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The granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Ela Gandhi, joined some 100 peace activists from 45 countries on the outskirts of New Delhi on Friday to launch a major new peace movement.

Known as Nonviolent Peaceforce, the international non-governmental organization was to be formally inaugurated during a five-day conference in Surajkund, which borders New Delhi, organizers said.
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Ela Gandhi, now a member of the South African parliament, told AFP of her struggle against the apartheid rule and how she would accompany her father to marches against the brutal former white minority government.

She was put under house arrest for close to a decade by the apartheid regime, which was finally ousted in South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994.

Her grandfather, the Mahatma, spent 21 years in South Africa, where he went to practice law. He returned to India in 1914 after suffering racial abuse in South Africa.