{"id":54983,"date":"2023-05-10T04:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/indian-villages-burned-ethnic-violence"},"modified":"2023-05-10T04:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:44:52","slug":"everything-is-gone-entire-indian-villages-burned-in-ethnic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54983","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everything is gone\u2019: entire Indian villages burned in ethnic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,700 houses in Manipur have been destroyed in clashes between Meiteis, who are mostly Hindus, and mainly Christian Kuki tribe<\/p>\n<p>The road to Heirokland is smooth and freshly laid, with a sign proclaiming it part of an Indian government development initiative. But ethnic violence has reduced the village itself to little more than smouldering ashes.<\/p>\n<p>Sanatomba picked through the ruins of his sister\u2019s home in the north-eastern state of Manipur, trying to salvage anything of value, but could only recover a traditional stool.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/indian-villages-burned-ethnic-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,700 houses in Manipur have been destroyed in clashes between Meiteis, who are mostly Hindus, and mainly Christian Kuki tribeThe road to Heirokland is smooth and freshly laid, with a sign proclaiming it part of an Indian government development i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3728,"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-54983","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\/54983","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\/3728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54983\/revisions\/54984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}