UN experts have condemned India’s slow and inadequate response to serious rights violations, amid deadly ethnic clashes in Manipur State.

In a statement, nearly 20 independent UN rights experts indicated by mid-August around 160 people were killed and 300 others injured in the violence and tens of thousands of people displaced after thousands of homes and hundreds of churches burnt down and farmland destroyed.

The experts, who are appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, said they were especially concerned that the violence seems to have been preceded and incited by hateful and inflammatory speech online and off line.