India struggles with quelling ethnic clashes in Manipur

Since early May, violence in India’s northeastern state of Manipur between competing ethnic groups has killed over 130 people, while over 60,000 have been forced to flee their homes.

In a recent spree of violence, churches and temples were damaged or destroyed. Lawmakers have also been attacked.

Two weeks ago, an office belonging to the minister of state for external affairs, RK Ranjan Singh, was vandalized, and his home in the capital, Imphal, was set on fire by a mob.

And last month,…