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Naga orgs revisit AFSPA era with UN Rapporteur
Morung Express | Al Ngullie| April 9 :
A number of Naga civil organizations recently joined other northeast region-based Human Rights organizations in Assam’s Guwahati to express their denouncement of the Black Law, the infamous Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 of the Government of India. The dark decades of the 1950 till the early 1980s in Nagaland under the hand of the AFSPA-empowered Indian military, was the presentation of the Naga organizations to the United Nations Special rapporteur Christof Heyns during the meeting.
Mass-based civil groups from the North Eastern Region had converged in Guwahati during March last week when Christof Heyns was in India to recommend to the Indian government to repeal the draconian law, among other repressive state laws.
From Nagaland, a number of leaders from the Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) and some from the south Naga areas attended the open meeting with Christof Heyns. The meeting was held March 28, at Hotel Bhramaputra in Guwahati proper.
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