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The Manipur police on Wednesday sounded a high alert and stepped up security in different parts of the state after the ITLF announced that it would hold a mass burial ceremony on Thursday of the 35 people who died in the ethnic clashes. This comes as Manipur violence completes 3 months. The mass burial would take place following a programme to pay tributes to the deceased in the Peace Ground at Tuibuong and also in Churachandpur.

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00:00 The Manipur police on Wednesday sounded a high alert and stepped up security in different
00:07 parts of the state after the ITLF announced that it would hold a mass burial ceremony
00:13 on Thursday of the 35 people who died in the ethnic clashes in Manipur.
00:18 This comes as Manipur violence completes three months.
00:20 The mass burial would take place following a program to pay tributes to the deceased
00:24 in the Peace Ground at Turbong and also in Churchendapur.
00:29 Additional Central Security forces have been rushed to the Bishnupur-Churchendapur district
00:33 boundary in Manipur amid the calls by the tribal body.
00:36 The bodies, including that of three women, preserved with the help of white pumpkins
00:40 and ice slabs, are currently at the Churchendapur district hospital.
00:46 There are only nine cold storage units in the hospital.
00:49 The indigenous tribal leaders' forum ITLF had earlier this week announced the mass burial
00:54 on August 3.
00:55 The group said it would bury the Kuki Zom Maters at the S. Boljang village near the
00:59 Churchendapur-Bishnupur border around 11 am.
01:02 Even as the ITLF issued statements about the mass burial of the 35 dead men and women,
01:07 the Koko CMI, which is the coordinating committee on Manipur Integrity Group, accused the Kuki
01:12 groups of playing politics and said that creating a mass grave would provoke the sentiments
01:17 of the people.
01:18 Women groups also protested outside the Bishnupur Deputy Commissioner's office, demanding that
01:22 the mass burial by the ITLF be stopped.
01:25 The violence in Manipur started in Churchendapur on May 3 after a solidarity march organised
01:30 by All Tribal Students Union Manipur against a move to grant SC status to the Maitis.
01:35 Nearly 150 people have died and over 60,000 others have been displaced due to the three-month-long
01:40 violence.
01:41 Maitis fled the Churchendapur and a few other hill districts, while the Kukis quit the Maiti
01:45 majority in Phal Valley.
01:47 The situation outraged the nation on July 20 when a video showing two Kuki women being
01:51 paraded naked by a Maiti mob went viral.
01:54 Peace remains elusive in Manipur as the organisations representing both the majority Maiti and the
01:58 Kuki tribes have remained firm on their demands and have not yet engaged into any kinds of
02:03 talks, be it with the government or with the communities.
02:06 The Maiti organisations, in fact, have decided to organise a sit-in demonstration at Jantar
02:10 Mantar in New Delhi on August 6 in order to draw the centre's attention towards their
02:14 demands for actions against narco-terrorism by the Kukis, abrogation of the suspension
02:19 of operation agreements with the Kuki insurgent groups and not to heed to demands for separate
02:23 administration for the Kukis in Manipur.
02:25 The Kuki organisations, on the other hand, say separate administration is the only way
02:30 forward as the ongoing violence had already made emotional separation between the Kukis
02:34 and the Maitis.
02:34 For more information on the Kuki violence, please visit www.dnr.gov.in.
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