India, May 8 -- Manipur has just passed the grim milestone of three years since the start of the conflagration involving the majority Meitei people and the minority Zo ethnic tribes, who were simplistically lumped together as "Kuki". The trouble, the most serious the state has encountered yet in its blood-splattered history, has consumed the place since it began on 3 May, 2023. Currently, the two sides are stuck in a stalemate. After a spell of President's Rule, a new government was recently installed with Yumnam Khemchand Singh, a Meitei, as Chief Minister and Nemcha Kipgen, a Kuki, and Losi Dikho, a Mao Naga, as Deputy Chief Ministers. The killings have more or less stopped, notwithstanding recent outbursts of violence which seemingly d...