Neither dead nor alive: Search for Manipur’s missing haunts families

In the ongoing ethnic conflict, there are at least three dozen cases of people reported missing, feared killed and secretly buried

For nearly 21 months Ngamkholin Haokip (45) refused to allow leaders of his tribal community to put his missing daughter’s photograph, beside hundreds of other photographs at the Kangpokpi town’s Wall of Remembrance – a memorial in the middle of the town with pictures of those killed in Manipur’s ethnic clashes.

Security personnel stand guard as markets remain closed to mark two years of the conflict, in Imphal on Saturday. (ANI)

Haokip’s daughter, Hoineilam(27), a Kuki-Zo tribal, went missing on May 4, 2023, from