{"id":167023,"date":"2015-11-06T04:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=80163"},"modified":"2015-11-06T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T09:02:31","slug":"msad-stands-with-irom-sharmila-to-repeal-afspa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2015\/11\/06\/msad-stands-with-irom-sharmila-to-repeal-afspa\/","title":{"rendered":"MSAD stands with Irom Sharmila to repeal AFSPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Solidarity-to-Irom-Sharmilas-15-years-hunger-strike.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-0\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80164 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Solidarity-to-Irom-Sharmilas-15-years-hunger-strike-e1446800214797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, November 6: No Indian Governments in the last 57 years in India, including the present Narendra Modi government, have heeded to the people\u2019s demand to repeal the oppressive military instrument of the Indian state called the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Narendra Modi, his predecessors \u00a0and Indian government officials do not bother even to meet Irom Sharmila, who has been fasting for the last 15 years to repeal this Act, showing the undemocratic and colonial characters of the Indian state, said a press release by Manipur Students\u2019 Association Delhi (MSAD).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80165\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Students-preparing-to-launch-the-sky-lanterns.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-1\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80165 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Students-preparing-to-launch-the-sky-lanterns-453x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participating in Delhi Demonstration in Solidarity for entering 16 years of Hunger strike by Irom Sharmila<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>MSAD has stated in the press release that this year\u2019s November 5 has added another year to Irom Sharmila\u2019s resistance against the martial law and culture of impunity enjoyed by the Indian armed forces under the power of AFSPA. In the \u2018Indian sub-continent\u2019, Indian state indulges in crimes against humanity and Sharmila uses her body as the weapon in the fight against the inhuman and draconian Act and becomes a political prisoner. To recall, the immediate spark of her steadfast hunger strike was the Malom massacre by the Indian soldiers in Manipur that killed ten civilians, including women and children on November 2, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Armed Forces Special Powers Act is a notorious instrument of State terrorism, humiliations, prolonged detentions, tortures, killings, destructions, traumas, deprivations and disturbances; the logical culmination is unrestraint widespread culture of impunity by the state forces. This Act serves the agenda of creating a category of suspects and \u2018disturbed areas\u2019 to be oppressed at will; to suppress democratic voices against oppressive political regimes, exploitative market forces and destructive projects. The Act is symptomatic of an undeclared war trajectory superimposed on a category of subjected people, whose political aspirations and democratic rights are marginalized in the name of India\u2019s security. The brutality of the colonial rule that British India had faced in the 1940s is what we are experiencing under a different political jargon called \u2018disturbed areas, added MSAD in the press release.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2015\/11\/msad-stands-with-irom-sharmila-to-repeal-afspa\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2015\/11\/msad-stands-with-irom-sharmila-to-repeal-afspa\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, November 6: No Indian Governments in the last 57 years in India, including the present Narendra Modi government, have heeded to the people&rsquo;s demand to repeal the oppressive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[263,43,330,100,2942],"class_list":["post-167023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-irom-sharmila","tag-k-featured","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-press-release","tag-repeal-afspa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167024,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167023\/revisions\/167024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}