{"id":55164,"date":"2023-05-16T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/separation-is-the-only-answer-manipur-violence-fuels-calls-for-separate-state-in-india"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:23:44","slug":"separation-is-the-only-answer-manipur-violence-fuels-calls-for-separate-state-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55164","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Separation is the only answer\u2019: Manipur violence fuels calls for separate state in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the mainly Christian hill tribes say that living alongside the mostly Hindu Meitei people is \u2018as good as death for our people\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In towns and villages across India\u2019s north-eastern state of Manipur, some houses have been reduced to ashes while neighbouring properties stand untouched, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/05\/indian-troops-ordered-to-shoot-on-sight-amid-violence-in-manipur\">an eruption of ethnic violence<\/a> in which more than 70 were murdered and 30,000 forced to flee.<\/p>\n<p>The bloodshed which began on 3 May has mostly abated, but there is little hope of a swift return to normality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/separation-is-the-only-answer-manipur-violence-fuels-calls-for-separate-state-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the mainly Christian hill tribes say that living alongside the mostly Hindu Meitei people is \u2018as good as death for our people\u2019In towns and villages across India\u2019s north-eastern state of Manipur, some houses have been reduced to ashes while n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55165,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164\/revisions\/55165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}