(LA Times) In India, love tests world’s longest hunger strike
Irom Sharmila's mother has a simple dream: sitting down to a meal with her daughter.
Irom hasn't willingly ingested food or water for 11 years, in protest of a law granting legal immunity to the armed forces for human rights abuses. As the anniversary of her hunger strike nears, her mother imagines what might be.
"I'm still waiting for her to come home," said Shakhi Devi, 78, holding an album of her daughter's photos. She rarely visits the 39-year-old, the world's longest-serving hunger striker, because it's too painful.
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Posted November 4, 2011 at 7:15 am
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