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By - Sabhapati Samom, Hindustan Times : October 30, 2010
But has Sharmila's belief in the Gandhian way of dissenting been effective in a state used to talking with the gun? Rights activists insist it has. They point to the withdrawal of AFSPA from the Imphal municipal areas after a mass uprising in 2004 against the alleged custodial rape and murder of 32-year-old Thangjam Manorama Devi. And the global support Sharmila has mobilised with her silent protest from her ‘prison cell' — a high-security ward in Imphal's Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital.
A pipe through the nose to keep her on a liquid diet has been Sharmila's constant companion in these 10 years. "The AFSPA is linked with this," she once said. "The Act goes, so does the pipe." The tube is likely to remain for some more time, with New Delhi not too keen on watering down or scrapping the AFSPA.
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