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The districts that are still affected by the crisis are Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao apart from Lakhipur in Cachar district in Barak Valley.
The districts that are still affected by the crisis are Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao apart from Lakhipur in Cachar district in Barak Valley.
The Assam government on Thursday said it has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in eight districts and one subdivision for a period of six months after reviewing the law and order situation.
The government, however, withdrew the controversial law in West Karbi Anglong district as the situation there had “significantly improved”.
The six-month extension of AFSPA will come into effect from October 1, Principal Secretary Department of Home Affairs and Politics Niraj Verma said in an order. The order dated October 15 and released on Thursday said that nine districts and one sub-district have been brought under AFSPA since April 1 as a “disturbed area” after the rest of the state’s law was withdrawn.
“A review of the law and order and security situation in Assam in recent times shows that the situation is improving significantly in West Karbi Anglong of the state… The Governor of Assam is pleased to withdraw the announcement. ‘Disturbance area’ from 01.10.2022 from West Karbi Anglong,” the order said.
The districts that are still affected by the crisis are Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao apart from Lakhipur in Cachar district in Barak Valley.
The law was introduced in Assam in November 1990 and has been extended every six months since then after the state government reviewed the situation.
AFSPA allows security forces to conduct operations anywhere and arrest anyone without a warrant. It also provides special immunity to the security forces in the event of an operation going wrong.
Civil society organizations and human rights activists have been demanding the withdrawal of the “unruly law” that has emerged across the North East alleging human rights abuses by the armed forces.
The call to scrap the act intensified after the death of 14 civilians in firing by security forces in a botched counter-insurgency operation and retaliatory violence in Nagaland’s Mon district on December 4, 2021.
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