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Irom Sharmila A Symbol Of Peace And Ahimsa
Eastern Panorama | Khurai Doren | Sept. 22:
Who, in the land of Mahatma Gandhi, will not be moved at the disrespect and neglect of Manipur’s daughter and Iron Lady, Irom Sharmila, who has been struggling to uphold human rights in the states through the Father of the Nation’s path of Ahimsa and Satyagrah?
Only those who have no regard for democracy, non violence, harmony, tolerance and humanity he epitomized throughout the freedom struggle he led against the British rule in India.Manipur is now ill – famed for incessant fake encounters with insurgents and wanton killings of innocent citizens perpetrated by security forces in the name of self defence.
Sharmila has thus become the personification of courage, sacrifice and non – violence while struggling for the noble cause of humanity, undoubtedly with no parallel in human history. She has been honoured with the Gwanju Award of South Korea, Maliyamma Award (2009) of the Maliyamma Foundation of Kerala and the Rabindranath Tagore Peace Aard (2010) of the Indian Institute of Planning & Management.
No wonder, even the Mahatma would have been thrilled with this decade – long feat of the Iron Lady. But, behold! The Government of her own native state of Manipur has been treating her as nothing less than a nuisance and putting this great soul of Manipur in confinement on the charge of attempting to commit suicide. Even worse, to the Government of India, Sharmila is simply a non – entity and her struggle a non issue.
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