AFSPA: Soldiers clear of Implications , but is everyone else?

 For those who advocate AFSPA with out reading it or about it, here is what you need to read  :

Footnotes

1. ^ “THE ARMED FORCES (SPECIAL POWERS) ACT, 1958”
2. ^ ^{a b} “(PDF) The Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act, 1990” Indian Ministry of Law and Justice Published by the Authority of New Delhi
3. ^ ^{a b} Harinder Singh (July 6, 2010). "AFSPA: A Soldier’s Perspective". Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. 
4. ^ http://www.hindu.com/nic/afa/afa-part-ii.pdf
5. ^ Anil Kamboj (October 2004). "Manipur and Armed Forces (Special Power) Act 1958". Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. 
6. ^ ""Naga People's Movement of Human Rights vs. Union of India,1998"". 
7. ^ ""Humane garb for 'black law'"". December 3, 2006. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061203/asp/frontpage/story_7085101.asp. 
8. ^ ^{a b} IDSA strategic analysis: Armed Forces Special Powers Act
9. ^ "MANIPUR ON FIRE". Frontline. September 2004. http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2118/stories/20040910007400400.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-05. 
10. ^ "United Nations asks Indian govt to repeal AFSPA". IRNA. March 23, 2009. http://www5.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=407469&IdLanguage=3. Retrieved 2009-03-24. 
11. ^ “Crisis in Kashmir” Council on Foreign Relations
12. ^ India: Repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act; 50th Anniversary of Law Allowing Shoot-to-Kill, Other Serious Abuses. Human Rights Watch
13. ^ AFSPA South Asian HRDC
14. ^ ^{a b} Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, 'Manipur and Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958' "the alleged rape and killing of Manjab Manorama", "security forces have destroyed homes", "arrests without warrants", "widespread violations of humane rights", "The cases of Naga boys of Oinam village being tortured before their mothers by Assam rifles Jawans in July 1987; the killing of Amine Devi and her child of Bishnupur district on April 5, 1996 by a CRPF party; the abduction, torture and killing of 15-year-old Sanamacha of Angtha village by an Assam Rifles party on 12th February 1998; the shooting dead of 10 civilians by an Assam Rifles party in November 2000 are some of the glaring examples that are still fresh in the mind of Manipuris."
15. ^ "Blood Tide Rising". TIME Magazine. January 18, 1993. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977469,00.html. 
16. ^ India
17. ^ BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Kashmir's extra-judicial killings
18. ^ Behind the Kashmir Conflict - Abuses in the Kashmir Valley
19. ^ India: Repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
20. ^ Behind the Kashmir Conflict: Undermining the Judiciary (Human Rights Watch Report: July 1999)
21. ^ Nambath, Suresh (March 21, 2011). "‘Manipur more a colony of India'". The Hindu (Chennai, India). http://www.thehindu.com/news/the-india-cables/article1556697.ece. 
22. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/the-india-cables/the-cables/article1556742.ece/ref>
23. ^ Burke, Jason (December 16, 2010). "WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/16/wikileaks-cables-indian-torture-kashmir?INTCMP=SRCH. 

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Wikisource has original text related to this article: Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act

• Coverage on website of South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
• "Armed Forces Act to go from Imphal" - rediff.com article dated August 12, 2004
• Interview with Arundhati Roy on Manipur and the AFSPA, on Democracy Now

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