Please read "Peru" instead of "Chile" in the note. The inadvertent slip is regretted. Sukla
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Venugopalan K M <kmvenuan...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sukla Sen <sukla...@yahoo.com> > Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:44 PM > Subject: [humanrights-movement:1650] A Brief and Tentative Note on Maoist > Violence in the Context of Lalgarh > > > While it'd be quite foolhardy to condemn "violence" under every and all > circumstances, "violence" has its own inherent pernicious dynamic - it > almost inevitably brutalises and undermines democratic principles. > It is at best a necessary evil, under certain, not all, circumstances. > > Having said that, let me propose that Maoist politics - the politics of > brute violence detached from and, by its very nature, disallowing mass > particiaptive politics - is morally repugnant and has no future either. > On a global scale they had in recent years four major hubs of insurgency: > Chile, Nepal, Philippines and India. > Now they stand wiped out in Chile. In Nepal they have changed track and > their position has become uncertain after some striking success. In > Philippines, they have apparently suffered decline. > > In India, it is no accident that they are confined to the most backward > hinterlands inhabited by the poorest - and cruelly exploited - of adivasis - > the indigenous people. Utter government insensitivity is responsible for > that. > Usually it is claimed that Maoists have significant presence in one-fourth > of India's 600+ districts. > But that is highly misleading. Because that doesn't tell us how much of a > particular district is under Maoist/insurgent control. Even a corner is > affected, the whole district is counted in. Info on what fractions of Indian > villages - around 6,40,000, is affected would have been far more insightful. > In any case, the whole idea that every fourth district is under insurgent > control is hugely out of tune with our real life experiences. It is the > adivasi inhabited most backward regions of northern portion of South India - > i.e. Andhra Pradesh, parts of eastern India - Orissa, West Bengal, > Jharkhand, Bihar and parts of central India - Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, > in patches - are affected. > > One of the most perceptive and sympathetic observer, K Balagopal, had > observed that the very success of the Maoists - resulting in improvement in > living conditions - has resulted in their decline in AP. > It also needs be noted that they have now hardly any presence in towns and > cities. So very different from the heady days of late sixties and seventies. > > As regards state terror, there is hardly any controversy. > "Heavy handed and indiscrimante state actions are not only utterly morally > repugnant but also largely self-defeating as it on the contrary help to > augment the ranks of the rebels. And debases the whole political order in > the process." > That's what I had posted elsewhere just a while ago. > But no blanket justification of "Red Terror" against "White Terror". > > > Peace Is Doable > > ------------------------------ > ICC World Twenty20 England '09 exclusively on YAHOO! CRICKET > <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_cricket_3/*http://cricket.yahoo.com> > > > > -- > http://venukm.blogspot.com > > http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur > > http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
