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Ujanmaidan – where 14 tribal women were raped in 1988 Submitted by  admin4  on 10 January 2011 - 5:05pm Articles   Indian Muslim   Women By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net, ‘The Assam Rifles raided the Ujanmaidan village of Khoyai sub-division situated in West Tripura in 1988 to search for the militants. During this operation 14 tribal women were raped.’ A joint statement dated 17th Jan. 2005 of women’s groups against Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) stated that the Northeast India’s most widely known incidents of excesses are the horror of army torture and violence against the villagers of Oinam (Manipur) in 1987; the gang rape of the women of Ujanmaidan (Tripura) by security forces in 1988; the terror wreaked by the army in Assam during Operation Rhino in 1991; the shelling of the town of Ukhrul (Manipur) with mortars in May 1994; and December 1994 on Mokokchung (Nagaland), indiscriminate firing on civilians by armed forces personnel when a tyre of their own jeep
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Narratives of D-voters in Assam Submitted by  admin4  on 3 January 2011 - 4:15pm Indian Muslim By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: Anath Bandhu Biswas, son of Late Kishori Mohan Biswas and a resident of village Borpayek II, Nellie, Assam, served the Home Ministry as CRPF jawan from 1975 to 1997. He took voluntary retirement to be with his family. ‘I was a government employee but now a Doubtful voter [or D-voter] since 1996. I am originally from Tripura. In 1983, during the Nellie massacre, I was posted here in Nellie. I liked the place and got married here and started living here. I have cast vote before 1996. I have one son and one daughter and they are not D-voters,’ says 52-year-old Anath Biswas. His wife, Arati Biswas is also a D-voter. She said: ‘My father Narayan Mondol was a carpenter. I was born and brought up here and I don’t know why I am a D-voter’. Many D-Voters or doubtful voters informed that in Assam, the voter list enumerated D-Voters in 1996. D-voters are
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2010: A year of panic and alarm for women in North East India Submitted by  admin4  on 2 January 2011 - 4:34pm Articles   Indian Muslim   Women By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net, The world is welcoming the year 2011, but the women of North-east India are just not able to do the same. How can they, when they face brutal rapes and murders daily? They remember 2010 with nothing but panic and alarm. The several instances of brutalities against women reported are not only alarming but also signify that the safety of women is turning from bad to worse and to worst. No state in the north-east has come out unmarred by serious incidents of violence against women. So, is 2011 offering them anything different or at least a vague idea of safety and security? 2010 was indeed a terrifying year for the women in Churachandpur in Manipur. Within a span of two months, several incidents took place where women were sexually assaulted and then brutally murdered. On November 25, 2010, a lady cashier w