Irom Sharmila: India activist to end 16-year hunger strike video

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37017707

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A political activist who has been on a hunger strike for 16 years in north-east India is to end her fast.

Irom Sharmila has been campaigning against a law that provides the Indian army sweeping powers to tackle insurgency in her home state, Manipur.

 

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Ms Chanu has been force-fed through a tube in her nose for more than a decade. She started her fast 16 years ago after 10 civilians were killed by Indian soldiers in Manipur , 

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She has spent most of the last 16 years in judicial custody in a hospital in Manipur's capital, Imphal, where she was force-fed a cocktail of medicines and baby formula.

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Ms Chanu was released in August 2014 after the court rejected the charge that she was "attempting to commit suicide". But she was re-arrested two days later after she refused to end her protest.

 

 

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A memorial has been built at the site in Manipur where the 10 civilians were killed by Indian soldiers. The state has a population of about 2.5 million people and a huge force of army, paramilitary and state police are deployed there to fight insurgent groups

 

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Indian activist Irom Sharmila, center, addresses the press on August 9, 2016, after a court appearance during which she was granted bail on the condition that she would end her 16 year fast.

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A Manipuri human rights activist shouts against the decision of Irom Sharmila to break her fast north-eastern India on August 9, 2016.