Timeline Blues: Fading Lines Between Real and Unreal
If you are a fan of stories like Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front or Benjamin Bucholz’s One Hundred and One Nights, then we have an offer that you can rehear more original and realistic tales of violence and conflict, that too in real time. If you are also interested in writing a war novel, the plots are already set in a chronological order; and in the skeleton you will just need to build some meat that you can find effortlessly. All you have to do is to take a glance at a month’s headlines in newspapers published in Manipur, where diurnal lives have been reduced to an unrealistic story (see timeline below).
CBI Central Bureau of Investigation SIT Special Investigation Team FIDAM Families of the Involuntarily Disappeared Association, Manipur HRA Human Rights Alert PIL Public Interest Litigation UNLF United National Liberation Front CM Chief Minister NSCN-IM National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) ZUF Zeliangrong United Front CSCHR Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights NHRC National Human Rights Commission IED Improvised Explosive Device PREPAK People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak IRB Indian Reserve Battalion UG Underground AR Assam Rifles JAC Joint Action Committee PLA People’s Liberation Army NWUC Naga Women Union, Chandel KNA Kuki Naitonal Army R-Day Republic Day HC High Court ULFA United Liberation Front of Asom KNF Kuki National Front
JANUARY 2015 ON A TIMELINE
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| Headlines from E-pao - The Killing Fields |
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31 January 2015
RPF dismisses Dimapur police claim / Bandh calls off, JAC gives 15 days for probe / PLA's serial blast bid at Dimapur foiled / Kadangband incident: KIM, KSO condemn, support JAC / Lilong bodies condemn blasts / PREPAK (Pro) owns up Lilong attack
ABBREVIATIONS
CBI Central Bureau of Investigation SIT Special Investigation Team FIDAM Families of the Involuntarily Disappeared Association, Manipur HRA Human Rights Alert PIL Public Interest Litigation UNLF United National Liberation Front CM Chief Minister NSCN-IM National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) ZUF Zeliangrong United Front CSCHR Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights NHRC National Human Rights Commission IED Improvised Explosive Device PREPAK People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak IRB Indian Reserve Battalion UG Underground AR Assam Rifles JAC Joint Action Committee PLA People’s Liberation Army NWUC Naga Women Union, Chandel KNA Kuki Naitonal Army R-Day Republic Day HC High Court ULFA United Liberation Front of Asom KNF Kuki National Front
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