Ashraf Javed LAHORE – Born in 1972, Irom Sharmila is one of the leading sacrificing spirits in the world as a human rights activist, journalist and poetess, who decided to write a new history with her blood against Indian atrocities. She had launched a protest movement against Indian Black Laws, (Armed Forces Special Power Act) following troops of 8-Assam Rifles gunned down at least 10 innocent people while they had been waiting for the transport near a bus stop on November 2, 2000. As an eyewitness, she was deeply moved watching the gory incident and decided there and then to devote her life to wage a struggle against ‘AFSPA’ imposed in Manipur that gives the Indian soldiers a licence to kill without facing any prosecution. According to reports in the ‘Times of India’, some 500 people are killed every year due to this black law but the actual figures of casualty toll is manifold high. When she began her fast onto death, two other women also accompanied her but Sharmila was later left alone in her lonely war. At present she is being fed through the nose to keep her alive. Her hunger strike has entered the 11th year but there seems no positive response from all those who are at the helms of affairs in India. Her condition is deteriorating day by day and the doctors in Jawaharlal Nehru hospital at Imphal have now lost the hope of her survival, if no intervention from the international community to play its role to repeal the said black law succeeds. On October 23, she had made her last wish for a memorial near her house at village Malom. As the call for scraping the AFSPA gained momentum, Indian security forces resorted to alleged custodial rape and murder of 32-year-old Thangjam Manorama Devi in 2004. Her death again set the state in tail spin when thousands of human right activists thronged the streets and there was a chain of protest rallies, public strikes, self-emollition by a young person and unprecedented enthusiastic fervour to visit Sharmila to express their solidarity with her mission. There may be no worst tradition, the world has ever witnessed than the stigma Indian government inscribed on their forehead when nearly a dozen elderly women of Manipur staged a naked demonstration in the streets to shake the world conscience. The photographs of those women appeared in the weekly ‘Outlook’ but such an agonizing action even failed to shake the Indian government.
MORE http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/02-Dec-2010/Irom-Sharmila-A-lone-warrior-in-Indian-history -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews. *SAY NO TO UID CAMPAIGN- SPREAD THE WORD AND JOIN FB GROUP* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/ http://questioningaadhaar.blogspot.com/* http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B67A798223F96E73 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
