> But they should not >expect that at this stage (and even many stages ahead), > >the ULFA is going to go >around publicly voicing the details of their > minimum >acceptable point.
If this is true (and I do think this is a good possibility), what does that say about ULFA's 25 year stand and the huge loss of life and property? Have they been barking up the wrong tree? And if all this was a big game in planning out strategies of negotiations, why go to the extreme lengths of subversion for a quarter of a century? Had they voiced those minimum acceptable demands long time ago, I think they would had a lot more support from people. BTW: Why has the thread jumped? - there seem to be two threads with the same subject line. On 6/29/05, Roy, Santanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think one should not forget the logical contradiction between demanding > sovereignty and making public a set of supplementary demands. This holds no > matter how unlikely or unrealistic the event that the GOI is going to agree > to grant independence. Sovereignty is virtually all encompassing. It would be > incredibly stupid if the leaders of the ULFA were to say we want independence > for Assam and, by the way, lets also talk about handing over the rights to > oil extraction to the state government. > Even if the ULFA leadership is not Harvard trained, they have at least shown > the intelligence to not say something like that. > If forces outside the ULFA want to influence the terms of negotiation and get > their ideas about what a secondary set of demands ought to be, they ought to > go about forming public opinion on this independently of the ULFA and hope > the organization will echo them in their own political interest. But they > should not expect that at this stage (and even many stages ahead), the ULFA > is going to go around publicly voicing the details of their minimum > acceptable point. > Santanu. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
