Repeal AFSPA campaign : Staged set for mass hunger strike
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 04 2011:
As part of the ongoing 3rd Festival of Hope, Justice and Peace being organised by Just Peace Foundation, documentary films on Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Irom Chanu Sharmila's fast unto death stir demanding repeal of the draconian Act that gives sweeping power to personnel of Armed Forces, were screened at the hall of Mayum Network, Kwakeithel here today.
The festival is being organised to solicit public support over demand for repeal of the Act and to mark completion of 11 years of Sharmila's fast.
Tomorrow, members of Just Peace Foundation would staged a mass hunger strike at THAU Ground, Thangmeiband.
A nation-wide hunger strike has been called tomorrow in solidarity with Sharmila and her demand for repealing AFSPA .
MPP to go on hunger strike: As a show of solidarity to the mass hunger strike being planned in every nook and corner of India to press the demand for repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Manipur People's Party (MPP) would be observing a day-long fast at its party head office behind Pologround on November 5 from 10 am to 3 pm, according to a statement issued by Convenor of the Organising Committee, MPP M Maniton Mangang.
ACFOM members to join fast: In response to the call for observing 'all-India one-day fast cum demonstration' in support of the demand for repeal for Armed Forces Special Powers Act, members of Ancestral Composite Features of Manipur & Research Centre (ACFOM) would join hands with some rock band groups in showing solidarity at its office ACFOM at Nongmeibung on November 5 .
The Save Democracy, Repeal AFSPA (Group) has issued the call to mark the 11 years of fast by Irom Chanu Sharmila over the same demand.