Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Irom Sharmila Chanu: 11 years of an epic struggle.



Q: Do U know Katrina Kaif ?
Ans:Ohh yes I am a big fan of her…..

Q:Do U know Kareena Kapoor?
Ans:arey yaar she is my Dream Girl....

Q:Do U know who is She(In the picture)?
Ans:haaaa..........once saw her in news bt don’t know.....

This is our LIFE
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She is Irom Sharmila Chanu also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Menghoubi" ("the fair one") is a civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. On November 2, 2000, in Malom, a town in the Imphal Valley of Manipur, ten civilians were allegedly shot and killed by the Assam Rifles, one of the Indian Paramilitary forces operating in the state, while waiting at a bus stop. The incident later came to be known to activists as the "Malom Massacre". The next day's local newspapers published graphic pictures of the dead bodies, including one of a 62-year old woman, Leisangbam Ibetomi, and 18-year old Sinam Chandramani, a 1988 National Child Bravery Award winner. On the Friday third of November she had her last supper of pastries and sweets then touched her mother's feet and asked permission to fulfill her bounden duty. Three days after she began her strike, she was arrested by the police and charged with an "attempt to commit suicide", which is unlawful under section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, and was later transferred to judicial custody. Her health deteriorated rapidly, and the police then forcibly had to use nasogastric intubation in order to keep her alive while under arrest. Since then, Irom Sharmila has been regularly released and re-arrested every year since under IPC section 309, a person who "attempts to commit suicide" is punishable "with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year. Since 4th  November 2000, she has been on hunger strike to demand that the Indian government repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) A law that gives Army the power to shoot anyone at their will, A draconian law with many other inhuman provisions, which she blames for violence in Manipur and other parts of India's northeast. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker". She has been fasting for the past 11 years. (the Manipur govt giving liquid food through her nose from last 11 years )
we doesn't know much about her because of "NO PUBLICITY",
Even Nautanki's like Rakhi Sawant, Salman Khan or Punam Pandey's are known to everybody but not a Brave woman like her who sacrificed herself for humanity.


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