[Assam] ULFA's killings of prominent global civilians
umesh sharma
jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 5 11:05:25 CST 2007
He He Ruby,
I guess I rubbed you the wrong way and touched a raw nerve . Truth hurts. Own up to your mistakes and join mainstream. You cannot achieve your goal (whatever it may be ) by unethical means.
Umesh
ulfa_ 1979April7 <ulfa_1979april7 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Dear Umesh Sharma,
Why don't you join World Bank- your next door OR
Go back to Jaipur to teach some primary sdchool OR
Come to us-we will reeducate you to re-educate Indian
Politicians.
Rubi
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:28:44 -0800
From: jaipurschool at yahoo.com
To: assam at assamnet.org
Subject: Re: [Assam] ULFA’s REJOINDER - Economic
Development is the Key
Hey Ruby,
Good to know that you are still to be converted. It
does raise a question that why after 22 years of
India's Independence (1947) suddenly out of the blue
ULFA was formed in 1979 -as your email address
mentions -- if not against apathy of the central govt
towards Assam's development.
Now that World Bank and others are talking and taking
actions about it and Assam's economic growth is 9% per
annum -- you and your so-called leader are singing a
different tune. Ha!!
Umesh
ulfa_ 1979April7 wrote:
umesh sharma wrote:
Hey Ruby,
get a life.
life -- you are now SULFA -- Surrendered ULFA -- get a
job. Forget your delusions of the past . Remember
that even BBC reported about your surrender>
Why you are repeatedly propagating that central
publicity member, ulfa rubi bhuyan is sulfa? We don't
know who surrender on the name of rubi bhuyan.
But this rejoinder is by our Chairman Arabinda
Rajkhowa. Why you did not comment on his rejoinder?
rubi
Umesh
ulfa_ 1979April7 wrote:
Bartta Bistar wrote:
TOP STORIES
Conflict in Assam works in nexus with weak economy:
World Bank report
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071022/48/6m9n4.html
ULFA’s REJOINDER
The above article posted by one ‘IE’ on
assamnet.org on October 23 is obviously an attempt to
manipulate the study titled “Who Benefits from
Civil Wars? Some Evidence from Assam”, reported
to have been carried out for the World Bank, so as to
undermine the historic reasons for the national
struggle to regain the sovereign independence of Asom.
Quoting from the World Bank report, may be out of
context, about the “direct nexus” between
the Asom-India conflict and a ‘weak
economy’ betrays the ulterior motif to divert
the core issue of our sovereignty and independence to
that of a ‘weak economy’ implying thereby
that effective measures to strengthen the economy will
take the wind out of our struggle. Certainly, as had
happened in any colonial situation, the percentage of
unemployment in Asom is also very high under Indian
colonial occupation. But this does not necessarily
undermine the primary importance of the historic
reasons that propels our struggle forward, though the
colonial economy convince our people that the national
struggle is also their struggle for existence.
Therefore, the primary source of motivation for the
youth of Asom impelling them join the national
struggle is patriotism and the faith in our
sovereignty and independence. A weak economy and the
resultant unemployment and corruption are general
phenomenon in any colonial situation. As such, it is
the colonial situation that gave rise to the national
liberation struggle of Asom, not just the
“direct nexus” between the
“conflict” and the “weak
economy”.
Arabinda Rajkhowa
Chairman
ULFA
03/11/07
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seems god article.
HS article on the same topic - not specific to Assam
that if enough groups in large enough numbers and
different ethicities exists - such problems are more
pronounced -- 97% Han Chinese China has no such
problem - (side note: -- I have a Chinese roommate
-says there are elephants in China)
umesh
Bartta Bistar wrote:
TOP STORIES
Conflict in Assam works in nexus with weak economy:
World Bank report
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071022/48/6m9n4.html
By IE
Tuesday October 23, 01:45 AM
The on-going conflict in Assam, that claimed over
4,400 lives between 1992 and 2001, has a "direct
nexus" with a weak economy, making it easier for
militant groups to find "young recruits", a study
carried out under the aegis of World Bank has
confirmed.
