This report is a study of human rights violations in the Northeastern state of Manipur. 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 secessionists belonging to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland attacked an Assam Rifles’ outpost in July 1987, killing nine soldiers and removing arms and ammunition.
