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May 3rd 2023 is a day which journalist Hoinhu Hauzel and her family will never forget. On that fateful night, an armed group entered a residential colony in Imphal and burnt down over 30 homes, all belonging to Kuki-Zomis. Hoinhu’s elderly parents had to flee as their home was razed to the ground. The burnt remains include precious books: Hoinhu’s father is an academic who has written extensively on the tribes of Manipur. That only tribal homes and churches were targeted while Meitei-owned houses in the neighborhood were untouched is glaring evidence of Manipur’s vicious cycle of ethnic violence which has seen more than 120 people killed and thousands displaced across communities over the last two months. What makes Hoinhu’s case even more terrifying is the fact that her Imphal home is barely 10 minutes away from the chief minister’s residence.