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Love in the time of AFSPA
The Hindu | Editorial | September 15, 2011
rom Sharmila's declaration that she is in love and will marry when her demand for the repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Provisions Act is met and she can call off her protest should shame the conscience of the nation. The United Progressive Alliance promised as far back as 2004 to replace the Act with a “more humane” law but has shown little interest in taking up the task in the face of opposition from the internal security establishment.
In recent days, the attention Ms Sharmila has received in the wake of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption hunger strike has served to highlight her personal life. She comes out as a resolute but lonely woman, caught between her iconic importance to the struggle against AFSPA and her own only-too-human desire to lead a normal life. Her plan to marry, “after my demand is fulfilled” (as she told a newspaper), a British national of Indian origin who has been corresponding with her and who she has met once is remarkable testimony to her spirit.
But is Irom Sharmila being held hostage by the anti-AFSPA campaign? For their part, other leaders of the movement, who have long been depending on one woman's hunger strike to keep it going, are dismayed at the attention to her private life and suspect it might be a plot to break her and the campaign.
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