IMPHAL, India -- Indian army soldier Thanglenlal Lhungdim had insisted that his parents flee their village in violence-wracked Manipur and stay with him nearly 1,500 kilometers away in bustling Kolkata.
But the couple returned home in a fateful decision that cost Lhungdim's 46-year-old mother her life in this remote northeastern pocket of the country torn apart by bloody ethnic conflict.
