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UN expert: India should repeal law that grants troops vast powers in troubled …
Washington Post The special powers law has been in force in different parts of the country since 1958 and is currently enforced in Indian-controlled Kashmir and in the states of Manipur and Nagaland in the northeast, all battling separatist movements. |
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