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- ↑ Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. INDIA: Tens of thousands newly displaced in northeastern and central states
- ↑ I have spoken with the Chawngzika reang, Sawibunga Reang both personally and confirmed this
- 1 2 Daily Report: Near East & South Asia. The Service. 12 November 1993. p. 160.
- ↑ N. K. Chowdhry (1994). Assembly Elections, 1993. Shipra Publications. p. 181. ISBN 978-81-85402-41-3.
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