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11:39 PM, Aug 05, 2009

New Delhi: Many Manipuris want the Armed Forces' (Special Powers) Act scrapped and now a government-appointed committee too has suggested that the stringent provisions of the Act must go. The Act gives sweeping powers to the Army and allows it to make arrests and searches without warrant. A 147-page report of the Justice BP Jeevan Reddy Committee - a copy of which is now with CNN-IBN - clearly advises the...

04:06 PM, Oct 25, 2006

New Delhi: A Manipuri activist, Jhonson Slangbam, says the people of India have not seen the real picture of what is happening in Manipur. There is growing rage against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which is seen as a draconian act in the entire state of Manipur. The callousness of the Government towards the issue forced a young woman, Irom Sharmila, to wage a non-violent crusade against the act....

09:02 AM, Oct 22, 2006

Imphal: A strike to protest human rights abuses by security forces greeted President A P J Kalam when he visited Manipur on Monday. Shops, businesses and schools were closed in Imphal in protest against a law which gives sweeping powers to security forces to catch and kill suspected separatist rebels. "Since the democratic voices of the people of Manipur are not honoured by the Government of India, so a visit...

06:07 PM, Oct 16, 2006