During all these years, she has been force fed through her nose the entire time — the Ryles tube used to feed her has become a symbol of Manipur’s fight against AFSPA. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called the world’s longest hunger striker. On International Women’s Day, 2014 she was voted the top woman icon of India by MSN Poll.

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