*N spends most of her days in solitude, cut off from the rest of the world. As a young woman in her late teens, she has tried to get on with her life by reconnecting with her passion for fashion design.

But N rarely steps out of her home.

Gone are the days when she would participate in community life by going for social events, church fellowships or just hanging out with friends her age, a time when all Meitei, Naga and Kuki-Zo ethnic groups in the small but diverse state of Manipur—26th by size of 28 Indian states—lived in relative harmony.

“I’m not comfortable to be around people who know me from before,” she told Article 14. “I would rather be with people who don’t.”

N said she felt alone, as she fought the triple trauma of gang rape, being paraded naked by a marauding mob of hundreds of men from the state’s Meitei community—made public two months later in a viral video—and seeing her father and brother hacked to death.

Elections unfolded in Manipur (polling was on 19 and 26 April) despite continuing conflict, with more than 200 dead and 70,000 displaced, and a chief minister persisting with sectarian remarks.

The latest violence includes two dead in murders and mutilations on 14 April, the killing of two paramilitary personnel by unidentified armed groups on 28 April, and a Kuki-Zo “village volunteer” killed in a gunfight the next day.

There is little closure for thousands.

The story of N, her murdered brother and father and the two women gangraped with her is particularly important because a police chargesheet, accessed by Article 14, revealed the the complicity of the police, the extent of the breakdown of the State, and its inability to deliver justice, despite the involvement of the Supreme Court and the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI).



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