[Assam] This heading says a lot: “Probably by a freehand they mean the go ahead to nuke Assam and free it of all living beings!”

[Bartta Bistar]

Probably by a freehand they mean the go ahead to nuke Assam and free it of
all living beings!



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Palash <http://www.indiainteracts.com/template/arch_colum_user.php?id=1698>

http://indiainteracts.com/members/2007/10/17/Probably-by-a-freehand-they-mean-the-go-ahead-to-nuke-Assam-and-free-it-of-all-living-beings/

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The army recently told Delhi that it could crush Ulfa within a few
months if it were allowed to continue counter-insurgency operations
without political interference.
Unquote

George Bush Jr. had declared Iraq war over on May 1 2003!

Had wishes been horses!

Forget about the North-East and Kashmir, we all know how the Indian
Army fared in Sri Lanka in its attempt to subdue the LTTE, its one
time protégé.

Probably by a freehand they mean the go ahead to nuke Assam and free
it of all living beings!

Sukla

It is interesting. But I am clueless why ULFA is
trying to point their guns to some individuals (with
direct e-mails) rather addressing questions raised in
an open forum. As of today Assam-online has been used
as an open forum to discuss topics/issues applicable
to all of us including Assam's progress, employment of
youths etc. This has been also the forum to share
important information including job opportunities.
This is a place to through our constructive ideas and
healthy discussion will always bring the fruit. My
humble request to all parties including, ULFA to
participate in a constructive discussion. We can opt
out at any moment with no obligation, but please keep
the discussion around the prime subject as long as it
continues.

Thanks.
Krishna

--- noyon jyoti parasara <noyonjp at yahoo.com> wrote:

Ok.
this is outrageously funny!
Thanks Ruby and the whole of ULFA for time and again
for mentioning that it was my stupid reaction to
your mail that has triggered off such a series of
mail. But if i hadn't ... some one else might have.
in any case you would have required to answer some
question - since you are fighting for the cause our
homeland.

Let me clarify it to you when i said 'my stupid
reaction'. I said that because i should have
understood earlier that you arent capable of
answering questions from us. No power-struck
organisation or person would be. hence sorry about
that... too much of a trouble inflicted.

but i am really surprised at my name being mentioned
in third person in every mail. talk to me direct.
it's very funny actually, to see the name being
discussed... and yes please my name is Noyon. not
Nayan.(i spell the name and pronounce it that way,
and make other pronounce it that way) i am very
approachable and a person with a truly open mind.
try persusading me on your agenda... if i am
convinced i would mind joing you and raising
slogans... but please explain your actions.

Till then i have no isues being black listed by the
organisation which i believe is very majorly
responsible (not entirely of course) for assam's
economic state.

I am also sorry that you have branded Mr Shantikam
Hazarika and Utpal da in the same category as me. i
am a mindless freak who does things on instinct.
They are learned people and know what they are
talking about. Truely my solace is that they think
in the same lines as me. in any case i see most
people questioning your actions rather than mine -
at least in this commnity. Why dont you explains
your stand... with valid answers to our questions.
As i said... i am ready to join you... convince
me...

Good luck and regards

Noyon :)

"Shantikam Hazarika" wrote:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3727

I have only one question to Ruby whoever she may be.

Does she know that because of the influx of bangladeshis our very existence
as assamese people is in danger? Who is a bigger enemy for us now, the so
called occupation army (?) or the bangladeshis who have already occupied our
mother land and will be ruling us in not distant a future. Whom should we
drive out urgently?

The poor Biharis or the bangladeshis? Assuming we get Independence from
India ( I am an Indian first and was also very proud to be an assamese. But
alas! now I am ashamed to call myself an assamese because we donot know how
to protect ourselves.We have been selling ourselves cheap for petty gains.

The politicians are selling our land and the socalled liberators are
abetting in this process) wont we be ruled by a force more vicious and
barbarous?

