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Her death wasn’t an accident. It was negligence from the system’s part. Her absence is loud&so is our demand. We will shout out her name until accountability answers. We owe her more than mourning. #JusticeforNengtinlhing

The grandma of Nengtinlhing Haokip, broke her silence by claiming her granddaughter died of gangr@pe by #ArambaiTenggol #ManipurRapeSurvivor dies waiting for justice @LokBhavManipur @SupriyaShrinate @nabilajamal_ @vijaita @BDUTT @DeepikaBhardwaj @sangbarooahpish @sangbarooahpish

📢 Arambai Tenggols were never the heroic dart-wielding warriors whitewashed & romanticized in Meitei Mythology. In truth, They were nothing more than the king's pet extortionists & royal-sanctioned pony thieves, whose sole purpose was to rob the king's own people of their finest Ponies. Through this systematic horse theft under the king's greedy orders, the Arambai Tenggols singlehandedly accelerated the decline & irreversible genetic degeneration of the once celebrated Manipur ponies. ➡️Here's how: 🔸️Whenever a Meitei king's petty envy flared at the sight of a commoner's prized pony, he would dispatch his dart wielding lackeys do his dirty bidding. These Arambai Tenggols did not earn their "fearsome reputation" from their valor or prowess in the battlefield but from their ability to sneak into houses in the dead of night & plant their arambais (darts) at the door of any commoner unfortunate enough to posses good ponies which the king coveted. 🔸️The next morning, the owner had no choice but to surrender the animal to the king's stables, no compensation, no appeal, no mercy. Just pure, shameless confiscation. 🔸️The consequences of their action was devastating, fearing arbitrary seizures, people stopped breeding quality ponies. They deliberately let the breed degenerate, rather than risk losing their best animals to the king's insatiable greed & his band of royal sanctioned pony thieves. In this way, the greed of petty tyrants & his dart-wielding lackeys helped ruin one of the most celebrated pony breeds in the region. 🔸️Centuries later, the modern Arambai Tenggols, revived as a gun toting, trigger-happy militia, it bear no trace of the mythical cavalry tradition it invokes for legitimacy. Still obedient lapdogs to their ignoble king but with no ponies left to rob, they resort to looting the State Armoury. The modern day Arambai Tenggols are Talibans without the Turbans, only their ideology is rooted in the virulent strain of exclusionary ethno-supremacist idealogy & the beards are optional. @NIA_India @IN_Archives @MinOfCultureGoI @secycultureGOI @BhallaAjay26

Manipur | Remembering the 20yr old girl, victim of the 2023 ethnic conflict died on Jan 10 waiting for Justice. 3 yrs later the perpetrators walk free. No one arrested. Her mother, Lhingnei Haokip, told @newslaundry her daughter’s ordeal. Read 👇🏾 "My daughter was a very lively and outgoing girl before she was subjected to this horrifying brutality. She wasn’t really interested in academics, but she worked at a beauty parlour in Imphal with one of our relatives. She had many friends and often hung out with them. My daughter was always smiling and full of life, but after the incident, she lost her smile. ....My daughter became so traumatised that she confined herself to one room. She completely stopped interacting with everyone. She stopped going out and stopped talking to her friends. Doctors used to visit twice a week for trauma therapy sessions, but my daughter could not recover. I was the only person she spoke to. She didn't leave my side even when we stepped out for 15 minutes. ....For the last two years, she lived in constant fear. She used to tell me that she did not want to live anymore. Once, she told me that everyone knew what had happened to her and that she felt extremely vulnerable because of it. She had nightmares and gradually developed insomnia. She could not sleep out of fear, and because of all this, her health kept deteriorating. On January 8, my daughter started vomiting and developed diarrhoea. We consulted a doctor and gave her medicines, but within a day, she passed away. It was the trauma and the injuries inflicted on her that affected her health. Over the last two years, she developed a prolonged illness because of what was done to her. I have only one wish left in life – to see the people who did this to her punished. I want to know who those men were...... I am going to miss my daughter." Lhingnei Haokip will grieve all her life. Her daughter died waiting for justice. When shielding perpetrators matters more than healing victims, justice becomes rare. And a nation that denies a mother justice can this country still call itself civilised nation?

