25.08.2006 - Source: Amnesty International

Manipur: 2 human rights defenders reportedly tortured in police custody; their exact place of detention is unclear ("Urgent Action 228/06 [ASA 20/020/2006]") [ID 17615]

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16.12.2004 - Source:

Background information on Kuki National Front [ID 7497]

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03.09.2004 - Source: BBC News

Manipur: a woman allegedly raped and murdered by soldiers ("Army chief 'seeks Manipur truth'") [#25362],  [ID 7485]

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25.08.2004 - Source: Presse

Manipur: Article on corruption in educational system and private schools offered by Salesian priest ("Armutsbekämpfung: 1360 Euro für hunderte Schüler") [#24986],  [ID 7486]

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11.08.2004 - Source: BBC News

Manipur: more than 25 people have been injured after police used force to break up a demonstration for withdrawal of an anti-terror law in Imphal ("Many injured in Manipur protest") [#24605],  [ID 7487]

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29.07.2004 - Source: South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre

Article on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), arbitrary arrests, executions, torture ("Losing hearts and minds. It’s easy when you use laws like the AFSPA (HRF/102/04)") [#24547],  [ID 7488]

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02.06.2004 - Source: Asian Centre for Human Rights

Manipur: "disturbed area status" extended, 25 armed opposition groups, extrajudicial executions by security forces ("Unlawful killings in Manipur State of India (ACHRF/23/04)") [#22937],  [ID 7489]

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24.05.2004 - Source: US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

Annual report on conditions affecting refugees and asylum seekers in 2003 ("World Refugee Survey 2004") [#22816],  [ID 7490]

"At least 650,000 persons were internally displaced in India. Among the displaced were 250,000-450,000 Kashmiris, an estimated 250,000 members of tribal groups in northeast India, an unknown number of persons, mostly Muslims, in Gujarat State in western India. The government impedes international access to internally displaced persons, and labels them migrants. [...]

Displacement in the Northeastern region. All of the seven states in the region have major displacement due to ethnic strife and insurgency. Most of the violence in the area by rebels has been directed against ethnic non-Bodos and Bengalis civilians. The Indian government continued to deny foreigners access to most of the northeast. In Assam state communal rioting between ethnic Dimasa and Hmar erupted in March, displacing hundreds. One report noted 25 percent of the population in the North Cachar Hills fled their homes. Hmars drove ethnic Pnars were out of their homes for allegedly assisting the Dimasas. Fighting between the ethnic Meites and the Nagas during 2003 displaced an unknown number of persons in the Manipur hills, as well as Benaglis near the Assam-Manipur state border. Overall it is estimated that more than 20,000 persons fled their homes in Assam state during 2003."

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23.03.2004 - Source: UN Human Rights Council (formerly UN Commission on Human Rights)

Report on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (English, French and Spanish) ("Civil and political rights, including the questions of: Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; Report of the Special Rapporteur, Theo van Boven; Addendum: Summary of information, including individual cases, transmitted to Governments and replies received [E/CN.4/2004/56/Add.1]") [#23236],  [ID 7491]

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25.02.2004 - Source: US Department of State

USDOS: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003 ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003") [#19765],  [ID 7492]

"The Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the Disturbed Areas Act remained in effect in several states in which active secessionist movements exist, namely, in Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, Manipur, Assam, and parts of Tripura. The Disturbed Areas Act gives police extraordinary powers of arrest and detention, which, according to human rights groups, allowed security forces to operate with virtual impunity in areas under the act. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act provides search and arrest powers without warrants (see Section 1.d.)."

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24.02.2004 - Source: BBC News

State of Manipur: 20 illegal migrants from Bangladesh arrested ("Bangladesh migrants held in India") [#19644],  [ID 7493]

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04.08.2003 - Source: World Organisation Against Torture

Manipur: a former member of the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), an armed opposition group demanding Manipur's independence, tortured and arrested by members of the Assam Rifles’ 17th Battalion ("India: torture and forced disappearance of Mr. Ningthoujam Boby [Case IND 040803]") [#14811],  [ID 7494]

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29.08.2001 - Source: Amnesty International

Around 1100 people have "disappeared" in Jammu and Kashmir since 1990/ "disappearances" are used by security forces and police to combat insurgency ("India: Day of the "disappeared" - still no justice for the victims") [#3809],  [ID 7495]

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19.06.2001 - Source: Amnesty International

Manipur: 13 demonstrators killed and 50 injured as a result of indiscriminate and excessive use of force by police in Imphal ("Excessive use of force in Manipur riots must be investigated") [#2181],  [ID 7496]

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