The predicament of justice: fifty years of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in India

Kikon, Dolly

doi:10.1080/09584930903108937

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“…Because of the heavy presence of the Indian Army and other para military forces like the Assam Rifles, the Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police Force, human rights violations is an everyday occurrence in the area. 'The AFSPA is an unconstitutional law, but the dubious part of this Act is the legal protection it grants to perpetrators, thereby liberating their conscience in the name of duty and service to the nation' [43]. Now that we have looked at some of the background of these conflicts in India, let us deal with some of the common themes, which apply to both.…”

Section: The Indian Northeast: Background To the Conflictmentioning

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Comparing China and India’s Disputed Borderland Regions: Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir, and the Indian Northeast

Mukherjee

2015

East Asia

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INTRODUCTION:differences in the nature of the political systems of the two countries, (one being democratic and the other being a predominantly authoritarian state) the state policies directed towards these peripheral regions and the nature of these conflicts have been strikingly similar.Methodologically, the paper follows a bottom-up approach and emphasises on the voices of the ordinary people. The arguments put forward by the people are often not in keeping with the stories, and arguments put forward by the political elite. In depth interviews were carried out to further the arguments in the paper. The bottom-up approach was carried out by doing semistructured or non-directive interviews with people from these conflict zones. 'The least structured form of interviewing is the non-structured or non-directive interview. Here no pre-specified set of questions is employed, nor are the questions asked in a specified order' [1]. There is no schedule. 'With little or no direction from the interviewer, respondents are encouraged to relate their experiences, to describe whatever events seem significant to them, to provide their own definitions of their situations, and to reveal their opinions and attitudes as they see fit. The interviewer has a great deal of freedom to probe various areas and to raise specific queries during the course of the interview'[1]. This flexibility and the spontaneity with which the interviewees respond are most certainly some of the strengths of this method. Now let us first start with India, and then in the second half of the paper we will be looking at China.

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Section: The Indian Northeast: Background To the Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing China and India’s Disputed Borderland Regions: Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir, and the Indian Northeast

Mukherjee

2015

East Asia

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“…He stamped my passport and moved on to the next person in the line. The official's assumptions reflected popular perceptions of the Northeast, rooted in colonial discourses where India and the Northeast were represented as binary opposites; the Northeastern tribes positioned as the "Mongolian other" of Aryan India (Bora, 2010;Kikon, 2009).…”

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The Long Way Home

Dutta

2014

Qualitative Inquiry

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The salience of home often comes into being in the wake of its loss. The loss of home for me was engendered by a physical departure from the place of my birth as well as the uncertainty of return posed by escalation of ethnic violence in the region. That loss became the impetus for my ethnographic journey engaging with issues of identity, belonging, conflict, and resistance in my home community—the Garo Hills region of Northeast India. In this article, I draw from my autoethnographic journeys to offer a more nuanced and discursively complex understanding of ethnic antagonisms in Northeast India. Challenging dominant security-driven perspectives, my article is foregrounded in the everyday experiences of ordinary citizens in the Northeastern borderlands. Dissolving strict boundaries between ethnography, oral history, testimonials, and storytelling, I open up discursive spaces to explore alternative framing of home and belonging for people located in Northeastern India.

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“…This is mainly because the region is based on diverse identities, illegal migration from the border areas and multiple forms of poverty, which have often manifested themselves in brutal and violent ways (Baruah, 1999;Bhattacharyya, 2018;Kikon, 2009;McDuie-Ra, 2009a,b). The reasons for the particular conflicts are wide-ranging traversing from separatist movements, to intercommunity, communal and inter-ethnic conflicts (Baruah, 1999;Bhattacharyya, 2018;Kikon, 2009;McDuie-Ra, 2009a, b). Violent and vociferous demands by various ethnic groups for independence and new states in the Northeast have been taking place since independence.…”

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“…Similarly, the other states of the North East -Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura have also been witnessing the large-scale of conflicts because a large number of ethnic communities in these states are engaged in struggle either for the separate state or special status within India Union. The violent nature of these conflicts has affected not only the territorial and political sovereignty of the Indian state but also the life of the people living in this region (Baruah, 1999;Bhattacharyya, 2018;Bhattacharyya, 2019;Kikon, 2009;McDuie-Ra, 2009a, b).…”

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The Journey of Women from Victim to Peace-Maker: Women, Insurgency and Northeast India

2018

SACI

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The sufferings of women in any insurgency movement have been the focus of many women's rights and human rights groups in present times. Studies have demonstrated that women have to suffer pain as mothers, sisters, daughters, caregivers and victims during conflict situation which has till date brought great destruction and despair among them. In the insurgency movements, women continue to struggle as a victim, as combatants, as peace-makers. However, despite being the worst victim, women also play the role of protector of women's rights and human rights. There are many women's organisations in Northeast India like Meira Paibi, Naga Mother's Association, Bodo Women's Justice Forum, which are playing an active role as peace activists. Under this background, the present paper will focus on the role of women's organisations during different situations of insurgency movements in Northeast India. The paper will put special focus on the role of the two women's organisations that is All Bodo Women's Welfare Federation (ABWWF), Bodo Women's Justice Forum (BWJF) in BTC (Bodoland Territorial Council Region) of Assam. BTC is one of the most conflict-affected regions in Assam. Several conflicts have occurred within the region such as ethnic conflicts, fratricidal conflicts, the movement for autonomy and others. The paper will explore the role of these organisations towards protecting the rights of women as well as in bringing peace in the region.

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The predicament of justice: fifty years of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in India

Cited by 41 publications

References 8 publications

Comparing China and India’s Disputed Borderland Regions: Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir, and the Indian Northeast

Comparing China and India’s Disputed Borderland Regions: Xinjiang, Tibet, Kashmir, and the Indian Northeast

The Long Way Home

The Journey of Women from Victim to Peace-Maker: Women, Insurgency and Northeast India

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