From: mukta srivastava <muktaliberated@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:14 AM
Subject: [initiative-india] Please join Irom sharmila solidarity campaign on 4th November (today) at 5 pm
To:
Please Join
IROM Sharmila Solidarity campaign
on
4th November 2011
at
Marine drive (near JAZZ by the way), Mumbai
from
5 pm to 8 pm.
IT'S TIME YOU TOOK A STAND BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!
· Would you allow anyone, even the police and Indian army to enter your home in the middle of the night and arrest you without warrant?
· Would you allow anyone you love to be shot and killed merely on 'suspicion'?
Obviously, you wouldn't. For the right to life and liberty is guaranteed to you as an Indian citizen. Now the question is: Would you watch and do nothing when others in your own country are subjected to this inhuman treatment?
Under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) which is enforced in the state of Manipur, J&K and other parts of North East, any person in the army or paramilitary forces, even a non-commissioned officer can:
· Arrest citizens and enter their property without warrant,
· Shoot and kill anyone on mere 'suspicion'.
The AFSPA has been enforced in Manipur almost continuously since 1980 purportedly to crush insurgency. However the AFSPA as become a tool for abuse, oppression and discrimination by the State. In such a situation, rape, fake encounters, abduction, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and death, as well as, destruction and looting of property has become common in the state.
Why should you be worried about it?
This draconian law can be introduced in any part of India declared by the Union as 'disturbed' and be enforced upon its citizens. The Act gives tremendous and arbitrary powers to the army without any safeguards for citizens' rights. Also no legal proceedings can be carried out against the army's abuse of power without the permission of the Central government.
Imagine the government enforcing the act in Mumbai in the wake of the terrorist attack of 26/11 in the name of flushing out terrorists? Would you have allowed it?
Irom Sharmila Chanu a Manipuri poet, moved by the plight of her people and after the Indian Army massacred 10 civilians in Malom, Manipur, went on a hunger strike on 2 November, 2000 to force the government to repeal the AFSPA. She was arrested on 6th November and has been forcibly fed by a plastic tube inserted through her nose from Nov 2000 (exactly 11 years ago today). She has been thus ever...
Today she would complete 11 year of her fast ...
· How long will the human rights abuses continue?
· How long should sharmila keep fasting for demanding justice for Manipur people in a democratic country like India?
· How long will YOU allow it to continue?
A campaign under the banner "Save Irom Sharmila Solidarity Campaign" has been launched October 2nd 2011 in 22 States including Maharashtra of India & will culminate at Rajghat on December 10 2011.
Please join the campaign on the 4th November 2011 in Mumbai and be part of it till December 2011 and beyond... Be in touch...
In solidarity
Mukta srivastava, Daniel Mazgaonkar, Tushar Joag, Humanshu , Shakil Ahmed , Guddi SL, Atik Ahmed, Sukla Sen, Asad, Jatin Desai, Vinita BalKundari, Sabah Khan, Pervin Jehangir, Vijaya Chauhan
(On behalf Of Save Irom Sharmila Solidarity Campaign, Mumbai)
Contact: Guddi 09869059860, Mukta Srivastava: 9969530060
e-mail: saveirommumbai@gmail.com, daniel.mazgoankar@gmail.com, muktaliberated@gmail.com ,
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