The pro-Indian government militia, Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen—that targeted Pakistan-backed militants in Kashmir—was launched in 1993 by popular folk singer-turned militant Kuka Parray
The highest levels of government keep encouraging police, paramilitary and army units to eliminate "undesirables" even as the public cheers the rogue elements...
The secret killings are not the first cases of alleged extrajudicial killings in Assam. Since the 1990s, individual cases of extrajudicial killings have been...
Since there is a thin line between exercising the right to self-defence, retaliation and using excessive force, police encounters must always be looked at with...
Not only are fake ‘encounter’ killings by cops rampant across the country, they are wildly cheered by a people who have lost faith in the criminal justice...
Across states where insurgencies are rife, women are among the worst victims during security operations as justice elude the victims and errant security...
Only 87 security personnel have lost their lives in the Northeast under the Modi government as against 304 during the Congress rule. The number of civilian...
The Court of Inquiry is being analysed along with the SIT report into the incident in which 14 civilians were killed.
Activists, journos, writers and academics across Assam want the colonial-era sedition laws to be scrapped.
Addressing a 'Peace, Unity and Development' rally, PM Modi said the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act could be withdrawn from various parts of the region as...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address in Assam made the announcement, saying the situation has improved a lot in the various parts of northeast in...
This is the second time that Indian security forces apologised for a blunder they committed in a North-eastern state under the Armed Forces (Special Powers)...
Jammu and Kashmir: The three men hailing from Rajouri district of Jammu region—Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrar were killed in a remote hilly...
AFSPA: The move apparently came following the recommendations of a high-level committee constituted to examine the possibility of lifting the law after the...
AFSPA empowers security forces to conduct operations and arrest anyone without any prior warrant. They also have immunity from arrest and prosecution for any...
AFSPA empowers security forces to carry out operations and arrest anyone without any prior warrant. The forces also have immunity from arrest and prosecution...
All graves are stories and all stories have a context, a site and a landscape.
As civilian deaths continue in Northeast India, the question of repealing Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act rises again
Dr Soibam Haripriya’s poems highlight the constant subjugation of Manipuri women, and age-old issues such as UAPA, AFSPA, fear of saffronisation and cultural...
Independent journalists are always in the government’s line of fire in the Northeast state
In India, where women are both revered as the goddess and abused in the same breath, women have taken on various roles as leaders and fighters.
The repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act - AFSPA, the issue of unemployment, and political instability over the last five years are issues of...
What worrying evidence of how a very young child from a state where AFSPA was in force, viewed his destiny. Perhaps, the reasons are obvious. The killings of...
If the last five years witnessed a visible reduction in alleged ‘excesses’ committed by armed forces, the 2022 assembly polls recorded unprecedented...
The Congress party, which has promised to work towards the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) if voted to power in Manipur, slams BJP for...