The study titled "Who benefits from Civil Wars? Some
evidence from Assam", pointed out that unemployment,
especially among the youth, showed disturbing trends
in the 1990s, which in turn had adverse implications
for the persistence of conflict.
"The number of unemployed youths in Assam registered
sharpest rise among 15 major states, between 1983 and
1993," the report said, pointing out that by 1993-94
(when Army operations against militants were in full
swing), "the number of unemployed youths in Assam was
about three times higher than the rest of India".
The argument of "easy recruitment" of potential rebels
is indirectly supported by this data, the study said.
The study was carried for the World Bank by Deepa
Narayan, Binayak Sen and Ashutosh Varshney.
The study also pointed out that though there were
several historic reasons behind the on-going conflict
in the state, the employment situation severely
deteriorated, particularly in the rural areas, during
the course of the conflict. "Though the level of rural
unemployment had been lower than that in urban areas
during the year of conflict, it is in the rural areas
that the sharpest increase in unemployment was
recorded," the study revealed.
The rural population was more affected during the
intensified phase of conflict between 1983 and 1993,
the report said, with statistics showing that the
number of rural poor increased sharply from 73.53 lakh
in 1987-88 to 94.33 lakh in 1993-94.
There have been some signs of improvement in the
overall employment scenario from 2000 onwards, but the
situation is yet to reach any turn-around, the study
said.
On the "nexus" between weak economy and conflict, the
study revealed that nearly 75 per cent of the
respondents in conflict-affected areas reported that
their village had a "weak" to "very weak" local
economy.
But what is more alarming is the increasing level of
corruption that itself could be a factor responsible
for the underdevelopment or slow pace of development
in the state. "Corruption in local government offices
marked a turn for the worse. Respondents in more than
65 per cent of the communities surveyed agreed that
government officials in their village and
neighbourhood were corrupt," the study said.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/nov/02hire.htm
Despite India's bid to integrate itself into the
global economy that counts more on merit than on
lineage, Indian employers continue to follow age-old
hiring practices that discriminate against lower
castes.
This is the view of Katherine Newman, professor of
sociology in Princeton University and Paul Attewell,
professor of sociology at the City University of New
York, who led a research study along with Surinder S
Jodhka of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Sukhadeo
Thorat.
"Indian employers, especially the large employers, do
continue, despite their views that they do not rely on
the caste factor for employment decisions, to have
preconceptions or stereotypes about applicants in the
labour market that reinforce caste as a source of
employment discrimination," Newman said.
"We have shown how the stereotypes can influence
hiring practices and make it very difficult for
people, particularly when relying on questions of
family background, which is a very common human
resources practice in India," Newsman told rediff.com
in a telephone interview from New Delhi.
"Our conceptions are that they are in line with caste
experience that makes it very difficult for people
from dalit backgrounds and OBC backgrounds to succeed
in the job competition," she said.
Admitting that discrimination in hiring practices
continues in India, Newsman said the firms that have
been interviewed are the most exposed to the modern
competitive markets. "And yet they are still
practicing human resource decisions that reinforce
caste identity and act in a discriminatory fashion,"
she said.
"So the idea that a modern Indian economy will do away
with these long-standing forms of discrimination is I
think an error. And that is what all the four studies
we have done show. We are focusing specifically on the
formal sector, the big firms, the ones most exposed to
international competition, and that is where many
people argue that modern India is headed to, and that
they do not need to worry about these problems,"
Newsman said.
The series of studies that Attewell said has been
presented to the Ministry of Human Resource
Development in New Delhi this week, for which both he
and Newman had gone to India, will be soon published
in a book form.
Newman said that research show that even in the modern
sector, among the large firms and multinationals,
these discriminatory practices continue often with
different languages although without overt reference
to caste.
"But it is a language that correlates and it does not
really make much of a difference. It is a mistake to
think that modernisation will by itself somehow cure
this problem. It is not going to cure the problem,"
she said.
Asked how the problems could be solved, she said the
debates over affirmative actions are important to
continue because these practices do really matter in
opening up opportunities.
"I think definitely investing in education is
important and nobody would ignore that and I think
enforcing anti-discrimination laws which is on the
book is absolutely critical," Newman said.
