Centre for Research and Advocacy, Manipur expressed its concern with the reported assault on indigenous women by the Indian security forces deployed to control the ethnic violence in Manipur.
A peaceful protest held by a group of women in Singjamei Chinga Makhong took a violent turn on Monday night at around 10 pm resulting in the injury of at least 19 women.
Hundreds of women marched in Imphal and wanted to meet chief minister N Biren Singh to submit a memorandum. They said that they wanted to meet the chief minister and plead with him to resolve the conflict at the earliest. As they began a peaceful rally from Singjamei Market, a combined team of Rapid Action Forces and state forces stopped them at the traffic point of Singjamei Chinga Makhong, Imphal.
Manipur's opposition Congress on Monday again demanded resignation of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, noting that despite 75 days having passed after the ethnic violence broke out, the state government utterly failed to restore normalcy and .