警方于周日表示，印度东北部的曼尼普尔邦发生两起独立事件，造成五人死亡，冲突不断的该地区爆发了新一轮部族冲突。
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.
根据一份警方声明，周六在该邦的诺尼区，库基部族的三名男子在“身份不明的武装暴徒”之间的枪战中身亡。
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.
另一份警方声明称，在安全人员展开搜查行动后，周日早上在康博克皮区找到了本周早些时候失踪的该部族另外两名男子的遗体。
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.
一个主要的库基部族机构指责那加分离主义组织制造了这起谋杀案，称这是一次“在其家园内……直接且无端挑起的人身攻击”。此次杀戮发生之际，该邦首府因帕尔和其他地区爆发了数十万人参加的大规模抗议活动，要求废除库基武装组织与印度政府之间的停火协议。
A top Kuki tribal body blamed Naga separatist outfits for the killings, describing them as a "direct unprovoked assault . . . in their homeland." 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.
占基督徒人口多数的库基族和那加族为争夺这个偏远东北邦的部族家园主权，有着悠久的冲突历史。
The predominantly Christian Kuki and Naga tribes have a long history of conflict over competing claims to ethnic homelands in the remote northeastern state.
最新战斗是在今年2月一名那加男子据称遭到库基部族男子袭击后爆发的。
The latest fighting erupted after a Naga man was allegedly assaulted by men from the Kuki community in February this year.
5月三名库基牧师被杀（据称系那加武装组织所为）引发了双方一系列的报复性绑架和杀害事件。
The killing of three Kuki pastors in May, allegedly by Naga armed groups, triggered a series of retaliatory abductions and killings by both sides.
最近的库基-那加冲突加剧了曼尼普尔邦的紧张局势，该邦的库基部族还与主要由印度教徒组成的梅泰部族卷入了血腥的部族冲突，该冲突始于2023年5月，起因是经济利益和工作配额问题。
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.
这场冲突已造成300多人丧生，超过6万人流离失所，目前仍住在临时避难所中。
More than 60,000 people displaced by the conflict, which has claimed more than 300 lives, continue to live in temporary shelters.