‘Historic’ decision by Centre reduces AFSPA’s footprint? Not by much
A closer look at the order reveals the area in the North East under the contested law has not shrunk significantly. In Arunachal, it has actually gone up.
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AFSPA keeps apart ideas of law and justice; a separation that makes the Nagas 'killable', as in Oting. The law incorporates them into the Indian nation-state as rights-deprived subjects — and, in the process, reveals the dark side of Indian democracy. On the morning of 4 December, the director-general of the Assam Rifles inaugurated the fourth day of Nagaland’s annual Hornbill festival. The Naga organisers rolled out the red carpet and honoured him with a traditional embroidered shawl. The invitation had gone out to him as part of an attempt by the current generation of Nagas to reconcile with the very paramilitary unit engaged, until a ceasefire in 1997, in bloodshot ‘operations’ to suppress the Naga demand for the right to self-determination.
Nagaland Congress PCC President @[email protected] along with other Congress members visited #Oting in Mon, to condole with the bereaved families.
Congress is active on the ground & with the people, in every part of the country.
What about Mamata, Kejriwal and Mo-Sha?
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