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In India, 11-Year Hunger Strike Over Military Violence Is Waged in Shadows
New York Times | Lydia Polgreen | Sep 10, 2011, 11.02PM IST
Manichandra Singh with his mother and a picture of one of his brothers, who was killed with nine others on Nov. 2, 2000. The episode prompted Irom Chanu Sharmila's hunger strike. :: Manpreet Romana for The New York Times
She arrived in an ambulance, thin and ghostly pale, a tube dangling from her nostril. Flanked by police officers, she was ushered into the judge’s chambers for a fortnightly ritual she has repeated hundreds of times. Was she ready to end her fast?
Manichandra Singh with his mother and a picture of one of his brothers, who was killed with nine others on Nov. 2, 2000. The episode prompted Irom Chanu Sharmila's hunger strike.
Irom Chanu Sharmila, a 39-year-old poet and activist, gave her usual reply: no. With that, she was taken back to the hospital room where she spends her days in isolation, force-fed a sludgy mix of nutrients though the tube in her nose. This routine has gone on, remarkably, for 11 years.
A recent 12-day fast by the social activist Anna Hazareparalyzed India’s political system, captured the nonstop attention of its hyperkinetic 24-hour cable news media and inspired hundreds of thousands of people across the country to rally in his crusade against corruption.
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