I was proud because our forefathers could drive away the mughals. I am
ashamed because our beautiful and wonderful land is getting swarmed by the
aliens and making us an endangered species

AC Barua

baruahbhaskar <baruahbhaskar at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Dear Rubi,

I am glad to find this message from you in my mailbox. It is a very well
reasoned and mature reply.Whoever has been replying as Rubi Bhuyan to
earlier messages on Assam Online has done a lot of damage to the image of
Ulfa among the assamese netters.(Its another matter that you consider all of
them RAW agents without any basis).The answers were vague and extremely
childlish.I hope you will agree that any opinion or question cannot be
brushed aside or silenced by bullets.As such I hope that you will take the
trouble to answer the questions raised by people in a convincing manner
instead of calling them names such as RAW agents,frustrated lot,idiots etc
etc as these answers are read by a lot of people.

Many years back I remember that your organization used to punish
criminals,corrupt people,eve teasers,rapists etc(those were the days when we
were in college " thought that there's hope for justice) but today the
people of Assam are more troubled by them then by anything else.

Regards
Bhaskar

--- ulfa_ 1979April7 <ulfa_1979april7 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3736


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Unification Revolution Emancipation

United Liberation Front of Asom(ULFA)
FREEDOM
Volume 10 Issue 1
15 October 2007
Monthly Newsletter
Internet Edition
E-mail: ulfa_1979april7 at yahoo.co.uk
Freedomedit05 at yahoo.co.uk

Editorial

The Indian government wants a military solution only

Currently, the commanders of the IOF stationed in Asom, making political
statements, which give a clear indication that the Indian Government is not
interested in a peaceful resolution of the conflict between Asom and India.
On 7 October 2007 the Indian daily 'The Telegraph' quoted the top Indian
army officer as saying," It expects to have a stranglehold on ULFA in "three
to four months" and that there is no need for the government to even weigh
the talks option". What is important here is that no political leaders of
these occupied territories have reacted in any form to such jingoistic
statements by the Indian military brass in Asom. With this kind of arrogance
twenty one Khasi Siems out of twenty two, the Kings of Manipur and Kamtapur
and the queen of Tripura were forced to sign the 'merger agreements' with
India for their respective States. The successive self-determination
struggles of the region to regain their national rights have been crushed by
brute military force rather than by civilized means of conflict resolution.
The Twenty Eight year long struggle of Asom has been under continuous Indian
military onslaught resulting in the martyrdom of over Ten Thousand lives.

As the ULFA has refused to submit to the Indian pressure, the IOF has
intensified the military operations against the organization. Does India
naively believe that all the problems will disappear from Asom once the ULFA
is annihilated? Was there, in the real sense of the term, any development,
progress, peace and prosperity in Asom before the ULFA came into existence?
The Indian military commanders are now bragging that Asom can be kept under
India forcibly. But why the same army, instead of standing by the people of
Asom in 1962, fled Asom unable to resist the Chinese advance? If a similar
situation arises, what guarantee is there that the Indian army or the
colonial administration will not behave in the same manner? What have they
done in the past sixty years for the people of Asom apart from looting our
riches? To save Asom and for the security of the people of Asom there is a
need for non-racist liberation organisation like the ULFA. Even if the
Indian Occupation Forces destroy the ULFA today, it cannot obliterate the
productive capacity of our mothers. The enslaved mothers of Asom will give
birth to ULFA again. The freedom struggle of Asom will go on till India
restores the basic human rights of our people and their inalienable birth
rights of sovereignty and independence.


Let India be ready to face people of Asom

A huge public uprising is back on the street again to unveil the bare truth
of Indian Occupation Forces' villainous and racist character. After a lull
of few days, they have resorted to their authorised duty of molesting,
raping of Asomese women. Amidst the execution of their "serious operation"
to give ULFA an ultimate assault, the IOF is conducting its parallel
responsibility of violating the modesty of women folk of Asom.
In a recent incident, under the pretext of searching ULFA cadres on 8
October personnel of IOF molested Jyotsna Konwar, a mother of two and wife
of Pratap Konwar at Tipomia village under Tengakhat police station in
Dibrugarh district. According to news reports, a team from the Lengrai-based
camp of the 11 Guards Regiment and some surrendered ULFA
members-turned-informers at 6 am on that day molested the woman, during a
search operation of ULFA. Citizens of the district have raised serious
complaints of inhuman torture and humiliation of innocent civilian during
IOF operations.



