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Click to expand Image A demonstration against sexual violence targeting women and ongoing ethnic violence in India's northeastern state of Manipur, in Imphal, July 21, 2023. 2023 AFP via Getty Images For more than two months, India's Manipur state has been wracked by ethnic violence between Kuki tribal groups and the majority Meitei community. More than 100 lives have been lost and tens of thousands displaced. But it was only after a video emerged this week from May 4 showing a Meitei mob stripping and parading two Kuki women that India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to react. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the incident a "disgrace for the entire country." The BJP's chief minister in Manipur state, N. Biren Singh, announced arrests, defending the delay in responding to the police complaint in May by claiming, bizarrely, that "hundreds of similar cases have taken place" and explaining "[t]hat is why the Internet has been shut ....

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