Personal account: A journalist from Manipur recounts the recent years of conflict in her home state
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The Editors Guild of India (EGI) had received several reports indicating that the media in Manipur was playing a divisive role in the ongoing ethnic conflict between the majority Meitei community and the Kuki-Chin minority. The reports alleged that media in the Imphal Valley were engaged in the “outright misrepresentation of facts”. On July 12, 2023, over two months into the conflict, the EGI also received a formal complaint from the Indian Army’s 3rd Corps headquarters. The complaint highlighted specific instances where the media was accused of playing “a major role in stirring emotions and preventing sustainable peace from taking root.”
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Given the mounting concerns about the media’s role in exacerbating the crisis, the EGI decided to send a fact-finding team to Manipur. The team, consisting of three veteran journalists, Seema Guha, Bharat Bhushan and Sanjay Kapoor, was dispatched to Manipur from August 7 to 10 to assess the situation first hand. When I learned of this, I was confident that their involvement would not just bring clarity but would be a fair representation of what was happening on the ground. Sure enough, the team’s report was a revelation. But the report was met with a vehement rebuttal mostly from the Meitei...