Irom Chanu Sharmila broke her hunger strike after 16 years

Irom Chanu Sharmila

Irom Chanu Sharmila Source: Getty

Irom Chanu Sharmila is a civil rights activists, political actvist, and poet from the Indian state of Monipur. She began a hunger strike on November 2000 which ended after 16 years on 9 August 2016.



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