{"id":56850,"date":"2023-07-22T02:27:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/manipur-india-why-is-there-conflict-and-how-is-the-government-responding"},"modified":"2023-07-22T02:27:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:27:27","slug":"manipur-why-is-there-conflict-and-how-is-the-government-responding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56850","title":{"rendered":"Manipur: why is there conflict and how is the government responding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As violence between the Meitei and Kuki communities continues in north-east India, campaigners criticise the authorities\u2019 reaction and both sides warn of civil war <\/p>\n<p>Manipur is a state in north-east India with a population of more than three million. It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/05\/indian-troops-ordered-to-shoot-on-sight-amid-violence-in-manipur\">embroiled in an ethnic conflict since early May<\/a>, fought between the majority Meitei community and the minority Kuki tribe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/manipur-india-why-is-there-conflict-and-how-is-the-government-responding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As violence between the Meitei and Kuki communities continues in north-east India, campaigners criticise the authorities\u2019 reaction and both sides warn of civil war Manipur is a state in north-east India with a population of more than three million. It &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[370,516,62,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-hinduism","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56850","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56921,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56850\/revisions\/56921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}