{"id":56805,"date":"2023-07-20T22:14:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/20\/modi-speaks-out-after-video-of-sexual-assault-on-women-in-manipur-emerges"},"modified":"2023-07-20T22:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:14:06","slug":"modi-speaks-out-after-video-of-sexual-assault-on-women-in-manipur-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56805","title":{"rendered":"Modi speaks out after video of sexual assault on women in Manipur emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian PM had been criticised for failing to talk about deadly ethnic conflict taking place in north-eastern state<\/p>\n<p>The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has broken his months-long silence on the deadly ethnic conflict raging in the state of Manipur after a video emerged of women being stripped naked, paraded and assaulted before it is alleged they were gang raped.<\/p>\n<p>Outrage erupted across India after footage was circulated from Manipur of two women from the minority Kuki tribe being forcibly stripped naked by a mob of the majority Meitei tribal group who can be heard shouting: \u201cIf you don\u2019t take off your clothes, we\u2019ll kill you.\u201d The women are then publicly groped and dragged to a field, where it is alleged they were gang raped.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/20\/modi-speaks-out-after-video-of-sexual-assault-on-women-in-manipur-emerges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian PM had been criticised for failing to talk about deadly ethnic conflict taking place in north-eastern stateThe Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has broken his months-long silence on the deadly ethnic conflict raging in the state of Manipur &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1847,"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":[62,433,440,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-sexual-violence","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\/56805","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\/1847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56805\/revisions\/56806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}