Binalakshmi Nepram working for peace and freedom in Manipur
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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.
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\\nWhen your own governments against you
\\nWar is all you\'ve ever known
\\nCorruption undermines everything
\\nVotes are bought and sold
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\\nArmed gunmen drive through the streets
\\nAFSPA says they do that you please
\\nYour own military, is adversarial
\\nWho do you turn to for peace?
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\\nThere\'s nothing to say
\\nOnly to sing
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\\nHing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
\\nHingminashi Eikhoi
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\\nHingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam
\\nHingminashi Eikhoi
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\\nHingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
\\nHingminashi Eikhoi
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\\nNo one sheds tears for Manipur
\\nOr the forgotten North East of India
\\nHidden away, people shot every day
\\nQuietly one by one
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\\nWith bullets fired from Western-built guns
\\nWho profits from peace?
\\nKeep going no one will know
\\nWhen will the winds of change blow?
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\\nThere\'s nothing to say
\\nOnly to sing
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\\nHing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
\\nHingminashi Eikhoi
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\\nHingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam
\\nHingminashi Eikhoi
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\\nHingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
\\nHingminashi Eikhoi