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Perhaps if Anna's protest had been here in Manipur, the response would not have been so vigorous: Irom Sharmila
Ratnadip Choudhury | Tehelka | 22 August 2011
Anna Hazare, another believer in non-violence is fasting as a means of protest…
I have heard of Anna Hazare’s protest. Non-violence, taught to us by the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, is the only means to achieve solutions. It is really good that the nation has woken up to corruption and the protest is centred at New Delhi so the lawmakers will be able to understand the intensity. We also once tried to take our fight to New Delhi by staging protests at Jantar Mantar but we did not get support from the rest of the nation, perhaps because AFSPA only affects the Northeast and Jammu & Kashmir.
But the country should take it as an issue concerning the nation. We are protesting here at Imphal and New Delhi is far—perhaps if Anna’s protest had been here in Manipur, the response would not have been so vigorous. The Centre has never tried to lend an ear to our cause, the national media barring a few has not been sensitive to Northeast, and this is a symbolic example of discrimination.
The Guwahati High Court has asked the Manipur government to act upon the probe report on the 2004 rape and murder of Thangjam Manorama Devi. Do you feel justice will be delivered? In my lifetime, I have never seen the punishing of any criminal who commit horrendous acts like the brutal killing of Manorama and Luningla Elizabeth after gangrapes or of the SDO Kishen by our concerned administrators. There is no justice in Manipur. And yet I am positive.
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