You said it Santanu.
What I find incredible is this body of otherwise highly intelligent
and skilled group of people being unable to grasp something as
basic,and as simple as that.
What is the problem? Is it them desi-genes :-)?
c-da
At 9:04 PM -0500 6/29/05, Roy, Santanu 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.
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