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Manipur: Irom Sharmila completes 10 years of fasting :: NDTV
By - Kishalay Bhattacharjee, NDTV Correspondent : November 04, 2010 09:02 IST
On the world's longest hunger strike, Irom Sharmila has completed ten years of fasting over human rights abuses in Manipur and promises to continue. Silently but forcefully, she is highlighting the rarely reported decade-long insurgency in Manipur and the government's response to it with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), something she opposes.
NDTV: In Manipur ten years back, there was a 27-year-old girl who sat in Malom for a protest. Ten years later, what do you see when you look back?
Irom Sharmila: Let us realise why we are here in this world. How and when we will go away from here? This is our duty to just self-realise.
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