Binalakshmi Nepram working for peace and freedom in Manipur

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English - May 03, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 93.3 MB - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Binalakshmi Nepram is a humanitarian, author, and female activist for the advocacy of gender rights and women-led disarmament movements with the objective of arresting gun culture and bringing about peace for her home state of Manipur in particular and northeast India in general. For her contributions in this field to Manipur and northeast India she is known by the epithet "The Face & Voice of North East". Nepram has established many institutions such as the Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) in 2004, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (MWGSN), Manipur, and Secretary General Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI). On the disarmament issue she opines, "You cannot shoot an unarmed person. This goes for both the State and non State actors... nonviolence will win at the end." Forbes named Nepram as one of its "24 Young Minds to Watch out for in 2015", and the Action on Armed Violence of London listed her among the top 100 influential people in the world actively pursuing a reduction in armed violence.

LYRICS:

When your own governments against you

War is all you've ever known

Corruption undermines everything

Votes are bought and sold

Armed gunmen drive through the streets

AFSPA says they do that you please

Your own military, is adversarial

Who do you turn to for peace?

There's nothing to say

Only to sing

Hing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare

Hingminashi Eikhoi

Hingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam

Hingminashi Eikhoi

Hingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare

Hingminashi Eikhoi

No one sheds tears for Manipur

Or the forgotten North East of India

Hidden away, people shot every day

Quietly one by one

With bullets fired from Western-built guns

Who profits from peace?

Keep going no one will know

When will the winds of change blow?

There's nothing to say

Only to sing

Hing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare

Hingminashi Eikhoi

Hingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam

Hingminashi Eikhoi

Hingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare

Hingminashi Eikhoi

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