Irom Sharmila, atleast some of you might have heard about her. Born into a middle class Mizoramese family, she is an ordinary woman and human being, like all of us. What makes her extraordinary is her will power to resist and to protest.
We all can go on fast for a day, or, might be two. But what about 3days? 1 week? 1month? Or else, 1year? Impossible, right? This woman has on fast, without even a drop of water, for the past 11years! The longest hunger strike ever in the history. She started her strike on 4th November, 2000, against Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA). It was enacted to curb insurgency in the state, but, it has contributed only in adding to violence there.
The paramilitary forces in Mizoram has been making it a hell to live in. Torture, disappearences, rapes, murders, extrajudicial executions, and what not! India has produced a lot of great soldiers and patriots. They all must be ashamed of this bunch. The ordinary people have been suffering between the activists and terrorists on one side and these forces on the other. And the Govt is acting blind to all these. The women marched to the Military Camp there, naked, with the banner 'RAPE US BLOODY INDIAN ARMY'. How many of us are aware adn do protest against all this?
The immediate cause for the commencement of Irom Sharmila's hunger strike was the massacre of 10 people by the army, including a 62 year old woman and an 18 year old boy. She hasn't seen her mother since she started the fast, as her mother doesn't have the courage to see her in this condition. The police arrest her frequently, and forcefully nose-feed her. Thats the reason why she is still surviving. But, even their force hasn't been sufficient to make this brave woman eat or drink. She has time and time again requested the President, Prime Minister, and many other authorities to repeal the AFSP Act, but never have they even bothered to respond or treat her properly.
Irom Sharmila Chanu, is truely, THE IROM LADY OF MANIPUR. She will be on hunger strike untill the AFSP Act is repelled. She hasn't given up to either the Govt's stubbornness, or the Police and Army's force. She has ignited the lamp of a revolution, a fight to survive. It is the duty of each and everyone of us to carry that light forward. If the Govt is not ready to serve the people properly, more and more Irom Sharmilas will come up, and they will not be able to stand it. This battle is still not lost, and this will not be. LETS JOIN OUR HANDS AND SOUL WITH THIS GREAT WOMAN, GREATEST REVOLUTIONARY OF OUR ERA, AND FIGHT FOR A NEW INDIA!
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