TODAY -
The iron lady of Manipur - Irom Sharmila
South Asia Mail | Reji Greenland | Aug 28:
Irom Sharmila's struggle to get the Armed Forces Special Act (AFSPA) out from her state of Manipur has entered its tenth year on Tuesday.
The Iron Lady of Manipur as she is often called has been on a fast for the last ten years protesting against the AFSPA that is in place in parts of Manipur and the north east and gives the Army and ...the paramilitary forces the power to shoot or arrest on mere suspicion. Sharmila's fast began 10 years ago after an incident involving the Assam Rifle in Malom.
Sharmila now weighs 37 kgs, most of her body organs are wasted and her menstrual cycle has stopped. The Indian state has kept her alive on a cocktail of vitamins and nutrients. She is force-fed twice a day through her nose.
Sharmila's simple Gandhian fast - an epic protest - remains unparalleled in history and for her mother although she hasn’t seen her daughter in the last ten years for fear that her brave daughter may see her mother’s weak side. Not just Sharmila, not just the mothers, women of Manipur have become the face and perhaps the solution of an unceasing war.
Meanwhile Irom Sharmila is continuing with her fast, 10 years on, still hoping some day peace would return.
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