To draw the attention of the United Nations to the decade-old armed struggle in Manipur, the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) claimed to have submitted a memorandum to the Secretary General of the UN through the UN’s Nepal office. The KCP in a statement called for a complete ban on the activities of the Nehru Yuva Kendra as also a ban on the recruitment of NCC cadets from the state, along with a ban on Hindi films1.

In other developments, 39 militants surrendered before the Army and police in Assam’s Rangiya town on August 29. Thirty-one of them were from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).

• 1. “KCP petitions UN,” Sangai Express, August 25, 2008, at http://thesangaiexpress.com/News_pages/Local_page-08.html