Team News Riveting
Imphal, July 21
After the horrifying video showing two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob of Meitei men emerged on social media, another disturbing video has gone viral within 24 hours.
The latest video shows chopped head of Kuki man, who was beheaded allegedly by Meitei miscreants in Manipur. The victim has been identified as David Thiek.
The beheading of the Kuki man, according to reports, took place on July 02. Earlier on Wednesday (July 19), a viral video surfaced on social media that showed two Kuki women being paraded naked by a mob of unruly Metei men.
A man, identified as David Thiek, was allegedly killed and beheaded in Langza – a Hmar-Kuki village – in Churachandpur district on Sunday. Sources said the village came under attack in the early hours of Sunday, and while most of the village residents fled, a few village volunteers stayed back. Thiek was one of them, who was killed during the attack.
“They started burning the villages at 3-4 am. We consist of around 23-24 villages, and we were told by our Hmar chief to vacate the villages and take our important documents. However, to prevent our houses from getting looted, we had kept three to four young men to guard the villages,” a resident told a local newspaper. Police confirmed that the man had been beheaded.
At Khoijumantabi in Bishnupur district, at the border with the hill district of Churachandpur, three people from the Meitei community died in an incident of firing. The deceased were identified as Ningombam Ibomcha (34), Naorem Rajkumar (26) and Haobam Ibocha (44).
Police said the incident took place at around midnight, when “armed miscreants coming from adjoining hills fired at the village volunteers” who were stationed in Khoijumantabi hills. After this, the district administration reduced the curfew relaxation in Bishnupur district to just five hours – between 5 am and 10 am.
On Sunday afternoon, the Chief Minister visited the violence-hit part of Bishnupur. At least six people have died in incidents of violence in areas at the border of the hills and the valley in the state since June 29, after a relatively calm period of around 15 days.
Following the fresh violence, the deaths toll since the start of the violence on May 3 has gone up to at least 137.
