PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2014 ID-6737
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SC ACQUITS ALL THE ACCUSED OF 2002 AKSHARDHAM TERROR STRIKE ! .
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Slams Gujarat Police Probe! ...._._,. s:r~rnina. Incarceration and injustice, .14.
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23.5.14 1Oth Anniversaryof Custodial Rape and Killing of PalestinianDeath Toil Crosses130-Israeli Thangjam Manorama in Manipurby Assam Rifles! PM Says: '"World Pressure Will Not .
10 Years of Refusal to Punish the Culprits! .
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..~ J _I! 9 1 i· (;.~~~Remember Manorama, .
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s-~· ...: .. ~~ ..,; ~:~t~. Resolve to Scrap AFSPA .
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on Aks =.. .r;~, .
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Acquit .
which .
· · ~ Speakers Gautam Navlakha noted HumanRightsActivist Dr. Pap~ri Bora .
Centre for Women's Studies, JNU .
Stop UsThere Is Still More To Go!" In 2012, the Israeli State Had Described Its Annual Genocidal Killing of Palestinjans as 'Mowing the Lawn'! .
Rise Up Against The Ongoing Genocidal Military Offensive by Racist Occupier Israel on Gaza! .
Join------.
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United Protest Demo at Israeli Embassy 14JulyMonday Assemble at Ganga Dhabaat10am .
10 years ago, in the early hours of 11 July 2004, the bullet torn body of 32 year old Thangjam Manorama Devi was found in.
integr .
Laipharok Maring of lmphal East district of Manipur. She had earlier been picked up from her home by the Assam Rifles on the 111nste pretext of being a 'suspected militant'. She had been fired with several bullets. There were gunshot wounds on the genitals and semen on her skirt. suggesting that she was raped before being tortured and killed. On July 15, women from the Meira Paibi.
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(Mothers' Front), in an unprecedented show of protest against this custodial rape and killing, marched to an Assam Rifles base The S in lmphal, stripped naked and raised a searing banner "Indian Army Rape Us". This most assertive and milrtant protest by the of tn Mothers of Manipur shook people's conscience across the world. An unresponsive ·mainstream' was shaken out of its indifference unde to the horrors of AFSPA and state repression that people in the North-East were witnessing everyday for decades. .
Even after 10 years, the case pertaining to the rape and murder of Manorama is still pending before the Supreme Court. The.
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army and central government have gone all the way to the Supreme Court to dodge prosecution, even though a judicial The · .
enquiry appointed by the state of Manipur has found the army personnel guilty. .
mve .
.
At the heart of this massive injustice lies the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958), AFSPA, which is in vogue in most POT parts of North East for last 66 years and in Kashmir (since 1989). This "lawless law". derived from the British period, gives.
., .
of tl immense licences to the armed forces in declared 'disturbed areas' to perpetrate atrocities against civilians and yet enjoy viol immunrty from any prosecution. Under the AFSPA, even a non-commissioned officer of the armed forces enjoys the 'special' power to kill on mere suspicion and gets legal immunity from prosecution. It confers a sense of impunity on the armed forces,The resulting in untold numbers of disappearances, outright murder and massacre in the name of 'encounters', torture, rape and .
w it! .
sexual violence and a host of other horrific violations of human rights and civil liberties. The widely exposed and protested fou instances of massacres like Oinam and Malom in the North-East, and the discovery of numerous unmarked mass graves in the Bra Kashmir Valley, the brazen cases of fake encounters like Pathribal and Macchhil or everyday instances of encounters, rape, and .
brutalities that go unreported, expose the brutal realities of civilian life in Kashmir and North~East under the 'security' forces'.
abc .
jackboots of PSA and AFSPA..
.
6:3 .
Indeed, the specific manner in which AFSPA has been instituted and invoked shows that AFSPA is fundamentally based on and.
thE .
derived from the violence to uinstitute order" rather than to "preserve" order, to institute the legttimacy of the "Indian State" m Th specffic areas and their inhabitants wherern the "Indian-ness" are problematic." It was for the repeal or the AFSPA that !rom su Sharmila, stirred by the gunning down of 10 civilians in Malom by the Assam Rifles in 2000, started a hunger fast ~ that lasts to this .
day. The nature of our 'investigative" agencies, the ease with which they frame innocents as uterrorists", t~e ease with which.
ex people are killed every single day under AFSPA is no secret. They reveal the underlying politics of witch-hunting and take.
w 'encounters' -a politics of racial profiling and communal targeting, a politics that allows these shameful ste~eotypes to continue.
tr.
