Bimol Akoijam

Angomcha Bimol Akoijam is Indian academic, filmmaker and politician, from Imphal,Manipur.

[1] He is an associate professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University's School of Social Sciences,[2] and a public intellectual.

He made a documentary Lang-Goi Challabee (Paradise Under Siege) in 2004, and the feature film Karigee Kirunee Nungsiradee (Why Be Afraid, If You Love) in 2014.

[8][9] He has held the Indian Army and Assam Rifles accountable, saying that they were seen as being hand-in-glove with the "Kuki militant groups", and that they need to win back the trust of the Meitei people.

He had become well known in Manipur for being one of the few academics to raise concerns about ethnic tensions and issues of rights and governance since the conflict began.