[Assam] AFSPA

[Ram Sarangapani]

C'da

>It is the Armed Forces Special Powers Act that allows even an enlisted >man
to shoot anyone in Assam without ever having to  prove guilt or >innocence
of the victim, and with complete immunity from prosecution

If that is what the law is it does certainly sounds very undemocratic. Why
did they enact this kind of law in the first place? What were the oposition
doing? And more importantly, how much opposition(or support) did the MPs
from Assam offer?

In any case, bad laws are bad laws - they ought to go.

--Ram

On 6/25/07, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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> It is the Armed Forces Special Powers Act that allows even an enlisted man
> to shoot anyone in Assam without ever having to  prove guilt or innocence of
> the victim, and with complete immunity from prosecution . The  OPEN SEASON
> for Assamese hunting as I call it.
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> But the PM , who promised a review and had the recommendations at least a
> couple of years or more, had it sealed and was never made it public. MInd
> you now, it is the same PM, whose daughter is a fearless fighter for human
> rights with the ACLU here in the USA and has taken the Bush Admin. on,
> successfully, on behalf of  Guantanamo and Afghan detainees .
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> I don't know much about  AFSPA, but sounds evil. Is it like POTA or
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> But hopefully, as the montri is suggesting, the AFSPA is on the way out.
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> On 6/25/07,* Chan Mahanta* <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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> Good to hear from you Utpal.
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> At 3:48 PM +0100 6/25/07, utpal borpujari wrote:
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> Some good news for NE. The Administrative Reforms Commission, headed by
> Veerappa Moily, has recommended that the dreaded Armed Forces (Special
> Powers) Act, 1958 should be repealed. The gist of its recommendations made
> public a few hours ago, goes like this :
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> "AFSPA, 1958 should be repealed. To provide for an enabling legislation
> for deployment of Armed Forces of the Union in the NE States of the country,
> the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 should be amended by
> inserting a new chapter VI A as recommended by the Committee fo Review the
> AFSPA, 1958. The new chapter VI A would apply only to the NE States."
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> I think Sanjoy-da (Hazarika) would be able to tell us more about the
> Chapter VI A. As we all know, he was a member of the Justice Jeevan Reddy
> Committee (The review committee), which also is understood to have
> recommended its repeal. That report is not yet public, though.
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