.
' j": unabated . .. \e ,, ln the wake of the powerful people's movement in Manipur in 2004. the UPA-1 had set up the Committee headed by Justice Jeevan.
rT Reddy in 2005 to review the AFSPA. The Jeevan Reddy Committee had recommended repeal of trus law. The Admi0istrative "' Reforms Commission headed by Veerappa Moily in 2007 also recommended its repeal. Internationally, the UN bodies including d the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and recently the UN t Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders have consrstently urged for rts repeal. Yet the Jaw conttnues. Justice Verma .
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Committee (JVC). formed after the 16 December gang rape and murder tn Delhi, recommended the review of AFSPA and the.
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immunity it grants to the armed forces in cases of sexual violence against women in the 'd,sturbed ~reas'. JVC obs~n:ed "that E .
"impunity for systematic or isolated sexual violence in the process of internal security duties 1S being· legittmised by th'e AFSPA" and "women in conflict areas are entitled to all the security and dtgnity that is afforded to citizens in any other pv.rc ofour colJntiy." The committee recommended that the requirement of sanction for prosecution of armed forces personnel shoilld be specifically excluded when a sexual offence is alleged and they should be tried under. norma/law, and also suggested to 'take special care for the safety of complainants and witnesses in cases of sexual assault by armed personner. However the Central govegtment discarded these important recommendations given by Justice Verma Committee. .
Ten years after Manorama was brutally raped and killed, AFSPA continues. In addition to AFSPA. ~Xtra-jurid,cal viofence:of the state continues to be supported by draconian Jaws. such as Disturbed Areas Act (DSA). ChhCtt~.
isgSA·}, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), National Security Act (N~A)"and N(.!tionnl lrw~sti£Jatiye Age·ncy Act ('NIA). AISA appeals to the student community to participate in a public meeting tonight at Godavari mes& fronf9)0 pm onwards, agairtst AFSPA and all forms of state repression. .
Ashutosh, Gen.Secy, AISA, JNU Chintu, Jt. Secy. AISA, JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2014 ID-6737
.
-vprre an On · an Sis Pro~ '9o'ng GscA.~~~ .. ,. .
1 -essor JJ_.
' . [ .
.
SC ACQUITS ALL THE ACCUSED OF 2002 AKSHARDHAM TERROR STRIKE ! .
.
Slams Gujarat Police Probe! ...._._,. s:r~rnina. Incarceration and injustice, .14.
.
-.---·~._..,., .
23.5.14 1Oth Anniversaryof Custodial Rape and Killing of PalestinianDeath Toil Crosses130-Israeli Thangjam Manorama in Manipurby Assam Rifles! PM Says: '"World Pressure Will Not .
10 Years of Refusal to Punish the Culprits! .
.
..~ J _I! 9 1 i· (;.~~~Remember Manorama, .
~a I JJ~~ .. .
s-~· ...: .. ~~ ..,; ~:~t~. Resolve to Scrap AFSPA .
.
The ( In an ir .
r lll -· AR~~ .
on Aks =.. .r;~, .
three ' .
Acquit .
which .
· · ~ Speakers Gautam Navlakha noted HumanRightsActivist Dr. Pap~ri Bora .
Centre for Women's Studies, JNU .
Stop UsThere Is Still More To Go!" In 2012, the Israeli State Had Described Its Annual Genocidal Killing of Palestinjans as 'Mowing the Lawn'! .
Rise Up Against The Ongoing Genocidal Military Offensive by Racist Occupier Israel on Gaza! .
Join------.
.
United Protest Demo at Israeli Embassy 14JulyMonday Assemble at Ganga Dhabaat10am .
10 years ago, in the early hours of 11 July 2004, the bullet torn body of 32 year old Thangjam Manorama Devi was found in.
integr .
Laipharok Maring of lmphal East district of Manipur. She had earlier been picked up from her home by the Assam Rifles on the 111nste pretext of being a 'suspected militant'. She had been fired with several bullets. There were gunshot wounds on the genitals and semen on her skirt. suggesting that she was raped before being tortured and killed. On July 15, women from the Meira Paibi.
and g .
(Mothers' Front), in an unprecedented show of protest against this custodial rape and killing, marched to an Assam Rifles base The S in lmphal, stripped naked and raised a searing banner "Indian Army Rape Us". This most assertive and milrtant protest by the of tn Mothers of Manipur shook people's conscience across the world. An unresponsive ·mainstream' was shaken out of its indifference unde to the horrors of AFSPA and state repression that people in the North-East were witnessing everyday for decades. .
