> - that you will be independent as long as you will do what I tell you to do, or else!
**** You may be right Alpana. I cannot read the minds of
insurgents, and what they hold dear in their deep dark souls.
But to conclude what you do, obviously from actions of the
insurgency/armed struggle mode, as what would logically follow if they
achieve ine dependence, seems rather simple minded and grossly
uninformed --- something highly unexpected of someone of your
caliber.
But I do realize, the act of spinning often presents a skewed
perspective of our own real abilities or ideals. And Tilok Daktor once
told me that too much spinning could exert excessive centrifugal force
on the brain, causing it to get compressed against the cranium, and
permanently impair one's inferential abilities. If I were you, I would
watch out for that A. Tilok may be a goru-daktor and a Jokaisukiya at
that, but he has seen a lot of weird things, that we will never see,
and thus never learn from :-).
c-da
At 12:50 AM -0500 8/16/05, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:
>day. That is the sad reality. Independence? From Whom? From
>What?
From being told what to do - year after year - from being threatened that if they feel and thus celebrate their being independent, they would die.
So who is keeping the people from being independent? And what kind of independence are they being promised? - that you will be independent as long as you will do what I tell you to do, or else!
From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Namita Das" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Assam" <assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu>
Subject: Re: [Assam] I - Day, AT editorial
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:09:45 -0500
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Good to hear from you after a very long time Namita.But I think you are looking at the issue thru a rather
constricted aperture.There is a whole lot more to it. Some of it you can see at:http://www.dainikagradoot.com/mainnews1.htmand also for >Democracy perhaps, but freedom waits.at:
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20050822&fname=JJohn+Pilger&sid=1&pn=3You do not need ULFA to reject the festivities of Independence
day. That is the sad reality. Independence? From Whom? From
What?c-daAt 9:02 PM -0400 8/15/05, Namita Das wrote:
Feel terrible how the people of Assam are
deprived of celebrating their own I-day by a terrible group.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ram Sarangapani"
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Subject: [Assam] I - Day, AT editorial
Some of the sentiments a number of us
have been expressing.
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I -Day violence
Calls by the insurgent outfits to boycott the Independence Day and
Republic Day has become the order of the day and this year is no
exception as four militant outfits of the north eastern region
including the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) have given a
call
to boycott the Independence Day celebrations. The ULFA, in an
apparent
move to deter the people of Assam from celebrating the day, even
went
to the extent of claiming that it would attack the venues of the
Independence Day celebrations. But on the positive side, the number
of
militant outfits giving calls for Independence Day celebrations is
coming down with every passing year with more and more militant
outfits coming forward for talks with the Government of India for
political solution of their problems and the possibility of the
ULFA
being totally isolated in the days to come cannot be ruled out.
Major
militant outfits of the North East region including both the
factions
of the NSCN have been holding talks with the Government of India,
while, the ULFA lost another of its partner- National DemocraticFront
of Boroland (NDFB) as the Bodo outfit has also signed a cease-fire
pact with the Government of India, which prevented the outfit from
giving any call to boycott the Independence Day celebrations.
The threat by the ULFA to attack the venues of the Independence
Day
celebrations also exposed the fact that the frustration level of
the
outfit is growing with every passing year. The ULFA can give
boycott
calls, but the people of Assam have the right to decide whether to
attend the celebrations or not and no one has the right to use
force
to compel anyone from attending any function. The gruesome killing
of
13 women and children in Dhemaji during the Independence Day
celebrations last year is still fresh in the memory of the people
of
Assam and the ULFA should remember the State-wide public outcry
against such kind of mindless killing before issuing any threat to
the
people who decide to attend the Independence Day celebrations. The
ULFA should also realise the fact that any killing of innocent
people
will further alienate the outfit from the masses and so they
should
desist from targeting innocent people to achieve their goals. The
outfit should also realise that it would never be able to justify
the
killing of any innocent person to achieve its goal.
The Police and other security agencies have made tight security
arrangements to foil any attempt by the militant outfit from
causing
any disturbance, but no amount of security is adequate as the
forces
cannot be expected to guard every inch of the land. The militants
have
let loose a reign of terror in different parts of Assam with a
series
of bomb explosions during the run up to the Independence Day and
instead of engaging the forces in encounters, the militants have
started to resort to explosions to make their presence felt. With
the
availability of highly sophisticated explosive devices including
the
programmable time devices with the
militants, it is impossible to
detect bombs planted in vulnerable places with the equipment
available
with the State Police and efforts should be made to procaure
sophisticated equipment to detect bombs planted by the militants
under
the scheme to modernise the State police force. At the same time,
efforts should be made by the Government of India to bring the
militants to the negotiation table for a political solution to the
problem of insurgency, which haunted the State for more than two
decades and at the time, the militants should also respect the
sentiments of the people of Assam and come forward for talks with
the
Government for an amicable solution of their problems. The people
of
Assam are now fed up with violence and they want a peaceful
solution
to the problem and both the Government and the ULFA should come
forward for talks without any pre-condition to bring an end to an
era
of violence and loss of life of innocent people.
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