[Assam] AT Letter - Ulfa and the people

[SANDIP DUTTA]

Netters - Forwarding a letter from yesterdays AT:

ULFA and the people
Sir,- ULFA killed 68 people of the Bihari community in Asom. Death toll continues with bomb blasts and might go up. All sections of the people rallied against it to show solidarity with that community. This is apparently heartening.

But to avoid such recurrence in future, this is the time for every Asomiya to take hold of a muffled voice insidious since the beginning of the Asom movement or even before that. It all began as a culmination of true concerns. Once a failed politician of Asom wrote in the now defunct famous weekly Neelachal about the sovereign status of Asom. Writings with ulterior motives foment emotions. The common people living in Asom are a victim of a guilt created by the intelligentsia. Numbers may count, but not absolutely. What counts is the appalling murderous activities. During the macabre dance of death, people witnessed only deadly silence or tacit support. This happened not without some actors. The outcome is a bizarre mindset devoid of human feeling. The actors are some remnants of the Asom movement. But when that movement faded, its apostles turned adrift, the leaders revealed their true colours in two terms of government, the fear psychosis they created remained with ULFA as
 lever for extortion and killing. Thus far the perpetual crime scene gained ground.

If ULFA is a fire which engulfs whole of Asom, it also warms some zealots. Cynicism with which a bunch of psycopaths indulges in killing worries less, because there is another bunch in corridors and streets, whose twists and turns make news! If human conscience still has some sense, killing of people for political end is inexplicable. Thereby hangs a tale what law would reign in "sovereign Asom". The government and intelligentsia did not look down on the initial modus operandi, when a victim was encircled and killed. The people took it for a ‘change’. That made ‘our child’ the Frankenstein.

The situation is going to be far grave than anyone could imagine. As you sow so you reap, so goes the adage. Our much pampered children are now prodigal sons pampered by India’s permanent enemies who in turn serves as conduits for India’s most turbulent friend China in the latter’s game of being the super power of the third world. It is a calculated game of fishing in troubled waters by those nations. Any layman can question our central leaders’ real concern for Asom and their ability and grit to use intelligence and diplomacy. Otherwise revolutionaries in captivity would continue to lambast us and the entire Asomiya society would have to live with an insult to their age old perception of identity. -Yours etc., INDRA KAMAL DUTTA, Jorhat.


 
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