longer. The BJP Chief Minister clung on through some 20 months of continuous killing, resigning only in 2025 under a looming no-confidence motion, after which rights groups noted that accountability for the violence still had not come. A burning state was treated as an inconvenience to be managed.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "N. Biren Singh",
   "r": "Manipur CM (BJP), resigned Feb 2025"
  },
  {
   "n": "Amit Shah",
   "r": "Home Minister"
  },
  {
   "n": "Narendra Modi",
   "r": "Prime Minister"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government cited security operations, central forces and later President's Rule, and blamed cross-border factors.",
 "alleg": "Allegations of state complicity, including an audio clip attributed to the CM, went to the Supreme Court for forensic examination and remain <em>contested and under process</em>.",
 "alt": "Swift accountability at the top, an independent inquiry into complicity, protection and return of the displaced, and justice for gender-based crimes.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Amnesty on the impunity",
   "url": "https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/india-authorities-must-uphold-human-rights-and-end-violence-in-manipur-following-biren-singhs-resignation/",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "CM resigns after ~2 years (Reuters)",
   "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-violence-hit-indian-state-152727365.html",
   "tier": 3,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250211095029/https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-violence-hit-indian-state-152727365.html"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 258
 },
 "resignations": [
  {
   "n": "N. Biren Singh",
   "office": "Manipur Chief Minister",
   "when": "Feb 2025",
   "year": 2025,
   "level": "state",
   "party": "BJP"
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-26/"
}