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MUMBAI – Amid what one Catholic leader has described as a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” directed at Christians in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, a video showing two Christian women who belong to the Kuki ethnic group being paraded naked on a public road and molested by a mob of men has sparked fresh outrage.

The incident happened on May 4, a day after deadly riots broke out between the mainly Hindu Meitei and predominantly Christian Kuki-Zo tribes in the remote state, which is governed by the Hindu nationalist party BJP of Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi.

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