Who rules India: Elected representatives or the army?” The Government cannot even make the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) more human because the army does not want it diluted, leave alone repealed. Mr P. Chidambaram said “We can’t move forward because there is no consensus. The present and former Army Chiefs have taken a strong position that the Act should not be amended (and) do not want the government notification... How does the government … make the AFSPA a more humanitarian law?” The second question it raises is “Why does the army oppose even dilution of the Act to make it more human?” The Justice Verma Commission has said in unequivocal terms that security persons who rape women should be judged under the same act that applies to the civilians. But the army is opposing even this change. What is their rationale for thinking that security persons who rape innocent women should enjoy impunity in the name of national security? For whose security was the law enacted, for that of the country or of the criminals in uniform? Whenever some change is suggested in the Act the army seems to oppose it and the civilian government buckles under its pressure. thehindu/opinion/op-ed/afspa-who-rules-india/article4407851.ece -------------------- For those hypocrites who say a rape is a rape and i am a feminist because i protest for Nirbhaya and Womens right to wear skirts in Delhi and am for democracy and then go ahead and take a stand for the army as moral GODs and adapt a criminal silence on rapes by the army and its absolute authority that cannot be challenged except in the armys own courts that dismisses rapes of entire villages and massacres as conspiracy.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:45:12 +0000
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