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The AFSPA - A famine of peace and justice
Asian Affairs | Kuldip Nayar | November 2011
Hunger-striker Irom Sharmila symbolises the struggle against the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which the Indian government seems unwilling to tackle,
There is no governance worth the name in the area. However, it is part of India because the armed forces are there in full strength, often blurring the demarcation lines between the military and the civil.
Not only that, the army has forced New Delhi to frame the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which enables even an ordinary soldier to kill a person on suspicion. The soldier, meanwhile, is protected under the AFSPA. There has been uproar against this draconian measure throughout the country, yet still New Delhi remains unmoved.
It is strange that there is countrywide sympathy and support for Sharmila, yet at the same time very little criticism of the army or its insistence in continuing the imposition of the AFSPA. In India and, for that matter, certain developing countries, the armed forces are a sacred cow. Even the media does not write against them, or even try to probe into their affairs. This is something which is just not done.
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