Discussion on Irom Sharmila and her 11-year hunger strike to repeal AFSPA 1958
at Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, USA
on February 21, 2012
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“The 11-Year Hunger Strike: Irony in the Worlds's Largest Democracy”
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Malkin Penthouse (Littauer Center, Floor 4) Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The 11-Year Hunger Strike:
Irony in the Worlds's largest Democracy
A panel discussion of the story of
Irom Sharmila Chanu of Manipur
and her 11-year hunger strike in judicial custody
to demand the repeal of the controversial
Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958) in India.
With Panelists:
Dr. Angana Chatterji
Co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir
Pradyot Deb Barma
Chairman and Editor of The Northeast Today magazine; Royal House of Tripura
Babloo Loitongbam
Executive Director, Human Rights Alert, Manipur
Binalakshmi Nepram
Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network, New Delhi; Secretary General, Control Arms Foundation of India, New Delhi
and
L. Somi Roy
Film and Media Curator, New York;
Hun-tré! International Manipur Projects
Moderator:
Charlie Clements
Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
A panel discussion of the story of Irom Sharmila Chanu of Manipur and her 11-year hunger strike in judicial custody demanding the repeal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958) in India.
The story of Irom Sharmila Chanu of Manipur, and her 11-year hunger strike in judicial custody, demanding the repeal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958) in India, frames the first US symposium on the Act and its use in Jammu & Kashmir and in Manipur, Tripura, and other states in the country’s remote North Eastern region. Aspects of the deployment of the Act, the special powers it gives to India’s security forces in handling the country’s border regions, and its impact on India’s democratic, constitutional, and judicial practice, will be discussed by a panel moderated by Charlie Clements, Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Film and media curator L. Somi Roy of New York, and Hun-tré! International Manipur Projects, New York/Imphal, will make an introductory cultural background presentation.
This evening's event is co-sponsored by:
The Harvard India Caucus
The Kashmir Initiative at the Carr Center
The North American Manipur Association (NAMA)
and
The European Manipuri Association (EMA)
and was made possible through the generosity of:
The Manipuri Diaspora Association.
* H/T to Premjit Laikh ( premjit(dot)laikh(at)gmail(dot)com ) for sending this announcement
This announcement was posted on February 16, 2012.
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