For a state that has imposed curfews, internet restrictions, and heavy militarisation, the violence has curiously not even shown signs of declining. Source: The Wire

Deepanshu Mohan

After a harrowing video of two Kuki women being paraded naked in Manipur’s Kangkopi went viral on social media platforms, state functionaries, local politicians, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were all almost compelled to break their silence. But this came after almost 80 days of apathetic silence on the ethnic violence across the state and the North East.

The anger from state officials and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s narrative-management agency so far has been directed more at the fact on how the news of violence came out – or how the opposition doesn’t address issues of violence against women in their own states – as against resolving the current crisis in Manipur for which the home minister, the chief minister and his government can be held directly responsible.

Unsurprisingly, in his speech outside the parliament, the prime minister not only strategically avoided taking accountability, or accepting responsibility for what has happened over the last two months, he left his remarks on calling the incident ‘shameful’. Jahnavi Sen and Soumashree Sarkar recently wrote for The Wire on what else Prime Minister Modi failed to acknowledge or address in what he spoke…

https://thewire.in/women/manipur-sexual-violence-bjp-apathy-patriarchy