Government Inaction on Irom Sharmila's Fast Is An Affront To Democracy |
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By Concerned Citizens 20 July, 2012 An Open Letter to Chief Justice of India To, Chief Justice of India Kind Attn: Sh. S. H. Kapadia Dear Sir, We are writing this letter to you with my faith in judiciary and deep pain in my heart. The pain is there because as a citizen of this democracy, we would like to have evry right to be heard and to raise our voice. By this public letter, we want to raise our voice before you (before the highest institution of law in my country) as the issue about which we are requesting, is associated with the interest of public by and large and thus your intervention will be helpful in protection of law as well as in establishing and maintaining our faith in constitution and its values. We are talking about Irom Sharmila, a lady who is domicile of Manipur and who is observing a hunger protest since last 11 years (since the year 2000). The objective is to register the grievance against human rights violations in Manipur and the demand is to repeal the AFSPA (Armed forces special power act). The lady has every right to register and to protest as she is associated with the people of Manipur who faced the ill effects of this draconian law. However, through this letter, we would like to make it clear that like in every other such protests, government always try to come with solution including visits, negotiation, reviews, public debates and hearings, referandum etc; however in this case/demand, no such steps have been taken from the side of government yet. It has also to be noted that some human rights activists have submitted petitions before NHRC (National Human Rights Commission) , but NHRC disposed off almost all such petitions and replies that the matter is political. We, the citizens of India, who understand the issue, may be divided in two parts , one is the indians who support AFSPA, another is the indians who oppose AFSPA. But still, both of these categories supports Irom Sharmila on democratic and humanitarian grounds and criticize government/ courts/ NHRC because no concrete steps have been taken by such responsible agencies/instituions. I believe that the ongoing fast of Irom Sharmila is the symbol of her faith in democratic values and non violence. The fact that the Government has not taken any positive steps also hurts us and our faith in democracy. We would like to bring to your kind attention these facts:
The issue has not only appealed to the general public but has become known on an international scale as well. I request you
We hope that our faith in this institution will be maintained by the actions of the institution in favour of protection of human rights in this case. An appeal by: Ravi Nitesh, Devika Mittal, Aditya Prakash, Pankaj Pathak Mission Bhartiyam New Delhi E-mail: missionbhartiyam@gmail.com
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