Not one arrest till date. The victim has died. PM Modi silent. HM Shah silent. #MotherOfDemocracy #AmrutKaal #ViksitBharat

A 20-year-old woman from the Kuki-Zo community, who survived mob-fuelled sexual violence during the May 2023 ethnic riots in Manipur, has died while waiting for justice. Read more 🔗 toi.in/fu0JSY #Manipur #Crime #Violence

Neng…💔 Ka sopi. Ka sangamnu. Ka nau. I am so sorry. I am sorry that you had to endure so much pain in silence, that you were made to carry wounds no human being should ever bear, and that you were left alone in the middle of chaos, cruelty, and betrayal. You were failed from every direction. By those who brutalized you and then mocked your suffering. By leaders who spoke the language of justice while trading our dignity for power and wealth. By loud fanatics who contributed nothing but hatred and division. And by a government and a world that chose convenience over conscience, silence over truth. What hurts the most is knowing that while you fought to survive, we became distracted, weakened, and powerless. That we could not protect you. That we could not give you the safety, dignity, and justice you deserved. For that, I carry guilt. Deep, burning guilt. Please forgive us for failing your hope, your trust, your faith in us. Know this, sister: you were not invisible. You were loved, even if we were too few and too broken to save you. If love alone could have shielded you, we would have stood in front of every blow meant for you. We would have given our lives to protect yours. I hope your spirit sees through the lies, the noise, and the cruelty, and understands that your pain was not forgotten, that your name will not be erased, that your story lives on in our anger, our tears, and our refusal to forget. Rest where there is no fear, no humiliation, no violence. Rest knowing that your suffering exposed the truth of this world. And rest knowing that some of us are still here, grieving you, carrying your memory like a wound that will never fully heal. We are sorry. We remember you. And we will not let your silence be used against you.

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲; 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳’𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘬 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 18, 2026 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙢’𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙣𝙤 𝙆𝙪𝙠𝙞-𝙕𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙪𝙠𝙞-𝙕𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙, 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙨𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙖 𝙈𝙚𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙞-𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙈𝙚𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙞 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙬. newsreel.asia/articles/manip… @adgpi @easterncomd @crpfindia @BSF_India @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @rajnathsingh @DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD @PIBHomeAffairs @thewire_in @kthaparoffice @kharge @PUCLindia @RahulGandhi @SupriyaShrinate @Jairam_Ramesh @Pawankhera @srinivasiyc @Allavaru @PIBHomeAffairs @ndtvfeed @ndtv @CNN @thewire_in @KaranThapar_TTP @newslaundry @EastMojo @AJEnglish @ukhrultimes @timesofindia @TimesNow @htTweets @globaltimesnews @PTI_News @BBCWorld @JuKrick_ @BBCBreaking @rashtrapatibhvn @VPIndia

“She Tried to Be Strong”: Manipur Gang Rape Survivor Dies Awaiting Justice Nearly three years after the assault, no arrests have been made in the case, despite a detailed FIR filed in July 2023 @mrinalinidhyani @Outlookindia outlookindia.com/national/she-t…

Justice is not a competition, nor is it a zero-sum game where acknowledging one victim erases another. The #Kuki_Zo demand for justice is not about blaming an entire community—it is about holding perpetrators and the state accountable for systematic failures, impunity, and prolonged denial of justice. Equating delayed justice with a “justification for separate land” is a false equivalence. The demand for a separate administration arises from complete institutional collapse, targeted violence, breakdown of constitutional protection, and the state’s inability or unwillingness — to ensure safety, dignity, and justice for Kuki-Zo people. Delayed justice is not the cause; it is evidence of that collapse. If Meitei victims have been denied justice, they too deserve accountability, investigation, and redress—no one disputes that. But using their suffering to delegitimize Kuki-Zo pain or to question why one case receives attention only after a death is deeply disingenuous. Many Kuki-Zo victims spoke up for months without media coverage, FIRs, arrests, or outrage—until silence became impossible to ignore. Justice cannot be selective—agreed. But neither can empathy be conditional or weaponized to silence others. Asking “what about the other side?” every time a Kuki-Zo woman’s trauma is acknowledged does not advance justice; it deflects responsibility and reinforces a culture of denial. Suffering is not measured by numbers or majority status. It is measured by truth, accountability, and whether the rule of law functions equally for all. Until that exists, calling out injustice is not divisive—it is necessary. @adgpi @easterncomd @crpfindia @BSF_India @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @rajnathsingh @DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD @PIBHomeAffairs @thewire_in @kthaparoffice @kharge @PUCLindia @RahulGandhi @SupriyaShrinate @Jairam_Ramesh @Pawankhera @srinivasiyc @Allavaru @PIBHomeAffairs @ndtvfeed @ndtv @CNN @thewire_in @KaranThapar_TTP @newslaundry @EastMojo @AJEnglish @ukhrultimes @timesofindia @TimesNow @htTweets @globaltimesnews @PTI_News @BBCWorld @JuKrick_ @mrinalinidhyani @utpal_parashar @BBCBreaking @rashtrapatibhvn @VPIndia

Kuki-Zo Women’s Forum, Delhi & NCR, pays a tribute to Nengtinlhing Haokip, a 20 year old from the Kuki-Zo community who was subjected to unspeakable cruelty after being handed over to the Arambai Tenggols in New Checkon, Imphal in May 2023. @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn

CoTU's Press Statement on Rajasthan Wushu Team Allegations of Harassment and Extortion Will you not publish this clarification? @IndiaTodayNE

