The AFSPAhas a colonial past. It was first introduced by the British as an ordinance in 1942 as a measure to suppress the Quit India Movement. The ordinance was later promulgated as the AFSPA Act, 1958 to tackle the growing violence and insurgency in undivided Assam post-independence.� Lat...
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 has been in place in the Jammu and Kashmir and certain regions in the North East for decades. The Act has been misused from time to time, resulting in harming civilians' lives. The controversy surrounding the Act generally viewed as draconian law has...
Armed Forces Special Power Act 1958 (AFSPA) is one such law in India which violates women rights intentionally or unintentionally. Civil rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu has been on a fast for the past 14 years against this Act. On the one hand state (Police Forces) targets women and ...
Henceforth, in the name of counter-insurgency, rapid militarization's are gaining upper hand which is followed by implementation of anti-democratic laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, (AFSPA), 1958. The implementation of such laws in the region has created more problems that ...
This chapter looks at the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 (AFSPA) in Manipur as a concrete context of the politics of torture and pain. The contentious agencies at play at various levels interpret torture in their respective ways, either in support of AFPSA, or against it,...
AbstractArmed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), a legislation of the Government of India promulgated in the 'disturbed areas' of India's North-East since 1958 and in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) since the 1990s merits spatial and contextual analysis. This is because in these regions where AFSPA...
Henceforth, in the name of counter-insurgency, rapid militarization's are gaining upper hand which is followed by implementation of anti-democratic laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, (AFSPA), 1958. The implementation of such laws in the region has created more problems that ...
In this paper, my major concern is with the arbitrary law-enforcement by the state in the name of promoting security, but in the process sacrificing the basic human rights of the people. The case study, which I will be using, is that of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958), a ...
In Manipur and India's other northeastern states, human rights violations are being perpetrated by army, security personnel, and police forces during counterinsurgency operations since the Armed Forces Special Powers Act was enacted and enforced in 1958. The issue has become widely known since the ...