A video exhibiting the sexual assault of two ladies in northeastern India has sparked public anger and drawn consideration to a wider ethnic battle enjoying out within the impoverished state of Manipur.
Police have arrested a minimum of 4 individuals over the assault, which occurred in Could, and are trying to find different suspects, in response to native media. Activists have criticized authorities in Manipur for failing to cease the assault.
The harrowing video surfaced on-line this week following months of government-imposed web outages within the northeastern state, which shares a porous border with violence-wracked Myanmar. It has since make clear the communal battle raging in Manipur, which has claimed a minimum of 130 lives since Could, displaced hundreds, and left villages, temples and church buildings in flames.