By Priyankan Goswami on February 7, 2014
AFSPA, Ajit Bhuyan, amnesty international, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Assam, Assam Cyber Crime, Assamese, Cyber Crime, Cyber Crime by CanIndia, Cyber Crime by India Today, Cyber Crime by India TV, Cyber Crime by Jagaran, Cyber Crime by NewsX, Human Rights, Journalist, Parag Kumar Das, Paresh Baruah, TADA, ULFA
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It has more than 17 years. 17 long tearful years to a mother, a brother, wife, two children and other family members who have been denied of justice because their beloved son, brother, husband or father was the truest lover of his motherland. Every one of us who have lived through his times and those […]
By Hiranya Saikia on June 13, 2013
AFSPA, AFSPA nullifies the Right to Life, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Army, Assam, disappearances of arrested persons, extrajudicial killings, fake encounters, Human Rights, human rights violation, independence from India, Indian Army, Indian Parliament, Jeevan Reddy Committee, killing its own citizens, Manipur, mass arrests, Meghalaya, molestation, Naga National Council, occupational army, Operation Bajrang, torture, Tripura, ULFA, Why the AFSPA should be repealed
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The Indian Constitution which came into force on 26th January 1950 guaranteed the Right to Life and the Equality before Law to the people of India along with social, economic and political justice, freedom of thought and expression on which Indian democracy thrives. These pillars of democracy on which India claims to be the largest […]
By Ayekpam Basanta Mangang on May 31, 2013
AFSPA, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Assam, Bhanimai Dutta, Col Ajay Chowdhury, Counter Insurgency, divide and rule policy, Dulumaya Tamang, Gopinath Bordoloi, guerrilla, Heirangoithong Massacre, Hindu refugees, Human Rights, human rights violation, India, Indian Army, Indian Army atrocities, Indian Army smuggling, Kakopathar Massacre, Kilonser Thuingaleng Muivah, lethal weapon, liberation guerrillas, Malom Massacre, Mamoni Koch, Manipur, Miss Luingamla, Miss Rose, Nagaland, North East, NSCN, Oinam Massacre, Operation Rhino, Raju Barua, RMC Massacre, Sandimaya Tamang, Tera Bazar Massacre, Thangjam Manorama, Ujanmaidan incident
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What more can I write about the North East, which I must here, used the term Prison of Nations? While New Delhi continues to wait and watch like a jailer since her independence, she let AFSPA complete 55 years, turning the entire north east region into a slaughter house. Heirangoithong Massacre, Oinam Massacre, Operation Rhino, […]
By Ayekpam Basanta Mangang on May 12, 2013
AFSPA, Agartala, arbitrary detention, are we in a state of war, Armed Forces Special Power Act 1958, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, arrest, Assam, Bangladesh, BBC report, BHUTAN, China, detain, extra judicial killings, Human Rights, human rights violation, insurgents, Irom Sharmila, Irom Sharmila Chanu, Mahatma Gandhi, Manipur, Mizoram, Myanmar, Nagaland, outright killing, Supreme Court, torture
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Starting with the Naga insurgency since India’s independence in 1947, the north eastern region which has international borders with China, Myanmar, Bhutan and Bangladesh continues to be in the grip of secessionist insurgency. These demands for secession however, evoke strong reactions from the Indian State and deployment of a large number of security forces in […]
By Ayekpam Basanta Mangang on May 3, 2013
AFSPA, arbitrarily arrested, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, assault, atrocities, attacks, cultures, democratic, disappeared, displacement, exploitation, freedom fighter, harassment, Henry Jardine, Human Rights, ill-treated, India, Indian Constitution, killed, killing, military occupation, molestation, murder, National Counter Terrorism Centre, New Delhi, races, republic, secular, socialist, sovereign, subjugation, Terror, threatened, tortured, traditions
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India a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic, republic, is a powerful country in the world with an overpopulated, ever growing country rich in different cultures, traditions, races and religions. Its constitution lays down many provisions and rights to fulfill the aspirations of its citizens irrespective of caste, creed, sex and religion. While framing the world’s lengthiest […]
By Times of Assam Bureau on April 26, 2013
AFSPA, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Assam, Indian Constitution, J S Verma, Justice J S Verma
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By- Dilip Dutta The retired Chief Justice of India J S Verma is no more. As per NDTV he has died of multiple organ failure. While I have no information about the nature of his death and cause/causes behind it, The BBC reports that he died of liver failure due to abdominal problems. The facts […]
By Ayekpam Basanta Mangang on April 1, 2013
Arabinda Rajkhowa, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Counter Insurgency, fundamental rights, Indian Constitution, Insurgency, Isak Chisi Swu, Khaplang, liberation movement, Manipur, Mizo Accord, Mizo National Front, Nagaland, national liberation movement, National Security Act, New Delhi, North East India, Northeast, Northeast India, NSCN, Paresh Baruah, Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, revolutionary, revolutionary movements, Supreme Court, Tripura, ULFA, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Zomi Revolutionary Organization
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By- Ayekpam Basanta Mangang The Northeast which is known for its natural beauty, scenic landscape and peaceful environment is connected to the rest of India by a narrow strip of land which is known as the Siliguri Corridor in West Bengal. The region’s population which constitutes only about 3.8 percent of the total population of […]
By Times of Assam Bureau on March 4, 2013
AFSPA, Akash Jain, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Army, Imphal, Indian Army, Indian Army atrocities, Indian Army killing, Indian Penal Code, Irom Sharmila, Irom Sharmila Chanu, non violent protest, section 309
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By- Correspondent A Delhi court framed charges against Irom Sharmila Chanu on today, who has been on fast for about 12 years demanding repeal of controversial AFSPA, for allegedly attempting to commit suicide during her fast unto death in the national Capital in 2006. Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Akash Jain framed charges against 40 years old Chanu […]
By Times of Assam Bureau on August 28, 2012
AFSPA, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Assam violence, Bodo, BTAD violence, Kokrajhar, violence
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The recent exodus of about 30,000 of North East students, professional and workers from other parts of India due to the choreograph rumors after the fallout of ethnic violence in Kokrajhar, which have displaced about 400,000 people, killing 75, is termed as terrible violence between tribal Bodos and Muslims. The politician are cashing on such unfortunate incidents […]
By Priyankan Goswami on December 31, 2011
2G scam, AFSPA, Anna, Anna Hazare, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Assam, Baba Ramdev, BJP, Bodoland, capitalism, CBI, Congress, Democracy, Dr. Subramanian Swami, imperialism, Indian, Indian Democracy, IPS Kiran Bedi, Kiran Bedi, Lok Sabha, Lokpal, Lokpal Bill, MMRDA, Ramdev, Sonia Gandhi, SSB, Swami Ramdev, Swiss Bank, Swiss Bank black secret, Team Anna, Telengana
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No Anna or Irom Sharmila, no amount of hunger strikes or street protests will be able to clean our democracy whose virtues are slowly being spilled into the greater drains of capitalism, nepotism and imperialism. By – Priyankan Goswami The version 3.0 of Anna Hazare fasting for Lokpal bill has come to an end, even […]
