Editorial

It was not the admission per se that would have grabbed the attention of the listeners or observers but the manner in which it was said. On June 25 evening, a video clip of a news conference addressed by office bearers of the Kuki-Zo Council went viral on..

One wonders what has happened to the dialogue/meetings held at Delhi between civil society organisations representing the Meiteis and the Kukis. More importantly when was the last time such a meeting was held ? Sometime in late November of 2024 the Union..

Nothing can be more important than justice for the slaughtered six Naga men and that is exactly what the All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) did while staging a march in the heart of Imphal city on June 20. The rally did not march over a..

It is more than obvious. Even after more than three years of the violence erupting in all its ugliness on May 3, 2023, Delhi is still  groping in the dark on how to deal with it. Law and order is a State subject but there is a reason why fingers need..

For over three years, 80 percent or more of the opinions expressed in this commentary column of The Sangai Express has been on the ongoing state of unrest here and not surprisingly so. Afterall which State in India has been caught in a state of conflict b..

To get even a rough understanding of the situation in Manipur today, right now, on June 12, one just has to look back at the  last 30 days. On May 13, three Church leaders of the Thadou people were killed while on their way back to Kangpokpi from Chu..

They kill, they lie. And they have taken the art of lying to a new high. It was some time back, when the demand that the six abducted Naga men be released that the grand, old organisation of the Kuki people, christened the Kuki Inpi, Manipur issued a publ..

The common narrative that runs through is unmistakable. The mayhem took place on May 7, 2026. On May 9 a team led by Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam visited the affected border villages of Namlee, Wanglee and Z Choro in Kamjong district equipped with th..

Manipur woke up to yet another chilling news on June 5, 2026 and information of the killing of yet another three people was received with the question, is there a Government in place or not ? No one knows who or which group carried out the attack, but the..

A natural outcome or a development pushed by the emerging political reality of the day, but it is significant to note that a Native People’s Committee, Manipur has been formed in the face of the onslaught against the Meiteis and the Nagas. One commo..

To many, particularly to the family members concerned, June 1, 2026 will surely be remembered as the day of ‘up’ and ‘down’. The day began with talks doing the round that the 14 Kuki people kept hostage since June 13 would be relea..

Back on May 23, 2002, a certain Mr Paolienlal Haokip wrote in a publication of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies that during the Burmanisation programme of Ne Win in 1967-1969, a number of refugees made their way into the North Eastern States of..

As a newspaper hitting the newsstand in the morning of September 12, 1999, after a number of then young men and women went to work on September 11, 1999, The Sangai Express has seen and experienced it all. Hence in a position to tell the story from 1999 t..

It is marathonesque. At least 65 percent of the commentaries carried in this column for over three years, that is since May 5, 2023, has centred around the ongoing clash between the Meiteis and Kukis and since April this year, the focus has been on the Na..

It is now no more a question of rescuing the six abducted Naga men, but more of expecting the great Indian security forces to uncover the truth behind their disappearance. A case of six fully grown men disappearing after they were first accosted by Kuki c..

The writ of those pulling the strings or controlling the remote control certainly extends far and wide and in doing so the mischief they are up to must be obvious to all. On May 13 Manipur woke up to the disturbing news of three Church elders or leaders o..

The hostage drama is scary and at the moment the scariest part is the Government does not seem to know how many are  exactly being held hostage on either side. Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam, while interacting with family members of the man killed..

Ongoing Meitei-Kuki clash. Ongoing Naga-Kuki clash primarily in Ukhrul district. Broad daylight ambush and assassination of at least three Thadou Church leaders including former general secretary of Manipur Baptist Convention along the Churachandpur-Kangp..

For reasons which must be obvious to all, Government schools do not attract large number of students, except for some few  and that too those located in Imphal. However the report that nearly 55 percent of Government schools recorded extremely low en..

It is a big catch, or at least this is what the Narcotics Control Bureau wants to convey in arresting what it calls a ‘major Myanmar based drug trafficker’. The key is the claim that in arresting the ‘major drug trafficker’, the NC..

Back as Chairman of the Unified Command and it is only right that Manipur expects Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand to study and see if he can take the travel by road, first to Jiribam and then to Senapati via Kangpokpi, exercise further. The first such vis..

Manipur, particularly the Meiteis cannot afford to lose focus. The anger and the sense of frustration against the abject failure of the security personnel to ensure the security of people, even while staying indoors and sleeping on their own beds in the d..

The stand of the people is clear. Weed out the illegal immigrants before the census is conducted. In as much as the stand of the people is clear, it also stands that the Election Commission of India has already rolled out the process for the census, with..

The next Assembly elections will come in a jiffy, and while all talks around the next polls seem to centre on the question of whether the BJP will return or whether the Congress will emerge the biggest party, all political parties and their think tank see..

This is not acceptable and time to show there is a Government in place. Since the evening of May 3, 2023, the highway connecting Imphal to Dimapur and onward to Guwahati has remained off limits to the Meiteis. Likewise no Kuki-Zo people would deem it safe..