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Irom Sharmila, Bradley Manning
Irom Sharmila, 38, has not eaten anything,
or drunk a single drop of water for ten years.
She has been forcibly kept alive by a drip
thrust down her nose by the Indian State.
Irom Sharmila, 34, has not eaten anything,
or drunk a single drop of water for ten years.
She has been forcibly kept alive by a drip
thrust down her nose by the Indian State.
For ten years, nothing solid has entered her body.
Not a drop of water has touched her lips.
She has not combed her hair.
She cleans her teeth with dry cotton and
her lips with dry spirit so she will not sully her fast.
Her body is wasted inside and internal organs practically lost.
Her menstrual cycles have stopped. Yet she is resolute.
Whenever she can, she removes the tube from her nose.
It is her bounden duty,
she says, to make her voice heard in
“the most reasonable and peaceful way”.
This is the land of a Gandhi whom the nation has forgotten.
"Menghaobi" Irom Sharmila Chanu (born March 14, 1972),
also known as the Iron Lady of Manipur, is a civil rights activist,
political activist, journalist and poet from the Indian state of Manipur.
Since November 4, 2000, she's been on a political fast demanding
the Government of India to withdraw
the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, also otherwise known as AFSPA,
from Manipur and other areas of India's north east.
Ten years since it began in 2000,
Irom Sharmila Chanu's fast is unparalleled in the history of political protest.
Bradley Manning
has not seen daylight for the last 7 months.
. He is held in a 6 x 12 foot cell.
. He cannot talk to others
. He is not allowed to exercise in his cell
. Every 5 minutes he is woke up
to ask "Are you ok?" to confirm whether he is still alive
. No news or news paper
. 23 hours of each day he is put inside the cell
. For security reasons he is not given pillows or sheets
. This is most likely to create long-term
psychological injuries,
from which one rarely recovers.
All he did was to tell aloud the cruelties
of American State to the world
He is supposed to be the source of wikileaks on American defense establishment.
His sin was telling the truth to the world!
In the land of liberty no one expects him to see the day light again.
It is because of people like him that we have come to know that the combined
unaccounted money of China, Russia put together is merely a fraction
of the Indian Black money in the Swiss Banks
Irom Sharmila, Bradley Manning
Irom Sharmila, 38, has not eaten anything,
or drunk a single drop of water for ten years.
She has been forcibly kept alive by a drip
thrust down her nose by the Indian State.
Irom Sharmila, 34, has not eaten anything,
or drunk a single drop of water for ten years.
She has been forcibly kept alive by a drip
thrust down her nose by the Indian State.
For ten years, nothing solid has entered her body.
Not a drop of water has touched her lips.
She has not combed her hair.
She cleans her teeth with dry cotton and
her lips with dry spirit so she will not sully her fast.
Her body is wasted inside and internal organs practically lost.
Her menstrual cycles have stopped. Yet she is resolute.
Whenever she can, she removes the tube from her nose.
It is her bounden duty,
she says, to make her voice heard in
“the most reasonable and peaceful way”.
This is the land of a Gandhi whom the nation has forgotten.
"Menghaobi" Irom Sharmila Chanu (born March 14, 1972),
also known as the Iron Lady of Manipur, is a civil rights activist,
political activist, journalist and poet from the Indian state of Manipur.
Since November 4, 2000, she's been on a political fast demanding
the Government of India to withdraw
the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, also otherwise known as AFSPA,
from Manipur and other areas of India's north east.
Ten years since it began in 2000,
Irom Sharmila Chanu's fast is unparalleled in the history of political protest.
Bradley Manning
has not seen daylight for the last 7 months.
. He is held in a 6 x 12 foot cell.
. He cannot talk to others
. He is not allowed to exercise in his cell
. Every 5 minutes he is woke up
to ask "Are you ok?" to confirm whether he is still alive
. No news or news paper
. 23 hours of each day he is put inside the cell
. For security reasons he is not given pillows or sheets
. This is most likely to create long-term
psychological injuries,
from which one rarely recovers.
All he did was to tell aloud the cruelties
of American State to the world
He is supposed to be the source of wikileaks on American defense establishment.
His sin was telling the truth to the world!
In the land of liberty no one expects him to see the day light again.
It is because of people like him that we have come to know that the combined
unaccounted money of China, Russia put together is merely a fraction
of the Indian Black money in the Swiss Banks