Meiteis have long blamed minority Kukis for the state’s rampant drug problems and accused them of harboring migrants from Myanmar. In some ways, the bitter fight between the two factions is driven by deeply rooted problems that have festered for years. Biren Singh said that the government and armed forces had been “able to control the violence to a great extent in the past week.” However, Singh’s visit on Sunday to a front line coincided with fresh clashes that left three people dead, officials said. The state government, nonetheless, has assured Manipur is returning to normalcy. A shopkeeper stands next to a poster criticising the silence from Prime Minister Narendra Modi following ethnic clashes and rioting, in Imphal, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Thursday, June 22, 2023.
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