{"id":54876,"date":"2023-05-06T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/05\/indian-troops-ordered-to-shoot-on-sight-amid-violence-in-manipur"},"modified":"2023-05-06T00:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:54:03","slug":"indian-troops-ordered-to-shoot-on-sight-amid-violence-in-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54876","title":{"rendered":"Indian troops ordered to \u2018shoot on sight\u2019 amid violence in Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands evacuated to army camps as authorities struggle to bring inter-ethnic tensions under control<\/p>\n<p>Indian troops have been deployed to the north-eastern state of Manipur with orders to \u201cshoot on sight\u201d and enforce a curfew as deadly clashes between tribal and non-tribal groups continue for the third day.<\/p>\n<p>The violence and arson has forced about 9,000 people to flee their homes in the remote state, which borders Myanmar. The state government has not given the number of deaths but the chief minister, N Biren Singh, said that \u201cprecious lives have been lost\u201d and at least 20 people were reportedly injured, including two local politicians.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/05\/indian-troops-ordered-to-shoot-on-sight-amid-violence-in-manipur\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands evacuated to army camps as authorities struggle to bring inter-ethnic tensions under controlIndian troops have been deployed to the north-eastern state of Manipur with orders to \u201cshoot on sight\u201d and enforce a curfew as deadly clashes between &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54877,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54876\/revisions\/54877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}