The controversial law AFSPA, which gives broad powers to security forces, has been extended for another six months in Nagaland, and the country’s military is investigating the horribly wrong ambush on December 4.
The Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act or AFSPA gives the army tremendous powers to move freely in any place declared as a “disturbed area”; without the approval of the center, no military personnel in the area where AFSPA is in effect can be prosecuted.
Rights groups in Nagaland and even the state government have been asking the center to withdraw AFSPA.
After a terrible mistake in the army’s Para special forces ambush in Nagaland on December 4, the anti-AFSPA voices have recently become fierce, when they killed 6 civilians who had returned from work in the mine at night. A soldier was killed in a subsequent attack by villagers, who angrily surrounded their jaws. In the subsequent mass protests, eight more civilians were shot dead.
On December 20th, the Nagaland State Council unanimously decided to abolish AFSPA from the northeast, especially the state. A five-member committee was established under the leadership of senior bureaucrat Vivić Joshi to review the possibility of AFSPA’s withdrawal from Nagaland. In the ambush on December 4.
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