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 Volume I Issue III  February 2000

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Manipur Update
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Volume I Issue III, February 2000

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The Phenomena
... From the perspective of the victim involved, the phenomena of 'disappearance' in Manipur can be broadly divided into two types, namely activists of the underground groups and ordinary civilians....
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In Pursuit of Justice
... In 1999, the WITNESS program of the Lawyers Committee of Human Rights produced a short video film on the same boy entitled Sanamacha's Story. The video film was screened before the UN Working Group in New York in May 1999. The video is now available in the internet at http://www.witness.org. 
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Greetings of Hope
In response to the Amnesty International campaign for Sanamacha, his parents in Manipur State received thousands of letters and greetings from concerned people across the world, mostly from Great Britain, expressing sympathy and hope for their 'missing' son.
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