{"id":12960,"date":"2011-08-30T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2011-08-30T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:13:08","slug":"one-day-my-fight-will-also-be-recognised-irom-sharmila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/one-day-my-fight-will-also-be-recognised-irom-sharmila","title":{"rendered":"One day, my fight will also be recognised: Irom Sharmila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Irom-Chanu-Sharmila2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12961\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/one-day-my-fight-will-also-be-recognised-irom-sharmila\/irom-chanu-sharmila-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Irom-Chanu-Sharmila2.jpg?fit=240%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Irom Chanu Sharmila\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Irom-Chanu-Sharmila2.jpg?fit=240%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12961\" title=\"Irom Chanu Sharmila\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Irom-Chanu-Sharmila2.jpg?resize=240%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Irom-Chanu-Sharmila2.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Irom-Chanu-Sharmila2.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years, on Tuesday said a day would come when her fight against rights violations by security forces would be acknowledged by New Delhi like the way parliament had recognised Anna Hazare&#8217;s campaign against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The central government recognised Anna Hazare as a true Indian citizen and hence accepted his demands. I am sure one day the government would recognise me and my fight,&#8221; Sharmila told journalists outside a local court where she was being presented for a routine hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to urge Anna to visit Manipur and see for himself what is happening here,&#8221; Sharmila said as she was shoved inside a police van from the court premises.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed as the Iron Lady of Manipur Sharmila began her fast Nov 2, 2000<\/p>\n<p>Now around 40, she was arrested shortly after beginning her protest &#8212; on charges of attempted suicide. She was sent to a prison hospital where she began a daily routine of being force-fed via a nasal drip.<\/p>\n<p>Sharmila is frequently set free by local courts, but once outside, she resumes her hunger-strike and is rearrested.<\/p>\n<p>She is campaigning for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that enables security forces to shoot on sight and arrest anybody without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Civil rights campaigners in Manipur are upset with the mainstream media for the disparity in coverage by comparing Anna Hazare&#8217;s anti-graft fast and ignoring the over decade-long hunger strike by Irom Chanu Sharmila.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a general sense of feeling that we, the people of the northeast, have always been neglected, discriminated, and looked down upon by the rest of India, including the mainstream media. See how Anna&#8217;s fast has hogged media headlines and see our very own Irom fasting for nearly 11 years,&#8221; Singhajit Singh, a civil rights campaigner and Sharmila&#8217;s elder brother, said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, former union home secretary G.K. Pillai said that Sharmila must &#8220;reach out to people across the country&#8221; like Hazare to make her cause known.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a question of how you reach out to people. AFSPA is applicable only in Jammu and Kashmir and in the northeastern states. Corruption is pricking people everywhere and that&#8217;s why Anna Hazare had a high moral ground,&#8221; Pillai said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She (Sharmila) has to reach out to the people across the country. She has to say why she is on fast,&#8221; said Pillai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years, on Tuesday said a day would come when her fight against rights violations by security forces would be acknowledged by New Delhi like the way parliament had recognised Anna Hazare&#8217;s campaign against corruption. &#8220;The central government recognised Anna Hazare as a true Indian citizen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4844,2616,5006],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-afspa","tag-armed-forces-special-powers-act","tag-irom-sharmila"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One day, my fight will also be recognised: Irom Sharmila<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years, on Tuesday said a day\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/one-day-my-fight-will-also-be-recognised-irom-sharmila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One day, my fight will also be recognised: Irom Sharmila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years, on Tuesday said a day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/one-day-my-fight-will-also-be-recognised-irom-sharmila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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