The ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur has claimed 258 lives since May last year, the state government's Security Advisor Kuldiep Singh said on Friday.
The meeting happened amid fresh violence in the state, in which at least five people were killed in Jiribam district on Saturday.
'We are not secessionists, we want to coexist with our countrymen but not on the terms that will strip us off our dignity and a right to peaceful existence.'
The incident took place in Khoijumantabi village late on Saturday night when the 'village volunteers' were guarding the area in a makeshift bunker, a police officer said.
'Had it not been for the complicity of the state and Biren Singh's leadership, these riots would not have spread this far and for so long.'
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India on Tuesday said it is not in a position to resume composite dialogue with Pakistan till 'vigorous prosecution' is mounted against the accused in the Mumbai terror attack case and the infrastructure of terror across the border, responsible for numerous attacks on Indian soil, is dismantled. "We can certainly talk to Pakistan when the time comes. Let them understand that those who have harmed India are the very same forces that threaten them," he said.
Last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina's Lionel Messi were among the 30 players on the 2009 Ballon d'Or award shortlist released on Sunday but Italian and German players were conspicuous by their absence.
Nineteen armed groups belonging to the Kuki National Organisation and the United Peoples' Front mutually agreed to extend Suspension of Operation in their quest of settling their political agendas.
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