Ashraf Javed LAHORE Born in 1972, Irom Sharmila is one of the leading sacrificing spirits in the world as a human rights activist, journalist and poetess, who decided to write a new history with her blood against Indian atrocities. She had launched a protest movement against Indian Black Laws, (Armed Forces Special Power Act) following troops of 8-Assam Rifles gunned down at least 10 innocent people while they had been waiting for the transport near a bus stop on November 2, 2000. As an eyewitness, she was deeply moved watching the gory incident and decided there and then to devote her life to wage a struggle against 'AFSPA imposed in Manipur that gives the Indian soldiers a licence to kill without facing any prosecution. According to reports in the 'Times of India, some 500 people are killed every year due to this black law but the actual figures of casualty toll is manifold high. When she began her fast onto death, two other women also accompanied her but Sharmila was later left alone in her lonely war. At present she is being fed through the nose to keep her alive. Her hunger strike has entered the 11th year but there seems no positive response from all those who are at the helms of affairs in India. Her condition is deteriorating day by day and the doctors in Jawaharlal Nehru hospital at Imphal have now lost the hope of her survival, if no intervention from the international community to play its role to repeal the said black law succeeds. On October 23, she had made her last wish for a memorial near her house at village Malom. As the call for scraping the AFSPA gained momentum, Indian security forces resorted to alleged custodial rape and murder of 32-year-old Thangjam Manorama Devi in 2004. Her death again set the state in tail spin when thousands of human right activists thronged the streets and there was a chain of protest rallies, public strikes, self-emollition by a young person and unprecedented enthusiastic fervour to visit Sharmila to express their solidarity with her mission. There may be no worst tradition, the world has ever witnessed than the stigma Indian government inscribed on their forehead when nearly a dozen elderly women of Manipur staged a naked demonstration in the streets to shake the world conscience. The photographs of those women appeared in the weekly 'Outlook but such an agonizing action even failed to shake the Indian government. The people of Manipur, who claim that they are not Indian by origin, ethnicity, religion, culture and historic past, had never been under any foreign rule during the last two thousand years since 16 A.D. Their king was trapped by the Indian through a chain of intrigues by the Indian Congress during 1947 partition. Manipur is one of the Indian states where violent and active insurgency movement spearheaded by almost two dozen freedom fighters groups is posing big challenge to the 250,000 Indian Security and Paramilitary troops deployed in Manipur to crush this upsurge but with no or very little success. The human rights violation graph is touching all time high as India is facing similar music in other six neighbouring states. Manipur and all the other states hold out only one demand that is independence and separation from India. While the world is moving towards the policy of rapprochement, co-existence, New Delhis war mongering machinery is still minting currency to amass as much ammunition and venom of hatred as it could. That is why, despite its media firm control or black-outs, the news what goes on in the North-Eastern India sometime erupts like a volcano. Sharmila, fasting on death, has turned her to be a symbol of courage, a model of indomitable spirit, an icon of sacrifice and devotion to the cause of humanity. Her fight has exposed the real credentials of the Indian government to the world, how callous, inhuman, unjust, cruel and irrational it is on the surface of this universe. It is not Kashmir burning with cries of millions of people but also the seven states of Northeast too, which are facing similar music. But, without paying any attention to the calls of human conscience or the appeals of the global community, India continues to claim herself 'Incredible India with largest democracy in the world.