Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first and long overdue visit to Manipur after ethnic violence broke out there more than two years ago, killing over 250 people and displacing thousands from their homes, addressed two separate rallies in the hill district of Churachandpur and in Imphal, highlighting the deep divide between the Kuki-Zo community and the Meiteis. Travelling to Churachandpur by road, as inclement weather forced him to ditch his helicopter, the PM passed through a buffer zone that is patrolled by security personnel keeping the two communities apart. The ethnic tensions in the state have reached such a point that the Imphal valley, peopled by the largely Hindu Meiteis, and the hill region,........

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