There is no room for a modern society to protect mass murderers even if they belong to the army. If the act promotes rape's, torture etc then it should be repealed or at worst there should be independent enquiries into such incidents. As far as north-east is concerned, there will be peace in the North-East if the central government considers them as indians and not otherwise. Knowing how these delhi guys treat north-east folks, I am not at all surprised that they want independence.