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Date: Oct 9, 2006 1:58 AM
Subject: [Campaign update: manipur Freedom] Solidarity to Sharmila witnessed all over: CPI demands repeal of AFSPA in Manipur
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Solidarity to Sharmila witnessed all over: CPI demands repeal of AFSPA in Manipur
"The AFSPA has become a symbol of oppression and an instrument of discrimination and high handedness"
The Communist Party of India (CPI) today demanded the UPA Government to immediately scrap the Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA), 1958 in Manipur and make public the Justice (retd) Jeevan Reddy Committee report on it.
In a statement, CPI's National Secretary D Raja said that the party has been consistently demanding the repeal of the Act, which has once again come into focus in the wake of human rights activist Chanu Irom Sharmila's ongoing six-year long indefinite fast for repeal of the Act.
He regretted that though the Manipur unit of the CPI had conducted several agitations and protest programmes for repeal of the "draconian" and "repressive" Act, successive Government's have failed to take any action on the demand.
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Solidarity to Sharmila witnessed all over
Sit-in-protest demonstrations were continued to be held all across the Manipur State expressing solidarity with Irom Chanu Sharmila who has been fasting for nearly six years now demanding removal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 from Manipur.
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9th October 2006
The Sangai Express
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