This triggered off a huge mass protest against IOF's repeated human rights
violations in the name of anti-ULFA operation. More than 5000-strong crowd
of 20-odd villages of Dibrugarh district led by the All Assam Students'
Union laid siege to the office of the Circle Officer of Tengakhat and gave
the government three days time to restraint the army or face a "massive and
sustained mass agitation" that would include "sudden highway and rail
blockades". But to escape from the heat of the massive protest, the army
made an immediate reaction terming the protest "propaganda and newer
methodology" to counter them by ULFA. Facing set back on all efforts to
demoralize our freedom fighters and freedom craving people, the IOF has now
picked up new tactics of propaganda that ULFA is sensationalizing such
issues to malign the image of IOF. Masses now know that these crimes against
the women are the outcome of frustration among the IOF. The persisting
stronghold of ULFA and extensive support of the masses towards the national
liberation struggle left the IOF utterly frustrated. For this reason Indian
administration is continuously framing baseless allegation that ULFA is not
working for the betterment of society but is a mere criminal establishment
working for self-interest who kills innocent people by triggering bomb in
public places, extort money etc. Meanwhile, the protesters who seized the
office of the circle officer said the district and state administration have
planned to meet Indian President to make her understand the pain of women
folk of Asom.
In another significant move, Jyotsna Knowar, the victim has lodged a
complaint against the IOF culprit with Tengakhat police station on October
9. But surprisingly two days later instead of responding to the people's
demand, the army has registered a counter complaint against Jyotsna alleging
her for acting at the behest of ULFA. Apart from the victim, the army named
her husband Pratap Konwar, fellow villager Putuli Phukon and the headman of
Tipomia village, Nareswar Gogoi, in its complaint. It accused them of
unlawfully restraining government agencies from carrying out their official
raise voices against social unjust and oppression. Just to get rid of the
heat of the anti-army sentiment triggered in Asom, the army is
premeditatedly organizing such ventures. Pressurizing the victim to withdraw
complaint against army and to find a middle course of the incident is
definitely a big blow to democracy. It is important to mention that similar
incident was also occurred with a woman named Maniki Bezbaruah at Bijuli
Ghat of Nalbari district in 1998. At that time also the army lodged a
counter complaint against Maliki as a tactic to put pressure to take back
her complaint.
India tries to link ULFA with each and every incidents of violence but their
role against such crimes committed by their soldiers proves they are
traitors. Therefore we appeal to the people of Asom to be more vigilant and
must stand unitedly against India's every conspired design. Such menace of
state terrorism can be eradicated only when Indian colonial occupation of
Asom is overthrown.

SOFT AND HARD TARGET
We have noticed lately that currently some print medias in Asom in tandem
with the Indian occupation forces have involved like an obedient knave of
the Indian Occupation Force in propagating false propaganda against the
ULFA. These newspapers not only are willing accomplices in the
