[b] More recently, a new Kuki-Zo settlement called Haolai Khopi has been founded around the year 2020, immediately to the south of the sericulture farm at the Boljang/Bangla village.

The security forces suspected the hand of the People's Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA), a Meitei insurgent group, whose members were believed to be taking shelter in the village.

The bomb blast, for which PLA claimed credit, was said to have been part of the "bycott" against the celebration of India's Republic Day.

[20] In May 2016, another IED was discovered near a post of the Border Security Force (BSF), which was safely detonated by the bomb disposal squad.

A village like Torbung Bangla, where the valley population resides in a hill district (Churachandpur) produces an anomaly.

[14] There may be an effort to enlarge the boundaries of the valley district to encompass such villages, noticed by the Registrar General of India and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.

At the same time a fire was started at the base of the Anglo-Kuki War Memorial Gate in the Leisang village (to the south of Bangla and Kaprang).

[27][28] The people that started the fire were described as "unknown miscreants travelling in a white Bolero [van]", who fled the scene after being discovered.

[31] As the Kuki fighters passed through Torbung Bangla around 3:30 pm, some with advanced weapons, a video of them got circulated on social media, which caused considerable alarm among the Meitei community.

[38] The proposal brought up strenuous objections from the Meitei community who got organised under the Torbung gram panchayat, calling it a "violation of international law".

[39] The International Meitei Forum filed a petition in Manipur High Court, which directed that status quo be maintained till the matter is decided.

[40] After appeals from the Union home ministry and the Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga, ITLF postponed the burial ceremony,[41] and eventually accepted alternative sites.