{"id":935979,"date":"2026-06-27T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=517639"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:45:00","slug":"manipur-cocomi-questions-govt-over-treatment-of-armed-youths-amid-ongoing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/06\/27\/manipur-cocomi-questions-govt-over-treatment-of-armed-youths-amid-ongoing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur: COCOMI questions Govt over treatment of armed youths amid ongoing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"COCOMI\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"COCOMI\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Untitled-design-2026-06-27T200804.175.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Reported by Bit Irom Imphal: The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) has strongly criticised the government&#8217;s handling of the prolonged ethnic conflict in Manipur, questioning whether youths who took up arms to defend their communities during the outbreak of violence in May 2023 are now being treated as criminals. In a statement issued by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur-cocomi-questions-govt-over-treatment-of-armed-youths-amid-ongoing-crisis.html\">Manipur: COCOMI questions Govt over treatment of armed youths amid ongoing crisis<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur-cocomi-questions-govt-over-treatment-of-armed-youths-amid-ongoing-crisis.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur-cocomi-questions-govt-over-treatment-of-armed-youths-amid-ongoing-crisis.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported by Bit Irom Imphal: The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) has strongly criticised the government&#8217;s handling of the prolonged ethnic conflict in Manipur, questioning whether youths who took up arms to defend their com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-935979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935979"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936088,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935979\/revisions\/936088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}