Irom Sharmila Chanu’s Satyagraha – On A Political Fast For The Past 11 Years

Imphal, Manipur: 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.

Irom Sharmila Chanu is a poet, a writer and an activist. She was brought to the jail ward of Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital at the age of 27. Now ten years have passed in solitary confinement.

She's been fighting for it relentlessly without bearing any fruit so far. But, what has exactly prompted her to take up this drastic step? A flashback of Malom Massacre gives you the answer.

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