Black laws deliberated
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, February 15 2015: A one day conference on black laws in India was held today at Manipur University Centenary Hall under the aegis of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization (CDRO) and Committee on Human Rights (COHR) Manipur.

Speaking at the conference, CDRO and COHR chairman Phulindro Konsam said that the Government of India has been enforcing many laws and legislation which were enacted during the period of British colonialism.

As these laws were basically aimed at sustaining colonial rule.

All these laws are inherently anti-people.

India is a sub-continent inhabited by people belonging to different races and religion.

Many black laws are being enforced in some selected States thereby openly following a policy of discrimination and subjugation.

The infamous Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act is a case in point, Phulindro said.

It cannot be ruled out that the human skulls and skeletal remains discovered from the erstwhile Tombisana High School campus were of those people who disappeared involuntarily after they were picked up by security forces.

Like in Manipur, there have been reports of rampant human rights violation, fake encounters and repression in some other States too.

Although India claims to be a democratic country, many fundamental norms of democracy are not followed in many parts of the country, Phulindro asserted.

MU Vice Chancellor H Nandakumar, COHR chairman Phulindro Konsam and MU Dean of Students Welfare Prof Hemakumar attended the conference as chief guest, president and guest of honour respectively.

North East Dialogue Forum convenor U Nobokishore said that a joint meeting on black laws being enforced in selected States of the country and its impacts would be deliberated together with CDRO's of Delhi, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Jammu & Kashmir and resolutions adopted at the meeting would be submitted to relevant authorities.

Large sections of the people of India are suffering from black laws which have their legacy in the colonial era.

Because of these black laws, there are reports of rampant human rights violation in different parts of the country, Nobokishore asserted.

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