Somebody told me-
-There is no Khaliamari Road in Dib.
-There is nobody of this name in Khalihamari-a locality
-Such Journalistic excellence is beyond any Khalihamari denizen's
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From: "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: AssamNet < assam@assamnet.org>
Subject: [Assam] Sentinel Letter
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:14:16 -0500
Last updated : SATUR DAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2006 Of Five Jailed ULFA Leaders
Why is the ULFA showing such desperation for the release of its five jailed comrades? Is it to enable it to have full-house discussion on the peace process? In other words, do they want us to believe that having terrorized the masses for 27 long years, they are suddenly in such a tearing hurry to give it up? Or have they suddenly developed love for their homeland Asom and hatred for Bangladesh? Has the ULFA suddenly become tired of raising millions of rupees by extortions and kidnappings, or has it suddenly realized the futility of money? Have Paresh Baruah and Arabinda Rajkhowa become saints overnight, realizing that all their guns and gold will be of no use in their last morbid journey on four shoulders and a yard of white cloth?
What has happened that the ULFA is desperately pressurizing the Centre for the release of its five comrades? It cannot be for reasons of peace, because till today extortions in upper Asom are in full swing. If the outfit is actually so keen to set the stage for peace talks, let it sit for the first round of talks without the jailed leaders participating in the talks. This will clearly show that their emphasis is on peace rather than the release of jailed terrorists.
Secondly, in this age of hi-tech gadgets, Paresh Baruah and Arabinda Rajkhowa can talk, see and discuss with all their jailed comrades through video-conferencing. For such discussions, it is not at all necessary to escort their friends from jails to Bangladesh in a chartered flight.
Thirdly, the ULFA team can land at New Delhi for peace talks and the jailed comrades can be flown there to join their leaders. After the talks, the jailed comrades can be flown back to Guwahati.
But the ULFA will never agree to any of the above modalities. It will insist on the jailed leaders' flight to Bangladesh. But why? This is so because their release is more important than peace in Asom. To understand this simple logic, one does not have to be a security analyst or a counterinsurgency expert.
Today, the ULFA is a dying organization without any leadership. They desperately need to have their top leaders back. Their demoralized cadres can achieve nothing except throwing a few grenades here and there, or deliver extortion notes to innocent, unarmed civilians. Moreover, the lower-rung cadres are now much wiser, refusing to risk their lives for nothing except ensuring luxurious lifestyle for their top leaders. They can see through the false revolutionary ideology as the ULFA's, and the theory of ''xonar Asom" holds no attraction or conviction.
The ULFA desperately needs its top leaders not only to motivate their grassroots-level cadres, but also to check their fading mutiny — the lower-rung cadres are impatient and ready to revolt against their top leaders. Naturally then, it is only the release of those five jailed ULFA leaders that can control the mutiny and revive the sagging morale of the lower-rung cadres.
What answer do the peace committees have to the jailed ULFA leaders jumping out of parole if released? Are the peace committee members ready to undergo imprisonment and serve the remaining jail term on behalf of the released leaders?
One must never forget that there is also an ISI angle to the whole picture. Both Paresh Baruah and Arabinda Rajkhowa are fully under the grip of ISI bosses in Bangladesh. The entire business empire of luxury hotels owned by them in Bangladesh are under the control of the ISI. Even their families and their children residing in Bangladesh are under constant ISI vigil. Do the ULFA leaders have the permission of the ISI to sit for direct peace talks with India? Or do the peace committees — whether the PCPI or the PCG or whatever — want us to believe that they have a bigger hold on Paresh Baruah and Arabinda Rajkhowa than the ISI of Pakistan? Will Paresh Baruah and Arabinda Rajkhowa follow the diktats of Rebati Phukan & Co at the risk of losing their own lives, properties and families?
The unconditional release of those five jailed terrorists at this time will conclusively prove that either some top Indian bureaucrats are lured by the ULFA's money power, or that some top Indian politicians deliberately want to keep the ULFA issue alive for ever.
MP Talukdar,
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