Keisam Pradipkumar, Chairman of the Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR), expressed apprehension that without urgent intervention, the Northeast state risks “losing an entire generation—whether to suicide, substance abuse, or the lure of violence”.

The statement comes in the wake of the death by suicide of a boy inside a relief camp opened at Jiribam Higher Secondary School on September 28.

Pradipkumar said that the prolonged ethnic conflict has taken a heavy toll on the mental health of the internally displaced, particularly minors. In the span of just over two months, at least four minors, some from relief camps, have died by suicide. The first such incident was reported on July 23, wherein a 13-year-old boy allegedly ended his life inside a school at Saiton Villag

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