Babu Verghese, an author, journalist and consultant for several Christian television channels, who was recently in Manipur, both in the valley and in the hills, and spoke widely to people of both the Meitei and Kuki communities, says that the horrifying videos and reports that surfaced in the last week of killings, burning and rapes are “just the tip of the iceberg”.
Babu Verghese says that the full truth, when its known, will be far worse than what we know today.
No steps have been taken by any law enforcement to stop or detain the leaders or members of the extremist outfits viz. Meitei Leepun, Aramboi Tengol, or the Meira Paibis, that are leading the ethnic & communal cleansing. Today they attacked Torbung with guns and bombs. guns and bombs! How will Kukis defend themselves? This is a massacre, a slaughter.
Neither the army nor the state police treat Kashmiris, not even Kashmiri women, with a tenth of the gentleness they have showed the extremists in Manipur, and that is because they lack political direction.