"Manipur Violence Escalates Amid Myanmar Conflict"
Ethnic tensions in India's Manipur state have erupted into violence, leaving 70 dead and 48,000 displaced, partly fueled by disputes over refugees from neighboring Myanmar. The 2021 coup in Myanmar caused a rush of refugees across its thousand-mile porous border with India, and nearly a quarter of that border is with Manipur, an impoverished province of hilly forests that has its own history of ethnic strife. The upheaval is the latest indication of how Myanmar’s woes are affecting the region and how the policies of India’s governing Hindu nationalist party can exacerbate long-standing ethnic and religious friction in the country.
