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'NE issues finally heard after decades'
Hindustan Times | New Delhi, August 24, 2011 23:34 IST(24/8/2011
For RTI activist from Assam and core member of Team Anna, Ramlila Ground, the Ground Zero of Anna Hazare's epic fast, is turning out to be a platform and an unprecedented opportunity to highlight the issues of the Northeast region. "For the first time since the 1942 movement, problems facing the Northeast region are finding an audience here," said Gogoi, who has also been at the forefront of an ongoing campaign against the setting up of more than 160 hydroelectricity projects across Arunachal Pradesh.
Manipur's 'Iron Lady' Irom Sharmila who has been fasting for the last decade demanding removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 (AFSPA), had expressed her inability to join the fast at Ramlila as she was still in judicial custody in Imphal. Interestingly, she has extended an invite to Anna Hazare to come to Manipur 'the most corruption-affected region in the world'.
The AFSPA allows security forces personnel the power to arrest, search, and destroy property bereft of a warrant and to shoot, and even kill, on mere suspicion.
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