“…Many of the militia fight not merely the Indian state and seek greater autonomy or express the right to self-determination and unfinished agenda of decolonisation, 8 but also bitterly attack each other to ‘carve’ exclusive ethnic homelands (Arora & Kipgen, 2017; Biswas & Suklabaidya, 2008; Kolas, 2017). The unresolved Naga problem has strong political implications for perpetuating ethnic conflict in Manipur, as the insurgent Nagas are demanding Naga-inhabited areas to be partitioned from Manipur and included in Nagalim (Arora & Kipgen, 2017; Goswami, 2008). Fratricide and ethnic-nationalism are expressed simultaneously and without any trace of contradiction in many locales (Arora, 2013; Baruah, 1999; Bhonsle, 2016; Hazarika, 2018; Tarapot, 1993, 2003).…”