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About the Armed
Forces Special Powers Act - (uploaded
by permission from Combat Law on 23 Aug 2004)
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act or AFSPA is a direct
descendent of an Act enacted by the British in 1942. It gives
sweeping powers to armed forces including power to carry out
searches with warrant, to use force to kill any person on
suspicion of disturbing public order. Such a law is in negation
the very essence of human rights and is totally unacceptable
in mordern times.
Violations of
Rights by the use of AFSPA in Manipur - Independent
People's Inquiry Report (uploaded by permission from Combat
Law on 23 Aug 2004)
The terms of reference of the Independent People’s
Inquiry Commission was to inquire into the overall human rights
situation in the State of Manipur as a consequence of the
prolonged application of the Armed Forces (Special Powers)
Act, 1958.
Click here to see the issue
of Combat Law in the pdf format
Manipur: Whom
to Believe -- Army Generals or Chief Ministers ? - By
Oken Jeet Sandham - Asian Tribune (31 July 2004)
So long the leaderships of the country remain indifferent
on the issues facing the region and cannot take any citizen
living in this part of the region as one family; the integrity
of this country will naturally be at stake. Let the law of
the country prevails everywhere without any bias or prejudice
and honor the sentiments of the masses be it in Nagaland or
Manipur or elsewhere.
Mumbai residents
protest for removal of POTA - (29
July 2004)
"Why is POTA there? - Because there is no democracy!"
"POTA must go!" and many other chants greeted as
the evening commuter arrived at Platforms three and four of
the Mumbai's busy local Churchgate station on 29 July 2004.
More than a hundred protestors militantly demonstrated as
part of a action planned in seven major cities of India, namely,
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and
Ranchi.
Encounter Truth
: Gujarat police as investigator, prosecutor and judge
- By Mukundan C Menon (July 2004)
Even after three weeks of making all that orchestrated
loud claims, charges and accusations against the four alleged
Lashkar terrorists killed in the June 15 encounter at Ahmedabad
outskirts, the Detection of Crime Bureau (DCB) of Gujarat
is faced with two embarrassing questions: One, why and how
its carefully scripted encounter story failed to act as a
best-seller among the general public? And, two, how to convince
the Union government that two of the corpses, which still
remain unclaimed and unidentified in the city civil hospital
mortuary, are indeed of Pakistani nationals?
and more ....
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