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Joint letter from the International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to Prachanda, Head of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
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Seven international human rights groups have strongly endorsed the call for international monitoring of the human rights situation in Nepal.
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