Burning bright : Irom Sharmila and the struggle for peace in Manipur (Record no. 61155)

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ISBN 9780143103691
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 327.172092
Item number DEE/b
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Personal name Deepti Priya Mehrotra
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Burning bright : Irom Sharmila and the struggle for peace in Manipur
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Place of publication New Delhi
Name of publisher Penguin
Year of publication 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 219p., [8] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill. (chiefly col.) ;
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Irom Sharmila has been on a fast unto death for eight years, demanding a repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur. Ten innocent people were mowed down by security forces in Malom, a village near Imphal, in November 2000. The perpetrators were not punished, protected under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act which empowers military and para-military personnel to arrest, shoot, even kill, anyone on the grounds of mere suspicion. In response to this tragedy—one among many such atrocities—Irom Sharmila, a young Manipuri, began an indefinite hunger strike. The government arrested her and force-fed her through nasal tubes. She has been released and re-arrested innumerable times since then, but has stood by her demand, steadfastly refusing to eat until the Act is repealed. Burning Bright is a hard-hitting account of a people caught between the crossfire of militants and security forces; of a once- sovereign kingdom whose culture has been brutally violated; of the many voices of dissent— from underground groups to the Meira Paibis, a women’s movement opposed to all forms of violence whether by the state or insurgents and a moving portrait of ‘the Iron Lady of Manipur’.
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Topical Term Pacifists
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Topical Term Human rights workers
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Topical Term Peace-building
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Topical Term Abuse of administrative power
-- India--Manipur
-- Human rights workers
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LC control number 2009310316
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 28/04/2021 275.00 327.172092 DEE/B 52729 BK

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