Drugs, Guns And Four Stories From The Northeast

September 25, 2020

Binalakshmi Nepram, published a piece in “Outlook” describing aspects of the 1980s and 1990s in Northeast India: increasing military presence and the imposition of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the rise in armed insurgencies, the soaring narcotics trafficking and drug abuse, and the major human rights violations, and strong women’s non-violence movement that rose during this time.

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Bina Nepram is the founder-director of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and the Control Arms Foundation of India and the co-founder of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace