Well said.
On 6/3/05, Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The GOI's strategy is to wait and hope that all > > militancy will eventually tire and >get corrupted to > > a degree that doles and state level ministries can > > buy out. Then >it can just do another Assam accord > > of 1985. > > Left to itself GOI would have waited out the eventual > death of a militant group that finds its space > continually getting limited by the day. > > The context for GOI, however, is very different. There > is way more than a strong desire for peace in the > state to the point where the GOI is hearing it loud > and clear. It seeks economic growth in Assam (as it > seeks in Karnataka) and waiting much longer would be > very detrimental. There is a huge sensitity locally > and globally against terrorism. It desires to be in > the Security Council. It needs to connect to the rich > nations of SE Asia to fuel the humongous economic > growth it is seeking. GOI NEEDS peace in the next 2/3 > years, not the next 20/30. > > This context has very little to do with ULFA. > > And the public - its context is very different from > either ULFA or GOI. Neither the ULFA nor the GOI > voices the aspirations of many sections of Assamese > people. Which is why its voice/s and the message/s are > necessary. The public does not need to twiddle their > thumbs and stay behind the rest of India for the next > 50 years just because the ULFA decided on a pernicious > fight for 25 years. And if for that it needs to sell > out ULFA or treat the GOI as a business opponent which > needs the maximum extracted from, so be it. > > God forbid, we have a new cabinet and the change over > of cornering the market for government contracts from > SULFA to ULFA alone and nothing else to show for it. > > > > __________________________________ > Discover Yahoo! > Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! > http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html > _______________________________________________ > Assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam > > Mailing list FAQ: > http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/assam/assam-faq.html > To unsubscribe or change options: > http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam > _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [email protected] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam Mailing list FAQ: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/assam/assam-faq.html To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam
