Manipur is once again engulfed in violence, but is it truly a repeat of past unrest? The media has been using terms like "once again," but the reality is far more complex. A report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) in May 2023 revealed that 69,000 people across South Asia had to leave their homes, with 67,000 of them from Manipur alone due to the ongoing violence. This data only covers the year 2023, and the situation has likely worsened since.