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Amir Khan supports repeal of AFSPA : JPF Press Release

August 28, 2011 By 1 Comment

New Delhi, Ramlilla Ground, August 28, 2011 : Bollywood Actor Amir khan says “Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 should be repealed. I Support Irom Sharmila! I don’t think there is any provision in the Indian constitution to deny meeting with people in custody.”

The coordinator of Just Peace Foundation, Seram Rojesh in Delhi briefed Bollywood actor Armir Khan at Ramleela ground, New Delhi about the condition of Irom Sharmila who has been fasting in the last 10 years on 27/8/2011. She would be completed her fast for 11 years fast on coming 4 November, 2011. She is not allowed to meet people freely including her family members by imposing many procedures by the government. It takes many months to get clearance from government even to meet her.
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Learn AFSPA : A 4 page law for North East India

August 23, 2011 By 1 Comment

Rumour says that The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, shortly known as AFSPA, which was specially enacted at the insistence of J L Nehru, after he was reportedly humiliated by Naga people when they deserted the meeting venue as soon as J L Nehru ( the then Prime Minister of India) stood up to deliver his speech. Stories are abound that Nehru was so angry that he shouted that he would teach a lesson to Nagas and if required, he would deploy as many security forces as the number of trees in Nagaland, but will not bow down to their demand.
So he devised AFSPA as soon as he went back to Delhi. Apart from this rumour, every democratic person in India should learn about AFSPA 1958, so we have copied and pasted from the document available online in Ministry of Home affairs website. Here is the link to the document :
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Binayak Sen demands repeal of AFSPA

May 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Binayak Sen, the controversial doctor cum civil rights activist has demanded repeal of Armed Forces Special Power Act – 1958 ( AFSPA) “A large number of human rights organizations have joined hands to oppose the sedition law and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” Sen said at a felicitation function in Kalyani in West Bengal.

Binayak Sen was granted bail on 15 April 2011 by the Supreme Court after being sentenced to life imprisonment by Chhattisgarh court on charges of sedition and alleged links with Maoists in central India.
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Call for Nationwide Protest against AFSPA

May 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) has called for nation wide protest against AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958) from 22 May 2011 the day the Indian Parliament promulgated the ordinance in 1958 upto August 18, the day the Indian Parliament passed Act in 1958.

General Secretary, Pushkar Raj of PUCL had also demanded freeing Irom Sharmila, the Iron Lady of Manipur, who has been on hunger strike for more than 10 years demanding repealing of AFSPA.
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NE Netizen Voice: Why Center wants to suppress people of North East India

May 1, 2011 By 5 Comments

Mayengbam Ranjit Luwang is a professional Archtect from North East India who is based in Delhi, worked abroad, came back and then wants to work in his state Manipur. He has posted a reaction to an article Sharmila’s fast has been ignored because AFSPA affects only a part of the country? THINK AGAIN!!!! by Bimol Akoijam, associate professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. With his permission, we thought we would publish the note here :

Nice to read such a nice and insightful article. If we are to understand the reason behind centre’s instrument to repress and supress the People of NE like APSFA, RAP and PAP, it lies in the following areas:
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Irom Sharmila and Anna Hazare Hunger Strike : North East India View

April 10, 2011 By 6 Comments

After the successful completion of hunger strike by Anna Hazare demanding enacting Lokpal Bill, the comparison of hunger strike by Irom Sharmila and Anna Hazare has now surfaced in social networking sites by Netizens from North East India as well as in blogspehere.

In Time of India, social commentator Santosh Desai says, “The state can forcefully feed if the issue doesn’t have certain legitimacy,” in case of Irom Sharmila! ( source here )
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Does the North-East Belong in India ?

April 1, 2011 By 55 Comments

I first discovered that ‘we’ were seen as ‘different’ when we moved to Chandigarh. I was 16, and rather surprised when we were visited at lunchtime by Mrs. Khunjoo , who lived in the next apartment. Surprised because we don’t generally expect visitors at lunchtime. Certainly not visitors who spring lithely over the balconies as Mrs Khunjoo did.

“Will you have lunch” my mother , ever hospitable asked her, the first time she manifested.

“No no sister,” she said. “i just want to see.”

“What do you want to see?”,I asked.

“No, please , just what you are eating ?”
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Irom Sharmila released

March 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Irom Sharmila, Iron Lady of Manipur, who has been on hunger strike for more than ten years now, has been released by the chief judicial magistrate of Imphal, Manipur. And she walked out of the security ward of the state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) here where she was being forced-fed through the nose by the government forces.

Incidentally, her release coincide with visit of the President of India Mrs. Pratibha Patil to Manipur who has arrived here on official two day visit.
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