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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".〔Krishna Pokharel for the Wall Street Journal. Jan 7, 2015. (Indian Activist Presses 14-Year Hunger Strike to Protest Abuses; Court Postpones Decision Whether Irom Sharmila Chanu Should Be Charged Again )〕 One such act was passed on 11 September 1958 and applied to the Seven Sister States in India's northeast.〔("THE ARMED FORCES (SPECIAL POWERS) ACT, 1858" )〕 Another passed in 1983 and applied to Punjab and Chandigarh and was withdrawn in 1997, roughly 14 years after it came to force.〔 & from Tripura in 2015Another such act was passed in 1990 and applied to Jammu and Kashmir.〔 The Acts have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. Politicians like P. Chidambaram and Saifuddin Soz of Congress have advocated revocation AFSPA whilst Amarinder Singh is against their revocation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=After P Chidambaram, Congress leader Saifuddin Soz calls for revocation of AFSPA in Jammu-Kashmir )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Congress divided over AFSPA, Amarinder Singh against repealing of the Act )〕 Irom Chanu Sharmila who is also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" is a civil rights activist, who has been in a hunger strike for nearly 15 years. Her primary demand to the Indian government has been the repeal of the AFSPA. ==History== The Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance of 1942 was promulgated by the British on 15 August 1942 to suppress the Quit India Movement. Modeled on these lines, four ordinances—the Bengal Disturbed Areas (Special Powers of Armed Forces) Ordinance; the Assam Disturbed Areas (Special Powers of Armed Forces)Ordinance; the East Bengal Disturbed Areas (Special Powers of Armed Forces) Ordinance; the United provinces Disturbed Areas(Special Powers of Armed Forces) Ordinance were invoked by the central government to deal with the internal security situation in the country in 1947 which arouse out of Partition of India. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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