#afspa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #afspa, aggregated by home.social.
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Inside The 20-Fold Surge In Assam’s Encounter Killings
Under BJP chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the state has recorded more than 200 police ‘encounters’ since 2021, with over 80 killed and 180 injured. The encounters evoke memories of the 1990s’ ‘secret killings’ of over 400 separatists and their sympathisers by unidentified killers.
#assam #EncounterKillings #BJP #crime #ULFA #AFSPA #AssamPolice #BJPStates #india
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How many Kashmiri civilian lives are equal to an ‘official secret’?
Military administration and the unequal hand of law ensure that the lives of civilians in Kashmir sell cheaper than a secret under the Official Secrets Act, writes Gursimran Kaur Bakshi.
#kashmir #AFSPA #OfficialSecretsAct #CustodyDeaths #48RashtriyaRifles #IndianArmy #HumanRights #india
https://theleaflet.in/how-many-kashmiri-civilian-lives-are-equal-to-an-official-secret/
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How the Quicksand of Counter-Insurgency Operations Has Hurt Indian Army's Core Value
The recent Rajouri-Poonch incident has offered a chance to start the process of recovery and climb out of the morass. Distinguish between criminality and a genuine mistake. Instead of incentivising criminal behaviour using the plea of troops’ morale, prosecute and punish the criminals in uniform. Make an example of them. Ghazala Wahab writes.
#kashmir #poonch #rajouri #CustodyDeaths #torture #IndianArmy #AFSPA #HumanRights #militancy #CounterInsurgency #india
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Govt’s normalcy narrative faces off against realities in J&K
How do the Union government’s claims about peace in Kashmir stand up in light of the recent outrage around civilian killings and violence across the region? Sushant Singh writes.
#kashmir #militancy #CivilianDeaths #gujjars #IndianArmy #torture #AFSPA #HumanRights #UnionGovt #article370abrogation #india
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Optics Aside, the Truth Behind Manipur's Ceasefire Agreement
The reality is that only a faction of the UNLF has participated in the peace talks – much smaller in terms of cadre capacity than the one that has decided to stay away from the latest ‘ceasefire’ with the government.
#manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #UNLF #ManipurCeasefire #BirenSingh #AFSPA #india
https://thewire.in/politics/manipurs-ceasefire-agreement-explained
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Two years on, human rights defender Khurram Parvez waiting for his human rights to be defended
As Khurram Parvez, perhaps the most prominent face of human rights work in Jammu and Kashmir, completes two years behind bars without trial today, activists call it a travesty.
#kashmir #KhurramParvez #HumanRights #activism #dissent #UAPA #DranonianLaws #JKCCS #IndianArmedForces #AFSPA #india
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AFSPA extended in four Assam districts, withdrawn from four others
The Act will now only apply to the districts of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sivasagar and Charaideo.
https://scroll.in/latest/1056877/afspa-extended-in-four-assam-districts-withdrawn-from-four-others
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AFSPA extended in Manipur for 6 months from October 1 barring 19 police stations of Imphal Valley
The disturbed area declaration under AFSPA in Manipur (except Imphal Municipality area) is in operation since 2004.
#manipur #DisturbedArea #AFSPA #ManipurViolence #ManipurHillAreas #meiteis #kukis #india
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Several hill villages in Manipur wrongly included in valley districts: ST panel
The NCST had asked the State to review an order moving forest land from Kangpokpi to Imphal East without the approval of the Hill Areas Committee.
#manipur #ManipurViolence #NCST #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #ATSUM #HAC #AFSPA #india
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Are the new criminal law bills really anti-colonial? Here’s why experts say no
Home Minister Amit Shah promised that the bills would overhaul our criminal justice system. However, the proposed reforms may be colonial in spirit too.
#IPC #CRPC #IndianEvidenceAct #sedition #DraconianLaws #UAPA #AFSPA #laws #hindutva #BJP #india
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‘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.
#AFSPA #UnionGovt #NorthEast #ArunachalPradesh #nagaland #manipur #assam #HumanRights #FakeEncounters #oting #militarisation #NarendraModi #HimantaBiswaSarma #india
https://scroll.in/article/1046309/historic-decision-by-centre-reduces-afspas-footprint-not-by-much
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Army Court Sentences Captain Involved in Amshipora Fake Encounter to Life Imprisonment
The court has held that Captain Bhoopendra Singh, of the Army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles then based in South Kashmir’s Shopian district, “exceeded powers vested under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act” during the encounter.
#kashmir #amshipora #rajouri #shopian #AFSPA #FakeEncounters #IndianArmy #62RashtriyaRifles #HumanRights #militarisation #JKpolice #india
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Justice and accountability trump 'efficacy', every time. Take down #AFSPA.
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Not enough. Army should enable independent investigation of every allegation of excess/ disappearance in #Kashmir by a group with civil society, army nominee and police, maintaining oversight, not cocooning personnel defensively under #AFSPA powers and refusing permission to prosecute.
https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/indian-army-has-zero-tolerance-for-violation-of-established-guidelines-army-chief-on-shopian-inquiry/654784 -
An example of how #AFSPA is used by rogue #IndianArmy officials to escape accountability by shrouding in secrecy extra-judicial killings in #Kashmir. A bus ride to death or disappearance
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jk-sopore-womans-18-yr-battle-ends-in-fear-and-hope-of-at-least-seeing-sons-body-6593809/ #ArmedForcesSpecialPowersAct -
I have a bad feeling that those of you who've only lived outside of NE and Kashmir will slowly start getting an introduction to another act that you've never had to even read about - AFSPA.
BJP might just end up being a great uniter (and not divider) of the nation, but via the swinging end of the lathi.
#afspa #kashmir #AssamProtests #CABProtest #Jamia