Assam, has been declared “disturbed” under the AFSPA
Assam, has been declared “disturbed” under the AFSPA with
effect from August 3 till August 31. Areas near Meghalaya’s border areas
adjoining Assam and three districts in Arunachal Pradesh have also been declared
as “disturbed” under the AFSPA for two more months with effect from August 3.
It has also declared as
“disturbed” under the AFSPA three districts of Arunachal Pradesh -- Tirap,
Changlang and Longding - and areas falling within the jurisdiction of 14 police
stations in nine other districts of the state with effect from August 4 to
September 30.
The 14 police stations fall
under the districts of Papumpare, West Siang, East Siang, Lower Dibang Valley,
East Kameng, West Kameng, Namsai, Lohit district, Lower Subansiri in Arunachal
Pradesh.
The
violence were perpetrated in Assam by insurgent groups like ULFA, NDFB and
others.AFSPA has been continuing in Assam since November 1990.
The AFSPA has been in force
in the three Arunachal Pradesh districts of Tirap, Changlang and Longding since
January, 2016.
Meghalaya
too has been witnessing violence by ULFA, NDFB militants in the recent past.
What is AFSPA?
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts (AFSPA),
are Acts of the Parliament of India that grant special
powers to the Indian Armed Forces in what each act terms
"disturbed areas". According to The Disturbed Areas (Special
Courts) Act, 1976 once declared ‘disturbed’, the area has to maintain status
quo for a minimum of 3 months.
One such Act passed on September 11, 1958 was applicable to the
Naga Hills, then part of Assam.
In the following decades it spread, one by one,
to the other Seven Sister States in India's northeast. Another
one passed in 1983 and applicable to Punjab and Chandigarh was
withdrawn in 1997, roughly 14 years after it came to force. An Act passed
in 1990 was applied to Jammu and Kashmir and has been in force since.
The Acts have
received criticism from several sections for alleged concerns about human
rights violations in the regions of its enforcement alleged to have happened.
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