印度曼尼普爾邦再爆族群暴力，5人喪生

托拉・阿加瓦拉報導By Tora Agarwala

路透新德里11月1日電——警方週日表示，印度東北部曼尼普爾邦發生兩起不同事件，共有5人喪生；這個飽受衝突困擾的地區再度爆發族群暴力。NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Five people were killed in two separate incidents in India's northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Sunday, as fresh ethnic violence erupted in the conflict-hit region.

根據警方聲明，週六在該邦諾尼縣，「身分不明的武裝滋事分子」交火，造成3名庫基部族男子死亡。Three men from the Kuki tribal group were killed in an exchange of gunfire between "unidentified armed miscreants" in the state's Noney district on Saturday, according to a police statement.

另一份警方聲明指出，同一社群另有2名男子本週稍早失蹤，安全人員展開搜索行動後，週日上午在康波比縣尋獲兩人的遺體。The bodies of two other men from the same community, who had gone missing earlier this week, were recovered in Kangpokpi district on Sunday morning after security personnel launched a search operation, a second police statement said.

一個主要庫基部族組織指控那加分離主義團體犯下這些殺人事件，並形容這是「在他們家園中……直接且無端的攻擊」。A top Kuki tribal body blamed Naga separatist outfits for the killings, describing them as a "direct unprovoked assault . . . in their homeland."

這些殺人事件發生之際，曼尼普爾邦首府英帕爾及其他地區正有數十萬人參加大規模抗議，要求廢除庫基武裝團體與印度政府之間的停火安排。The killings came amid mass protests attended by hundreds of thousands of people in the state capital Imphal and other areas, demanding the abrogation of a ceasefire arrangement between Kuki armed groups and the Indian state.

以基督徒為主的庫基與那加部族，長期因為在這個偏遠東北部邦對族群家園的主張相互競爭而發生衝突。The predominantly Christian Kuki and Naga tribes have a long history of conflict over competing claims to ethnic homelands in the remote northeastern state.

最新一波戰鬥，是在一名那加男子據稱於今年2月遭庫基社群男子攻擊後爆發。The latest fighting erupted after a Naga man was allegedly assaulted by men from the Kuki community in February this year.

今年5月，3名庫基牧師據稱遭那加武裝團體殺害，引發雙方一連串報復性綁架與殺戮。The killing of three Kuki pastors in May, allegedly by Naga armed groups, triggered a series of retaliatory abductions and killings by both sides.

最新的庫基—那加衝突使曼尼普爾邦緊張局勢升高。當地庫基社群也捲入與以印度教徒為主的梅泰社群之間的血腥族群衝突；這場衝突始於2023年5月，起因是經濟利益與就業配額爭議。The latest Kuki-Naga clashes have added to tensions in Manipur, where the Kuki community is also embroiled in a bloody ethnic conflict with the mainly Hindu Meitei community that began in May 2023 over economic benefits and job quotas.

這場衝突已造成超過300人死亡，逾6萬人流離失所，目前仍住在臨時收容所。More than 60,000 people displaced by the conflict, which has claimed more than 300 lives, continue to live in temporary shelters.

（托拉・阿加瓦拉報導；馬揚克・巴德瓦吉與拉朱・戈帕拉克里希南編輯）(Reporting by Tora Agarwala; editing by Mayank Bhardwaj and Raju Gopalakrishnan)