A heroine after a 16year fast, now spurned by many

In her makeshift campaign office, surrounded by plywood desks and a giant whiteboard, Irom Chanu Sharmila rambled a bit, talking about the nearly 16 years she fasted to protest abuses by the armed forces, about spending most of that time in a hospital…

In her makeshift campaign office, surrounded by plywood desks and a giant whiteboard, Irom Chanu Sharmila rambled a bit, talking about the nearly 16 years she fasted to protest abuses by the armed forces, about spending most of that time in a hospital ward being force fed through a nose tube under a law in India criminalizing suicide and about her reasons for ending the hunger strike and emerging to contest coming elections in Manipur State Source The Sangai Express Courtesy New York Times

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