[Assam] See what the revolutionaries are upto!

[umesh sharma]

C-da,
   
  Do you believe in negotiating with terrorists --US doesn't. 
  ULFA has proved itself to be terrorists by killing innocents again. Hasn't it? Why equate killing of laborers by ULFa to killing of ULFA by Indian army?
   
  Umesh

Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
        >The motive of ULFA killings is to create a vacuum so that the Bangladeshis can >occupy the professions now being monopolised by the Biharis etc. This is plain >and simple and nobody is saying it in as many words.
  

  

  Let us examine this bit of wisdom, which seems to have its origins in the hallowed editorial chambers of the Sentinel:
  

  

          *** First off, regardless of MOTIVES, the killings are horrible
          tragedies, that none of us can or should condone, support,
          promote or abet; directly or indirectly, overtly or tacitly.
  

          *** If indeed killing of Hindi-speaking laborers/traders/political
          leaders ( they are NOT all laborers, if newspaper reports are to be
          believed)  is to create jobs for illegal B'deshi immigrants, like these
          'analysts' tell us ; should it not raise a red-flag in the minds
          of Assam's protectors and 'mai-baap' in Delhi?
  

          *** Has Delhi NOT heard, from the late 1970s , about Assam's discontent
          with unabated B'deshi migration to the state and to the region, which
          actually triggered the ULFA movement, even though it is rooted in
          much more?
  

          *** If that was not enough, why have Assam's protectors NOT done
          anything about it, even at this late date, even after brilliant
          intellects who have finally seen through the ULFA ploy of turning
          Assam over to B'desh, point it out in The Sentinel, The Statesman,
          The Telegraph ,The ToI? Never mind the plaintive outpourings of
          assamnetters and their NRI sympathizers and admirers.
  

          Is India NOT worried about losing Assam's wealth to the hordes of
          the lungi menace and B'Desh? After-all non-Assamese Indians own
          most of Assam , don't they? Don't India's strategic planners and
          steel-trap minded military generals see this huge risk to India's
          'national security'?
  

          Are they blind, are they stupid, are they THAT inept? Are they SOOO
          impotent? Are they sooo clueless that they cannot connect these
          NOT-subtle dots, but glaring beacons?
  

  Well? What gives?
  

  Perhaps they indeed are blind, stupid, inept ,clueless and abjectly impotent to do anything about it. Heavens know we see  daily examples of that all over the sub-continent, don't we? It is entirely possible that these morons who supposedly govern India and 'protect' ( heh-heh!) Assam are worse than Keystone Cops.
  

          *** If so, WHY can't our brilliant netters see thru that when they wail
          on the internet like a bunch of cry-babies or go about parroting
          simple-minded anal-yses by a clueless and careless media ? What is
          their excuse? Are they too clones of their nincompoop keepers and
          saviors?
  

  The truth, unfortunately, is a whole lot more complicated.
  

  BUT, even if it were not; EVEN if  parroting of these simple-minded anal-yses really are what it is all about; would it not make sense for those who are dismayed by these developments to RAISE their voices to end the carnage? Carnage not merely of Hindi speakers, but of ULFA who are Oxomiya youth - our own; of Indian soldiers ( they too are human, aren't they?) and innocent bystanders -- regardless of the labels we place so conveniently to rob them of their humanity?
  

  I like to think, that all these fine people whose outrage erupts only when such bloodshed makes the headlines, are not asleep the rest of the time.
  

  So WHY do they AID and ABET this quarter century old carnage, albeit indirectly, by remaining silent or in fact opposing a negotiated political settlement between the Indian Govt. and ULFA ? Why don't they urge their keepers and saviors to end it, once and for all?
  

  I hope our friends will take a moment to reflect on that. I like to think they are more than able to.
  

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