How American Missionaries Are Funding Insurgency In Manipur

Since May last year, Manipur, a state in northeastern India, has been caught in violent ethnic clashes between two groups: the majority Meitei community and the minority Kuki-Zo tribes. This violence has led to more than 200 deaths and forced over 60,000 people to flee their homes. Recently, the situation escalated with the Kuki militants launching high-tech drone and long-range rocket attacks. This prompted the Indian government to investigate whether foreign groups are involved in fueling the unrest.

Some experts believe that US-backed Baptist organizations could be playing a role in encouraging separatism in India’s northeastern states, particularly in Manipur. According to the Legal Rights Observatory (LRO), a non-profit Indian group, and Vinay Joshi, a former Indian Military Intelligence (MI) officer, American Baptist missionaries have been linked to separatist movements in the region. Joshi pointed out that this strategy, known as Liberation Theology, has been used by the...