An Indian woman who has spent nearly 12 years fasting to protest against a law that gives special powers to the armed forces has been featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Irom Sharmila Chanu, 40, has been on a hunger strike since 2 November 2000 in the north-eastern state of Manipur.
She has been force-fed through a pipe in her nose since November 2000.
Ripley's site features a cartoon on the activist and describes her as "the iron lady of Manipur". Full story...
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FYI The BBC don't bother that much with research, Onil K is the right hand man of Bubbles L, nephew of the DG Imphal Police Commandoes. JPF is termed an NGO but it is a front for the police commandoes having escaped the need to audit accounts. It is currently managed by R K Anand who turned coat and now represents the Ibobi Singh regime (SPF party) which continues to maintain that the AFSPA is needed and will not be further lifted on their watch. It was lifted in 2004 to grant the police commandoes absolute power. You may delete this. It is easy to check pity Aunty Beeb couldn't be bothered. As for Ripley's typical of the nonsense done by the SS groups in Manipur. There are two methods that would get AF(SP)A lifted both shunned by Onil and Bubbles and their cronies. First to use the elections. If the local MLA voted to denotify disturbed area status then effectively AF(SP)A is lifted. This is the method approved by both the SC and the Centre. The second would be direct presidential rule have Hazare and his Team Anna come to Manipur rid it of corruption which in effect would mean a diaspora of all the thieves an end to sinecure government jobs and bribery, development not more corruption but Manipuris don't want change.
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