Kuki women sing songs in memory of their martyrs in Churachandpur district while they guard near a checkpoint in the northeastern state of Manipur. India's northeastern states have been historically prone to insurgencies and ethnic violence but the vicious conflict between majority Meiteis and minority tribal Kukis in Manipur hit world headlines last month when a video surfaced of two Kuki women being paraded naked by the jeering mob.

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