[Assam] AT Letter - Ulfa and the people

[Chan Mahanta]

Hello Sandip:

I tried to understand what the writer was trying 
to convey. But I failed. It is not my intent here 
to feign 'no-comprendo' on account of the 
writer's obvious difficulty with this damned 
English language. But one can get the gist of a 
substantive piece, even when the language leaves 
something to be desired. Except that I could not 
quite make out what the writer is trying to tell 
us in this piece.

Considering your forwarding the piece , I presume 
you did get it. Can you help the likes of this 
'odhom' with what it might be ?

cm










At 3:31 PM -0800 2/2/07, SANDIP DUTTA wrote:
>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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