"Most of all, I think we need to understand that as
long as huge sectors of Indian population are shut out
of the very best jobs even when they are highly
qualified - because we were focusing on the graduates
of the most elite educational institutions - India
will be losing out on a huge amount of human capital
it cannot really afford to waste," Newsman said in the
interview.
"Unfortunately I think that it is pro-determined that
merit is seen as defined by family background which in
turns reflects caste, and so merit is not all by
itself just about the credentials someone brings
from an educational institution," she said.
"When employers asked about family backgrounds, they
were mixing this into their observations about
credentials and defining merit as the combination of
the two and so it is not for an individual to bring
himself or herself up to the educational system if
their families do not corroborate," Newman said.
She argued that if individual efforts would not carry
people forward and siblings' employment and parental
education would count, then it s not going to do any
good to the Indian society.
Newman said that students and workers coming from
lower caste backgrounds are not likely to have
families "that looks like what the employer thinks" is
the most desirable background to come from.
"In other parts of the world these kind of questions
would not be asked, not because they are illegal, but
because they would be considered irrelevant. And so I
do think it is worth reconsidering as to why Indian
employers care so much about family background when
they are looking at people who are presenting
important and impressive educational qualifications as
individuals," she said.
"Why should that matter? I have been surprised how
little has been discussed on this issue This is the
first paper to have raised this issue and this is an
import issue,' she said.
"You can't do much about your family you are born
into. You can do something about your own educational
qualifications but you can't change your family. And
if that is going to be held against people, it is
going to be a long road indeed,' Newman said.
Saying that the language of merit comes very much from
globalisation, she said that the view is that in order
to increase productivity and competition what one
looks for is the most qualified and hardest working
people.
"That is a mantra that is enforced in all of the
western economies. Indian employers are embracing the
same ideas, but somehow they are not moving away from
hundreds of years of tradition of employing people
from ones's own family or caste," she said.
"All of them reflect India's very aggressive move into
the international economic order, but as long as those
concepts remain of family background and all, and you
cannot move away from those traditional forms of
highly discriminatory hiring, it is not good for the
future,' she said.
--- umesh sharma wrote:
>
Assassinationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Liberation_Front_of_Asom
>
> Some of the major assassinations by ULFA include
> that of Surendra Paul in May 1990, the brother of
> British Indian businessman Lord Swraj Paul, that
> precipitated a situation leading to the sacking of
> the Government of Assam under Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
> and the beginning of Operation Bajrang.
> In 1991 a Russian engineer was kidnapped along with
> others and killed. In 1997, Sanjay Ghose, a social
> activist and a relative of a high ranking Indian
> diplomat, was kidnapped and killed. The highest
> government officer assassinated by the group was
> local AGP minister Nagen Sharma in 2000. An
> unsuccessful assassination attempt was made on AGP
> Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta in 1997. A
> mass grave, discovered at a destroyed ULFA camp in
> Lakhipathar forest, showed evidence of executions
> committed by ULFA.
> ULFA continues to attempt ambushes and sporadic
> attacks on government security forces.
> In 2003, the ULFA was accused of killing labourers
> from Bihar in response to molestation and raping of
> many Assamese girls in a train in Bihar. This
> incident sparked off anti-Bihar sentiment in Assam,
> which withered away after some months though.
> On August 15, 2004, an explosion occurred in Assam
> in which 10-15 people died, including some school
> children. This explosion was reportedly carried out
> by ULFA. The ULFA has obliquely accepted
> responsibility for the blast.[4] This appears to be
> the first instance of ULFA admitting to public
> killings with an incendiary device.
> In January 2007, the ULFA once again struck in
> Assam killing approximately 62 Hindi speaking
> migrant workers mostly from Bihar. On March 15,
> 2007, ULFA triggered a blast in Guwahati, injuring
> six persons as it celebrated its 'army day'.
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> Umesh Sharma
>
> Washington D.C.
>
> 1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
>
> Ed.M. - International Education Policy
> Harvard Graduate School of Education,
> Harvard University,
> Class of 2005
>
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> info)
>
> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
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