UN APPALLED’ BY INPUTS OF GENDER VIOLENCE IN MANIPUR

The alleged violence includes gang rape, parading women naked in the street, severe beatings causing death, and burning them alive or dead,” the experts said in a statement

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On Monday, United Nations members said they are "appalled" by the images and reports of gender-based violence in Manipur targeting girls and women and urged the Indian authorities to take robust and timely action to examine acts of violence and hold perpetrators to account.

The UN experts raised the alarm about reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in Manipur, including alleged acts of sexual violence, extrajudicial killings, home destruction, forced displacement, torture and ill-treatment.

India in the past has said that the Indian authorities at all levels, including the judiciary, are seized of the situation in Manipur and are taking steps to maintain peace and harmony and law and order.