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Powerful Indian women seek reprisals over 'heinous' abuse video

A group of Meira Paibi women of the Meitei community gather in front of the partially charred house of an alleged suspect of a viral sexual assault video in Pechi Awang Leikai village of the Thoubal district of north eastern state of Manipur, India, July 22. 2023. [AFP]

Gender trumped tribe for a group of furious Indian mothers who torched the homes of two men from their own community who were accused of abusing women in a video that sparked outrage.

At least 120 people have been killed during months of ethnic conflict between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki in India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur.

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