Positions

Positions

1. Nobel Committee failed to give it to Mahatma Gandhi, Irom Sharmila is the best candidate since then for the most non-violent form of protest
2. 10 years during which she has been force-fed nutrients through a tube. But nobody's listening…
3. The police arrest her every year and charge her with the crime of attempting suicide, for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for one year.
4. Each year when she completes her solitary incarceration, she is released and immediately re-arrested.
5. Her act of political resistance through non-violent self-suffering is unparalleled anywhere in the world.