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Church body calls for anti-AFSPA meet
Times of India | TNN | Sep 8, 2014, 06.51 AM IST
A church body has arranged for a public meeting at the Durbar Hall of Mission Compound here on September 11 to seek repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958, which is operational particularly in Manipur and Kashmir, as an expression of solidarity with all those who are for repealing of the "draconian act".
Citing the anti-AFSPA struggle by Irom Sharmila, he said that in August 2004, the executive committee of the National Council of Churches in India had written to the then President and PM to have the Act repealed. "Its Peoples' Forum Pre-Assembly and Quadrennial Assembly held in Bangalore in April 2012, had passed resolutions to the effect," he said.
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