Ukraine is not a relevant example! In Ukraine, it is really about 2 groups fighting the polls. Which is not what we see here.
That is because, things got fixed before they got out of hand.
Simmering discontent was brewing in Assam long before ULFA came into being.
And ULFA was NOT 'discredited' when it emerged. Even now it is discredited only in certain circles. ULFA could not have emerged, had the discredited center woken up to the realities and done something for change for the better, affected
reforms.
Now everyone is paying the price. It is not just Assam. Difference is that in India lives are cheap. Who keeps count of how many have died in the NE?
At 11:16 AM -0800 12/9/04, Rajib Das wrote:
I was not discussing about force or a people's revolution. I posed a question about the discussions really being about transfer of power from one discredited group to another.
Ukraine is not a relevant example! In Ukraine, it is really about 2 groups fighting the polls. Which is not what we see here.
--- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Right. But how is it "reforms" when the discussions >are with one group of discredited power brokers (the >liberators) about how they could share or take power >from another group (the local political class)? >
*** The question of force comes into the picture when the institutions of democracy fail to perform. In this instance Indian democracy could not, peacefully, help usher in the required reforms and changes.
But we can look at Ukraine right now. There the party in power realized that if they did not give into reform demands and attempted either to stonewall or stifle the demands of the people by brute force ( as India did to Assam twenty five years ago), then violence-- civil war--was sure to break-out, with even outside powers pitching in, such as western European powers or even the USA and thus turning into a confrontation with Russia as well. That could have caused a huge conflict that no one was looking for.
At 9:58 AM -0800 12/9/04, Rajib Das wrote: > > Without reforms, what we get is what we have. And >> surely it will only >> get worse, as we have seen over the last quarter >> century, and just >> like it was predicted >> by thoughtful observers. >> >> That is why. >> > >Right. But how is it "reforms" when the discussions >are with one group of discredited power brokers (the >liberators) about how they could share or take power >from another group (the local political class)? > > > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. >http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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