disinformation exercise have also been proactive in exaggerating the
materials in news reporting, even in editorial comments. Newspapers of the
caliber of 'The Assam Tribune', which are likened to the foundation bricks
of democratic process, have abandoned their journalistic responsibilities.
They are co-operating with the Indian Occupation Forces in publishing
dictated editorials for petty personal gains. This is very shameful. The
Assam tribune editorial of 23 September "Soft and hard target" reflects this
moral degeneration.
The Indian colonial administration has been harping along that the ULFA has
been exploding bombs in public places 'to kill innocent peoples' to create
terror. The servile effort of the editor of the said newspaper has not only
weakened the democratic and independent foundation of the media at large,
but has also caused great anxiety amongst the population.
When a junior officer of the IOF asked media persons to deliver what the IOF
desires, taking it as an order from his lord himself these 'educated'
businessmen of Asom have only exposed their servile and spineless character
to foreign colonialists since the time of British colonialism.
Today everybody is aware about the aim of the ULFA that is to restore the
sovereign independence of Asom. Our target is to overthrow Indian colonial
rule and all its appendages from the soil of Asom. If Lt. Gen. Jaisawal, the
commander of the 4th corps of the IOF in Asom means that these are the "soft
target" in his statement, we have nothing to say. In the India-China war of
1962, over 150,000 Indian soldiers surrendered to the Chinese Red Army
totally bewildered. They had to hand over all the military hardware to the
Chinese. Those who escaped cowering down in the manner of a 'wet cat' fled
Asom.
Now after killing Sabitri Rajbangshi, a mother, Debojit Moran a five year
old boy at Margherita, mass slaughter of the unarmed demonstrators on the
highway at Kakopathar, barbaric violence against the fair sex
indiscriminately at Borborua in Dibrugarh, murdering of Ajoy Deka, an
engineer of an IOF camp, blasting a bomb inside the hut of Uma Gogoi of
Mahmora Borbil in Sivasagar, after killing the family, to shred the corpses
into pieces are being touted as the 'bravery' of Indian soldiers. For
Jaisawal the above cited cases are hard targets!
The ULFA has categorically reiterated that the organisation is not involved
in any of the explosions in public places. The ULFA is always careful not to
hurt our own people and innocents. All the explosions in public places are
part of an IOF game plan to malign the ULFA in order to isolate it from the
masses of the people. To this end the Indian government has activated their
propaganda machineries to carry out the disinformation campaign heaving all
the blame entirely on the ULFA. But truth prevails in the long run, and the
IOF's sinister design has been exposed to the core. Despite these facts
being known, the Assam Tribune wrote an editorial supporting the Jaisawal
statement. Our cadres may have committed mistakes elsewhere, and it is quite
justified to criticise those mistakes. ULFA has categorically clarified that
it was not involved in those explosions. Despite the clarifications by ULFA,
the Assam Tribune still supported the Jaisawal statement for obvious
reasons. This biased attitude is an affront to the democratic rights of the
people of Asom.

