Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 07:
In support of the struggle being launched by Irom Chanu Sharmila who has been fasting for over six years now demanding repeal of the AFSPA that allows army personnel to shoot, arrest or search without a warrant even on mere suspicion alone and grants immunity to the security personnel, various human rights groups and social organisations will stage mass rally against AFSPA, militarisation and immunity from Mandi House to Parliament Street on December 11.The protest demonstration will raise the demand for repeal of AFSPA and all black laws in North East and Kashmir, not to retain the provisions of AFSPA indirectly via any other laws, to put an end to the climate of immunity in North East, Kashmir and other regions, to prosecute the military personnel guilty of violations against people and to put an end to the recurrent violations of citizen's democratic and human rights by means of military might.
The mass protest demonstration call has been issued jointly by Apunba Lup, MSAD, PUCL, Jagori, HRLN, LRS, DAMMS, JNSU, AISA, DUSU, FDI, MRFD, PSU, The Other Media, Indigenous Women's Resource Centre (NE Region), PUDR, PLS, Sangat, CGPI, MPO, ISI Delhi, KJS, SAD, KYSV, Yuva Bharat, Justice for Workers, NTUI, SPDPR, CASIM, Jamia Milia Islamia Students' Union, Saheli, United NGO Mission Manipur, People's Right Organisation, Reach Out, MRF, INSAF and various other individuals.