IMPHAL: Following clashes between demonstrators and security forces following the arrest of several members of a radical organization, police in an ethnically divided Indian state declared a curfew and an internet ban on Sunday.
For almost two years, the generally Hindu Meitei majority and the primarily Christian Kuki group have been engaged in sporadic confrontations in northeastern India’s Manipur, which have resulted in the deaths of over 250 people.
Reports of the arrest of five members of the extremist Meitei group Arambai Tenggol, including a commander, sparked the most recent violence on Saturday.
In areas of the state capital Imphal, angry crowds demanding their release set fire to a bus, assaulted a police station, and blocked roadways.