There is no alternative to liberation struggle
Today it is ever more important to participate actively and continue
powerful resistance movement against the atrocities of the Indian Occupation
Forces (IOF). The IOF is hell bent to crush the national liberation struggle
in order to prevent a popular uprising against IOF. This military repression
is being supplemented by fear psychosis, deceit, physical torture, rape and
murder so as to intimidate the masses of our people.
The Indian Occupation Forces are trying to strike wedges between the
different indigenous peoples, the Hindu and the Muslim, Buddhists, Jains and
Christians with racist and divisive politics to dismantle the centuries old
amity amongst the bona fide people of Asom. To establish that public support
for the ULFA is waning, the IOF has used both inducements and threats as
part of a bag of dirty tricks to recruit accomplices. They have created
various political fronts and Non-Governmental Organisations to engage in
descrediting ULFA's aims. They are using implicit or explicit methods to
create gaps between the masses with a view of destroying the national
liberation struggle.
The explicit methods are: (1) Military operations against the ULFA. (2)
Conduct of so-called humanitarian missions like providing health care which
is actually damage control exercise, immediately after their military
operation resulting in several civilian casualtie. (3)Manipulating the media
in issuing anti ULFA statements in media-briefings and public meetings. In
using the explicit strategies the occupation forces attempt to use the UN
charter as a cover-up to conduct their operations. However, the depraved IOF
soldiers do not care to honour the Geneva Convention. The civilian
population usually end up bearing the brunt of the IOF operations resorting
to rampant violation of human rights. Although some immediate protest
actions do spontaneously get off but immediately contained by the State
terror mechanisms.
The implicit measures the IOF use against the ULFA are: (1) The poor
villagers are enticed with huge rewards to inform on the ULFA cadres.
(2)Gathering of socially undesirable elements in groups to use them to
harass and loot ULFA sympathisers.(3)Use of surrendered cadres of the ULFA
controlled by some special police officers in a secret organisation to
assassinate our cadres, their family members or supporters or blackmailing
them to work against the ULFA, and (4) Faking an encounter to murder already
detained cadres and ULFA supporters.
Exploding bombs in public places from time to time and then blaming the ULFA
for the same and forcing the journalists to report the incident as such is
also part of the same hidden policy. We must also be alert about creation of
Non-Governmental Organisations created and controlled by Indian intelligence
agencies. These organizations are used in disinformation activities such as
putting up anti ULFA wall posters.
Moreover these organisations play active role in creating divisions among
the various indigenous peoples, particularly against the ULFA.
For the sake of national unity and success of the freedom struggle, the
indigenous peoples of Asom must stand shoulder to shoulder to defeat the
Indian tricks and be pro-active in marching together forward on a national
resistance platform. Otherwise the above sinister policies of the IOF will
cause fratricidal conflict amongst the indigenous peoples destroying the age
old harmony and goodwill prevailing from ancient times. Certainly, it is not
a welcome prospect. We must take note that although the occupation forces
have so far failed to create such internecine conflicts, they have succeeded
partially because of our lack of awareness and lack of understanding amongst
us. To prevent the design of the occupation forces to destroy our unity, we
must embark upon the mass resistance movement even more vigorously. It is
time to confront the enemy again with the spirit of Saraighat, the golden
hour of Asom.
World remembers revolutionary icon Che Guevara
on his 40th death anniversary
For decades a global icon of revolution, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was honored 9
October on anniversary of his death with ceremonies around the world
specially in Cuba, where his myth was forged, and Bolivia, where he was
executed 40 years ago spreading the gospel of Marxist revolution. Guevara
the key player of the triumph of Cuban revolution was honoured and paid
homage by innumerable fervent admirers and comrades-in-arms like Fidel
Castro as an "exceptional combatant".
Born Ernesto Guevara in the Argentinian city of Rosario in 1928, Che trained
as a doctor before being caught up in the political conflicts sweeping Latin
America. His conversion to revolutionary Marxism began after he traveled
across the region in 1952 and 1953, and was shocked at the economic
disparities in the region. His life changed dramatically when he met Fidel
Castro and his brother Raul in Mexico in 1955, and became convinced that
violence was the only way to overturn an unjust social order.
He quickly joined the Castros' armed uprising against the then Cuban
dictator Fulgencio Batista. After their revolution triumphed in January
1959, Guevara was appointed Cuba's industry minister and governor of Cuba's
central bank, when he advocated nationalising private businesses.
He dreamed of a classless society where wages would be made unnecessary and
money abolished. Today he is commemorated in Latin America in many ways like
pictured on Cuba's banknotes cutting sugar cane with a machete, by toiling
shirtless on building sites or hauling sacks of sugar.
Growing restless and not content to rest on his laurels in Cuba, Guevara
sought to spread revolution around the world, traveling in 1965 to the Congo
with a group of Cuban revolutionaries to join up with Marxist guerillas
there. After leading a group of Cuban revolutionaries in the Congo, Che
traveled to Bolivia, arriving in late 1966. Guevara led a small clutch of
rebels in Bolivia for 11 months trying to spread revolution, but found
little support. The Bolivian army and two Cuban-American US Central
Intelligence Agency agents captured an ill Guevara in the village of La
Higuera, and executed him on October 9, 1967. He was only 39. The then
Bolivia's president avoid a trial that would give Guevara a global platform
to spread his views
Decades after he gave up a comfortable middle class life in Argentina to
foment armed revolution, Guevara still inspires people around the world as
revolutionary ideal. With his death the personification of revolution was
born and the death can be described as "like a flower torn up prematurely by
the stem."
"Today he is in every place, wherever there is a just cause to defend."

