Bwizamani Singh

Bwizamani Singh, who was also mistakenly identified as Dwijamani Singh, (ca. 1976 – 23 December 2012), was an Indian camera operator for the Prime News channel in northeast India. He was shot dead by police while covering a protest of recent sexual violence against women in India.

Personal Bwizamani Singh had two children, a son and a daughter. He also had a brother named Thangjam Tulchand Singh.

His funeral was held in Imphal, India on 25 December 2012.

Career Bwizamani Singh was a camera man for Prime News, a satellite-distributed television channel in northeast India.

Death Singh was killed on 23 December 2012 while covering a protest of the recent violence against Indian women in Imphal, Manipur, India. Police opened fire in attempt to disperse an angry crowd in Imphal. Singh was recording a mob burning a truck at the protest when police began firing into the crowd. Five officers were suspended as a result of the incident. Singh was taken to a local hospital where he later died from a gunshot wound to the chest. The attacker was Lt. Col. Living-stone, also written as Livingstone or Living Stone, a militant member of a Naga separatist group National Socialist Council of Nagaland. The separatist leader also shot at at least one person who tried to defend the actress before he fled.

The protests in 2012 were national, but the recent protests had led to violence and police enforced curfews in parts of Manipur afterwards. Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association that is affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, believes the culture of victim-blaming surrounding sex crimes is the deeper issue behind the protests in Indian. Some Indian officials have insisted that a person cannot be prosecuted for rape if they know their victims. Reporting rape in India can endanger the one who reports and the victim of the crime. It is estimated that thousands of rapes occur annually in India but only 600 are reported. This is likely due to how the cases are handled and the widely held belief that behaviors of women may invite rape. This mentality promoting rape culture is not considered a distinctly Indian issue, but a worldwide issue. The protest was one of many that took place around this time to combat the high rate of sexual violence in India. The men accused of the gang rape have been charged with murder.

William Horsley, Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield, said, "What is needed is the public and the press to make the world's populations understand the link between the killing of journalists and the undermining of the rule of law and stability in whole societies."