Area Where Manipur Mass Burial Planned Is Government's Sericulture Farm, Eviction Notice Shows
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Manipur: A copy of the eviction notice, which NDTV has seen, says the land that a village chief had encroached upon by building a road belongs to the state, and it has been used by the government's flagship sericulture project to make silk
The Manipur government sent an eviction notice to a village chief in May 2022 to remove encroachments from state land in Bishnupur district's Torbung village - the same site where hill-majority Kukis on Thursday planned a mass burial of those who died in the ethnic clashes.
A copy of the eviction notice, which NDTV has seen, says the land that the village chief had encroached upon by building a road belongs to the state, and it has been used by the government's flagship sericulture project to make silk.
Sericulture is a lucrative local industry with a long history in Manipur, and the state's silk is known for its fine quality.
