Drums, Horns And Utensils: Thousands Join Sound Protest Across Manipur

Thousands of people across Manipur's five valley districts took to the streets on Friday evening, staging coordinated sound protests and marches against continued killings, the prolonged ethnic conflict, and the government's failure to restore normalcy.The demonstrations turned tense near Kangla Fort in the state capital, Imphal, where police fired tear gas shells and erected barricades on the road leading to Raj Bhavan, a high-security zone located barely 300 metres from the fort's western gate, where a major congregation of protesters took place.Responding to a call by the Federation of Haomee, people across the valley joined the protest between 7:30 pm and 8:00 pm, clanging utensils, beating drums, sounding vehicle horns and sirens, striking electric poles with hammers, and shouting slogans against the government.For nearly 30 minutes, neighbourhoods across the valley reverberated with deafening sounds as residents expressed their anger over the continuing violence and the prolonged failure to resolve the…