C'da,
>Extremism and violence do not fall from the sky on some dark and
stormy night, on an 'ounxir >endhaar raati'. They brew over decades,
slowly building steam. Only after seeing no ability to >effect change,
get redress for grievances, do people finally, in desperation, take up
arms, knowing >full well that their likely rewards might just be death
and imprisonment. Hundreds of thousands of >ordinary people don't go
about courting death like this if there are any redress in sight or
seemed >achievable
No they don't. I think we all understand these from historical
missteps/errors whether they were in Delhi or in Assam.
The question is, what do we do now?
>Extremism and violence do not fall from the sky on some dark and
stormy night, on an 'ounxir >endhaar raati'. They brew over decades,
slowly building steam. Only after seeing no ability to >effect change,
get redress for grievances, do people finally, in desperation, take up
arms, knowing >full well that their likely rewards might just be death
and imprisonment. Hundreds of thousands of >ordinary people don't go
about courting death like this if there are any redress in sight or
seemed >achievable
No they don't. I think we all understand these from historical
missteps/errors whether they were in Delhi or in Assam.
The question is, what do we do now?
Here is a PM who IS TRYING to set
things aright. But you still want to go back and re-hash history and
blame the PM for even trying.
If Assam has any chance of peace, this PM (with his connections to
Assam) and his administrations is as close as you can get.
We can either keep griping and wail & moan or think forward and
capitalize on what we have here.
'Indian democracy', whether you like it or not is here to stay in its
present form and function. We can curse it all we want, we can hate
it, but the fact of the matter is Assam and her people, just like the
rest of India have to make the best of what they have.
Yes, we would all like improvements in many areas. But your solutions
so far has been a solution of 'throwing the baby with the bath-water'
things aright. But you still want to go back and re-hash history and
blame the PM for even trying.
If Assam has any chance of peace, this PM (with his connections to
Assam) and his administrations is as close as you can get.
We can either keep griping and wail & moan or think forward and
capitalize on what we have here.
'Indian democracy', whether you like it or not is here to stay in its
present form and function. We can curse it all we want, we can hate
it, but the fact of the matter is Assam and her people, just like the
rest of India have to make the best of what they have.
Yes, we would all like improvements in many areas. But your solutions
so far has been a solution of 'throwing the baby with the bath-water'
Is that what we want for Assam - a state embroiled in uncertainity,
stunted growth, and myraid of other problems?
Solutions for an 'independent Assam' given all these conditions are
too far-fetched. Even taking your position - that the Indian democarcy
is wretched, IT is the GOI to which the insurgents will ultimately
have to go to for parleys. It is this same 'wretched' GOI that all
this has to come thru.
I know, you will come back and ask: Who is the GOI to give anything (all that mai-baap stuff) to Assam. But looking at the situation in a more practical sense (and without emotion), it is the GOI we have to deal with, and I should think with a PM like Singh who is far more decent than some we have had before, there is a pretty good chance at peace.
--Ram
On 8/22/05, Chan Mahanta <
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> thru the process they mistakenly call 'Indian democracy', ALMOST an oxymoron by itself, like 'military intelligence'.
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> Those who cannot fathom that, are the same people who go about making the MMS like pithy pronouncements, after the fact.
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> Was India unaware of what was brewing in Kashmir Ram? Only the profoundly ignorant or deluded will claim that. Was India unaware of Assam's discontent, before LFA happened? You tell me.
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> And what did Indian democracy do to prevent them? To forestall them? Dilute the discontent? Where was the great Indian democratic machine? Why could it not not show that it could be counted on to do what MMS claims it can do now? How is it an iota different from what it was then?
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> > I have said this to the Hurriyat in Kashmir, ULFA in Assam and Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh-there is no grievance that cannot be redressed through democratic means and sustained dialogue,''
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> **** What a self contradicting statement!
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> Maybe, I am missing something here. But I don't see any self-contradictory statement here. What is wrong with what the PM is saying. I have even removed my tinted glasses, still don't see a darn thing wrong with the statement. :)
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> "The Prime Minister made it clear that terror tactics would not be tolerated. ''Faced with terror tactics, the government will have no other option than to fight such groups and their ideology of hatred. Extremism of any form, based on any divisive ideology, cannot be tolerated in any civilised democratic society,'' "
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> Nor, do I see a problem with the above.
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> --Ram
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