Fwd: ACHR Impact: Manipur directed to explain 111 fake encounters, NHRC also awards Rs 5,00, 000 to the next of a victim of fake encounter

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Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Subject: ACHR Impact: Manipur directed to explain 111 fake encounters, NHRC also awards Rs 5,00, 000 to the next of a victim of fake encounter
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                                   Embargoed for: 2 February 2010

Dear Sir/Madam,

Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has the pleasure to welcome the
latest order of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India.

The NHRC, acting on a complaint of ACHR against the extrajudicial of R K
Sanjoaba, the nephew of former Manipur Chief Minister R K Jaichandra Singh
on 20 October 2004, in its order dated 28 January 2010 directed the
State government of Manipur to report about 111 cases of fake encounters
(an Indian lexicon that presupposes an armed encounter before killing in
order to justify extrajudicial executions) not reported to the NHRC by 26
February 2010. The NHRC also directed the State government of Manipur to
submit proof of payment of Rs 500,000 to the next kin of the victim.

The order of the NHRC is historic considering the systematic fake
encounter killings by the Manipur Police under the guise of joint
operations with the Central armed forces. India's leading news channel,
CNN-IBN stated that the Sanjaoba case has opened a can worms.

The following documents are available at the website of ACHR:

1.      Order of the NHRC dated 28 January 2010
2.      ACHR's Compliant dated 21 October 2004
3.      First Information Report filed on 20 October 2004
4.      Postmortem Report dated 20 October 2004
5.      ACHR's Press Release dated 1 February 2010

India's leading news-channel CNN-IBN ran it as the lead story at 6 pm
yesterday. The video is available at the following link:

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/109537/nhrc-orders-fake-killings-report-from-manipur.html

The order of the NHRC has also received widespread press coverage in
national media as given below:

•  The Hindu, India
NHRC pulls up Manipur for not reporting 111 encounters, 2 February 2010
•  The Pioneer, India
NHRC seeks fake encounter list, 2 February 2010
•  The Telegraph, India
Manipur to pay Rs 5 lakh for 'killing', 2 February 2010
•  Indian Express, India
Explain encounter killings, NHRC tells Manipur, 2 February 2010
•  Imphal Free Press, India
NHRC tells govt to explain 111 "fake encounter" killings, 2 February 2010
•  CNN-IBN, India
NHRC orders fake killings report from Manipur, 1 Fabruary 2010
•  The Times of India
NHRC asks Manipur for report on 111 gunbattles, 1 February 2010
•  The Hindustan Times, India
Report on 111 fake encounters, NHRC tells Manipur, 1 February 2010
•  The Shillong Times
Fake encounter: NHRC asks Manipur Govt to pay compensation, 2 February 2010

The news items could be viewed from ACHR's website.

We thought you would find the information of interest.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely



Suhas Chakma
Director

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