Even after 10 years, the case pertaining to the rape and murder of Manorama is still pending before the Supreme Court. The.
Th e .
army and central government have gone all the way to the Supreme Court to dodge prosecution, even though a judicial The · .
enquiry appointed by the state of Manipur has found the army personnel guilty. .
mve .
.
At the heart of this massive injustice lies the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958), AFSPA, which is in vogue in most POT parts of North East for last 66 years and in Kashmir (since 1989). This "lawless law". derived from the British period, gives.
., .
of tl immense licences to the armed forces in declared 'disturbed areas' to perpetrate atrocities against civilians and yet enjoy viol immunrty from any prosecution. Under the AFSPA, even a non-commissioned officer of the armed forces enjoys the 'special' power to kill on mere suspicion and gets legal immunity from prosecution. It confers a sense of impunity on the armed forces,The resulting in untold numbers of disappearances, outright murder and massacre in the name of 'encounters', torture, rape and .
w it! .
sexual violence and a host of other horrific violations of human rights and civil liberties. The widely exposed and protested fou instances of massacres like Oinam and Malom in the North-East, and the discovery of numerous unmarked mass graves in the Bra Kashmir Valley, the brazen cases of fake encounters like Pathribal and Macchhil or everyday instances of encounters, rape, and .
brutalities that go unreported, expose the brutal realities of civilian life in Kashmir and North~East under the 'security' forces'.
abc .
jackboots of PSA and AFSPA..
.
6:3 .
Indeed, the specific manner in which AFSPA has been instituted and invoked shows that AFSPA is fundamentally based on and.
thE .
derived from the violence to uinstitute order" rather than to "preserve" order, to institute the legttimacy of the "Indian State" m Th specffic areas and their inhabitants wherern the "Indian-ness" are problematic." It was for the repeal or the AFSPA that !rom su Sharmila, stirred by the gunning down of 10 civilians in Malom by the Assam Rifles in 2000, started a hunger fast ~ that lasts to this .
day. The nature of our 'investigative" agencies, the ease with which they frame innocents as uterrorists", t~e ease with which.
ex people are killed every single day under AFSPA is no secret. They reveal the underlying politics of witch-hunting and take.
w 'encounters' -a politics of racial profiling and communal targeting, a politics that allows these shameful ste~eotypes to continue.
tr.
.
' j": unabated . .. \e ,, ln the wake of the powerful people's movement in Manipur in 2004. the UPA-1 had set up the Committee headed by Justice Jeevan.
rT Reddy in 2005 to review the AFSPA. The Jeevan Reddy Committee had recommended repeal of trus law. The Admi0istrative "' Reforms Commission headed by Veerappa Moily in 2007 also recommended its repeal. Internationally, the UN bodies including d the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and recently the UN t Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders have consrstently urged for rts repeal. Yet the Jaw conttnues. Justice Verma .
. . , .
Committee (JVC). formed after the 16 December gang rape and murder tn Delhi, recommended the review of AFSPA and the.
'·. 1 .
immunity it grants to the armed forces in cases of sexual violence against women in the 'd,sturbed ~reas'. JVC obs~n:ed "that E .
"impunity for systematic or isolated sexual violence in the process of internal security duties 1S being· legittmised by th'e AFSPA" and "women in conflict areas are entitled to all the security and dtgnity that is afforded to citizens in any other pv.rc ofour colJntiy." The committee recommended that the requirement of sanction for prosecution of armed forces personnel shoilld be specifically excluded when a sexual offence is alleged and they should be tried under. norma/law, and also suggested to 'take special care for the safety of complainants and witnesses in cases of sexual assault by armed personner. However the Central govegtment discarded these important recommendations given by Justice Verma Committee. .
Ten years after Manorama was brutally raped and killed, AFSPA continues. In addition to AFSPA. ~Xtra-jurid,cal viofence:of the state continues to be supported by draconian Jaws. such as Disturbed Areas Act (DSA). ChhCtt~.
isgSA·}, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), National Security Act (N~A)"and N(.!tionnl lrw~sti£Jatiye Age·ncy Act ('NIA). AISA appeals to the student community to participate in a public meeting tonight at Godavari mes& fronf9)0 pm onwards, agairtst AFSPA and all forms of state repression. .
Ashutosh, Gen.Secy, AISA, JNU Chintu, Jt. Secy. AISA, JNU .
.
.