Tuesday, November 09, 2010

News at Eleven: On the world's longest hunger strike,

Irom Sharmila has completed ten years of fasting over human rights abuses in Manipur and promises to continue.

Silently but forcefully, she is highlighting the rarely reported decade-long insurgency in Manipur and the government's response to it with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), something she opposes.

from NDTV: Manipur: Irom Sharmila completes 10 years of fasting

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