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
EXCLUSIVE, REGIONAL
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 Times of Assam Bureau on June 08, 2011
AFSPA, Anna Hazare, Assam, British, Gandhi, Human Rights, India, Irom Sharmila, Jallianwala Bagh, Mahatma Gandhi, Manipur, Radev, Ramlila Maidan
ARTICLES, HEADLINES
By– Pranjit Sarmah The incident at Ramlila Maidan of Delhi where the police attacked Ramdev and his supporters is being compared with the brutal Jallianwala bagh incident. One could already see media headlines such as ‘democracy has been killed by government’, ‘emergency like situation’, ‘Jallianwala Bagh like situation created by government’ and many more. In […]
