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Nation joins Irom Sharmila in her fight as it enters its 12th year
Tehelka | Ratnadip Choudhury | Guwahati, 05 November 2011
For 11 long years Menghoubi (the fair one) of Imphal is on a hunger strike asking New Delhi to repeal the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA), which she feels has to go immediately if normalcy has be to restored in Manipur. Better known as the ‘Iron lady of Manipur’, Irom Sharmila Chanu, 42, is observing the world’s longest hunger strike in a small cabin of the JN Hospital in Imphal where she is being forced fed by nose and kept under captivity.
Moved by the barbaric killings of 10 civilians in Malom on 2 November, 2000 Irom started her protest. The poet turned activist had almost no one with her on the day she took to hunger strike as a means of her protest for the alleged killing by the Assam Rifles. On Saturday when she stepped into the 12th year of this unprecedented struggle, almost the entire nation is with her.
“I do not believe in amendments to solve the crisis. This will only lead to social degradation and disharmony which are the main factors for corruption, today corruption is eating up Manipur,” Irom told TEHELKA on 3 November when she was produced in an Imphal court.
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