This report is a study of human rights violations in the Southern Naga Territory (under Manipur’s state administration in Oinam Village) by India. It describes a pattern of arbitrary arrests, detentions and torture of hundreds of villagers in and around Oinam by the Assam Rifles during “Operation Bluebird” conducted after armed Naga revolutionary belonging to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) attacked an Assam Rifles’ outpost in July 1987.
Issued by Amnesty International in January 1990 – AI Index ASA 20/17/90 – View & Download Report in English [PDF] HERE.
** The Assam Rifles is the Indian Army’s oldest paramilitary force.