We strongly condemn the tragic and untimely death of our beloved sister/daughter who was just an innocent girl with simple life and simple needs. This heartbreaking loss is not just a personal tragedy for the bereaved family, but a grave injustice that wounds the collective conscience of our society. The circumstances leading to her death demand immediate, transparent and impartial investigation, and those responsible must be held fully accountable under the law. Silence, delay, or indifference in the face of such loss only deepens the suffering and perpetuates injustice. We stand in solidarity with the grieving family and loved ones and we reiterate our call for justice, dignity, and the protection of human life, especially for vulnerable women and communities. Such tragedies must not be allowed to fade into statistics—they must lead to accountability and meaningful change. @adgpi @easterncomd @crpfindia @BSF_India @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @rajnathsingh @DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD @PIBHomeAffairs @thewire_in @kthaparoffice @paolienlal @LMKhaute @KipgenNemcha @KimneoHangshing @mang_henglep @LetpaoHaokip @VungzaginValte @chinlunthang @haokholet_k @NgursanglurS

A 20-year-old Kuki woman who was gang-raped in Manipur in May 2023 died on January 10 of a prolonged illness linked to her injuries. maktoobmedia.com/india/manipur-…

A 20-year-old Kuki-Zo woman in Manipur has died from injuries sustained during a brutal gang rape in May 2023. Her family says no arrests, despite a CBI probe. The case reflects the impunity and suffering faced by Kuki-Zo families in the conflict. (Link in a comment)

This is a true story. And it should never have been allowed to end this way. She was only twenty. Her name was NENGTINLHING HAOKIP. She was not a symbol. She was not a statistic. She was a daughter, a sister, a young Kuki-Zo woman who spoke softly, worked in a small beauty parlour, and dreamed of opening one of her own someday. Her life was ordinary in the most beautiful way. And that is exactly what was taken from her. In May 2023, when Manipur descended into ethnic violence, Nengtinlhing was living in Imphal. Two weeks into the chaos, she was abducted from an ATM kiosk in broad daylight. She was dragged away by Meira Paibis, women who publicly claim to stand for peace and morality. They beat her first. Then they handed her over to armed Meitei extremists from Arambai Tenggol, not to protect her, not to help her, but with explicit instructions to rape and kill her. She begged. She cried. She was blindfolded, tied up, threatened with death. To avoid arrest in Imphal, her captors took her to Bishnupur. There, they gave her a choice no human being should ever be forced to make: submit to rape or die. When she resisted, she was brutally assaulted and gang-raped by multiple men. Her body was violated. Her dignity was shattered. Her future was stolen in that moment. She survived. But survival is not the same as living. For nearly twenty months, her mother watched her child suffer. Severe physical injuries. Uterine complications. Unrelenting trauma. Hospitals far from home. Endless pain. Endless waiting. No arrests. No accountability. No justice. On January 10, Nengtinlhing died from medical complications caused by the injuries inflicted on her that day. She did not die because she was weak. She died because the system abandoned her. She died because her attackers were protected by silence, power, and impunity. And as her family mourned, as her people lit candles and prayed for justice, something even more horrifying unfolded. On social media, many Meiteis mocked her death. Laughing emojis flooded comment sections. Cruel jokes replaced compassion. Hurtful insults were typed casually, as if a young woman’s suffering and death were entertainment. This is the most inhuman part of all. Not just the violence. But the celebration of it. Not just the crime. But the collective cruelty that followed. To laugh at a raped woman’s death is not ignorance. It is moral decay. It is the stripping away of basic humanity. It reveals a society where empathy has been replaced by hatred, and where the suffering of a Kuki-Zo woman is seen as something to ridicule rather than mourn. Her mother asks for only one thing: justice. But justice has not come. No senior official from the Manipur government visited the family. No meaningful support was offered. The case was handed to the CBI, yet no arrests have been made. Meanwhile, hundreds of Kuki-Zo villages were burned, churches destroyed, thousands displaced, and over two hundred lives lost. Still, prosecutions are almost nonexistent. Armed Meitei vigilante groups continue to walk free. For Kuki-Zo families, justice is not delayed. It is denied. Nengtinlhing’s death is not an isolated tragedy. It is part of a larger pattern: the targeted violence against Kuki-Zo women, the collapse of protection mechanisms, and the complete failure of the state to protect its minorities. It is why her mother says coexistence no longer feels possible. Because how do you coexist with those who mock your daughter’s rape and death? Her story forces an uncomfortable truth into the open: A society that laughs at such suffering has lost its moral compass. Remember her name. Remember what was done to her. Remember the silence of the authorities. And remember the cruelty of those who chose laughter over humanity. Because if this is forgotten, then justice truly dies with her.

"The tragic death of a gang rape victim from the Kuki ST community in Manipur, who died without seeing justice, is an indictment of the politics of hate and the judicial process": CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat

The Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights calls upon national and internal Human Rights bodies to take urgent action against crimes against the marginalised Kuki tribal woman in Manipur. @UNHumanRights @UNHumanRights @unwomenchief @India_NHRC @NCWIndia @unwomenindia @PTI_News