Amnesty International Report: too light on NE
This year's AI country report contains all the usual suspects: killings in Kashmir, Gujarat riots, Pota abuse, social discrimination of adivasi and dalits and others. Surprisingly, the human rights situation in NE is portrayed rather perfunctorily, dismissed in a couple of sentences.

"In the states of the northeast, abuses included the torture and killings of non-combatants and attacks on civilians by naxalites (armed left-wing groups) in areas of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal".

I don't know why NE is treated alongside these unNortheasternly states, but by doing so the report seems to suggest that human rights violations are perpretrated by the rebel groups only. The state is left unscathed, nor are there any references to Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Sharmila Irom, Disturbed Area Act..

Haven't the human rights bodies in NE, particularly Manipur, alerted the AI adequately in time? Or has the situation in the state really improved? Or is the author of the report a thoroughbred Indian gentleman with little knowledge about the troubled region?

My mind is violated.