Manipur violence, Over 3200 civil society members wrote to President Droupadi Murmu

The National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) on Sunday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her intervention in the ongoing crisis in Manipur.

Just days after a video of two Kuki-Zo tribal women being paraded naked in Manipur surfaced online, the NAPM also called “for comprehensive and time-bound judicial inquiry” into the incidents in the



state.

The letter had over 3,256 signatories, including environmental activist Medha Patkar, poet Meena Kandasamy and activist and former bureaucrat Harsh Mander.

It also decried the clamping down of internet services in Manipur, after violence started spreading in the state. “Instead of clamping down on internet services, the Govt. must clamp down on the perpetrators of crimes,” the letter read.