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Irom Sharmila... 10 years on :: The Hindu
By - M. S. Prabhakara : November 3, 2010
What can one say of a woman who has steadfastly refused to eat for 10 years, is under arrest (though not tried) on charges of attempt to commit suicide, and has been kept alive by forced nasal feeding by the state? On November 4, 2010, Irom Chanu Sharmila completes 10 years of her self-imposed ordeal, with no sign when, or even whether, it will ever end. The ordeal began on that day, in 2000, three days after personnel of the 8 Assam Rifles (AR) opened indiscriminate fire on a group of villagers waiting at a roadside bus shelter at Malom village, near Imphal airport, and killed 10, one of them a pregnant woman.
Irom Sharmila's achievement is that she has become an image and a symbol of the pain and tragic memories not merely of her people but of democrats everywhere. But this symbol is now imprisoned by the very power of what it symbolises, and the forces she has released.
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