The flow of refugees from Myanmar after the violent coup in 2021 has inflamed longstanding ethnic tensions in the Indian state of Manipur.
IMPHAL, India — The capital of India’s Manipur state, Imphal, until very recently boasted shiny showrooms featuring international brands and hosted delegates from the world’s wealthiest countries for, showing this border province as part of a prosperous, new business-minded India on the rise. Now it is a city of blackened and abandoned buildings and is filled with soldiers, relief workers and the displaced.
“The Kukis who lived here and the refugees who came after the coup in Myanmar got together for the looting and burning,” said Khamba, a Meitei who was evacuated from the border town of Moreh this month. He said he saw people ransack homes and set fire to temples. He sat in a converted hostel in Imphal, where boys played badminton with their flip-flops and a pile of donated clothing towered above the roughly 450 residents.
In 2021, the Myanmar military overthrew the democratically elected government, sparking a civil war that sent a new spate of refugees, mostly Chins, into India. With no official count, estimates of post-coup arrivals are as high as 70,000. The government also accuses the Kukis, who live predominantly in the forested hills, of damaging the environment and used that as a grounds for their eviction. Once the violence began, many of the state forestry offices in Kuki regions were destroyed by rioters as symbols of state overreach.
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