Asom marks India's brutality again

The unjust and continuous killing of ULFA cadres in fake encounters reflects
India as homicidal maniac and their every attempt to conceal their
frustration failing to hinder the national liberation struggle is exposed.
With intensified military operation the Red Horns Division of the Indian
Occupation Forces killed two ULFA members in a fake encounter at Sonakhat
village under Tangla police station in Udalguri district 7 October. They are
Mrinal Rabha and Chandan Rabha of Baska district. According to local people
IOF personnel cordoned off Sonakhat village and fired bullets without
arresting them, but the IOF framed an absurd story that ULFA duo were asked
to surrender, but they fired at the IOF personnel who retaliated killing the
two on the spot. This barbaric killing of two ULFA cadres in the name of
anti-ULFA operation has sickened the masses of the locality. Huge public
protests expressed the resentment of freedom loving people of the locality
against this brutal murder.
In another incident the IOF killed Rajiv Saikia alias Raheswar Deka Baruah
of Nampur village under Demow police station in Sivasagar district, at
Luckily village under Borhat police station 7 October evening. Here also IOF
authorities described the same old story of encounter killing. According to
IOF the ULFA members were the first to open fire on an IOF patrol on its way
to the village. India, who publicize themselves as the protectors of
democracy and condemns ULFA as extremists, set the most notorious instance
of inhumanity. In protest of the barbaric killing by IOF, a 12-hour upper
Asom bandh was observed peacefully and successfully on 11 October. People
participated spontaneously to express their solidarity with the national
liberation struggle protesting against Indian military aggression. The bandh
was totally onserved in the 5 districts of Sivsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi
Anglong, Majuli and Lakshimpur of upper Asom. All the government,
non-government offices, markets, educational and business institutions
remained closed. Vehicles were off the roads. Production and drilling in
oilfields of Lakua, Geleki and Dimual of ONGC were also greatly affected.
Meanwhile IOF has started a new game of threatening ULFA family members of
dire consequences if they don't urge their offspring to join mainstream.
With this new move the IOF is generating tremendous pressure upon the ULFA
families.
India denounces ULFA whenever they get a chance 'for adopting violence.' But
what do we call the principle of killing unarmed ULFA members and innocent
people of Asom by India? Not a single day they stop killing unarmed members
of ULFA. They kill innocents as ULFA linked to explosions, killing, etc.
India has designed a state of terror by advocating military solution to the
Asom-India conflict and now they describe the prevailing security scenario
in Asom as the 'biggest challenge'. This sort of nasty Indian strategy
against the national liberation struggle will not see the face of light. The
masses have well realized India's dual policy of deceiving people in the
name of restoring peace in Asom. Instances are many, which reveal India's
strategy for ruination of Asom. But a civilized and integrated nation can
never be ruined by any immoral policy. The liberation of our Motherland from
Indian colonial occupation is inevitable.
Bonus hubbub in the tea industry ahead of Durga Puja

Like previous years the bonus pandemonium in the tea industry of Asom has
emerged with no disparity in this year also. The degree of unrest that has
been created regarding the lives of lakhs of workers engaged in the tea
gardens of Asom has grasped a new height due to these anomalies in Asom. Tea
garden labourers have been asking for the minimum 20 percent bonus which is
the rule of the Indian industrial sector. Though the workers were assured to
clear their bonus before 6 of this month but still more than 50 percent of
the gardens are yet to declare percentage of bonus. As such Durga Puja
celebration for the tea workers who wait and crave every year has become
uncertain. However, the labourers of tea gardens run by foreign capitalist
groups suffer from such irrational deprivation. But in Indian states of
Tamil Nadu and West Bengal workers enjoy 20 percent bonus besides other
facilities. Every year the same old reason of high transportation cost and
failure to get due price of tea in international tea markets are put forward
by the Owners Association and the workers are deprived of the due bonus. Of
late, the price of tea of Asom in international tea markets has again turned
upwards. In the last two years the price of per kilogram normal Asom tea has
hiked from Rs 54 to 74. Besides this, Asom tea has been regularly exporting
to Pakistan and in many new countries demand for Asom tea has also increased
considerably. Therefore, at present there is no valid reason of dilatoriness
on the part of Owners Association in paying bonus to the workers. But it is
difficult for the labourers of Asom to get even meager 10 percent or 15
percent bonus. Interestingly tea tycoons like Tata Tea and Williamson Magor
are also expressing inability of providing 20 percent bonus to the workers
who are operating most of the largest tea gardens in Asom. The Tea Auction
Board which is one of the main associates of the colonial exploiters has
been masterminding to push the tea industry of Asom into the world of
destruction. The attitude of depriving the workers of their due wages,
justifiable right of 20 percent bonus and other privileges clearly
replicates their evil intention.

Like all the other racial tribes of Asom, tea-tribe is also politically,
economically and socially exploited by Indian colonial rulers. Till today
neither the Tea Garden Owners' Association nor the colonial government have
shown any kind of cordiality for all-round uplift of this underdeveloped
tribe who are deprived of education, social development and even the least
modern convenience. But this very tribe had been used as a tool for
achieving power by every opportunist political leaders and parties who
pledge a lot during every election. The standard of the people of tea
gardens spreading in every nook and corner of Asom can't be inferred if not
perceived. The physical and mental developments of the children of the tea
tribe community are hampered because of low standard of food. Years after
years this exploited, humiliated, betrayed and deprived tribe has been
passing their days like aboriginals. About eighty percent of the tea tribe
community are by position can be termed proletariat and the mere reality is
that if these landless peoples are absent from work for a single day due to
ailment, their family has to starve which clearly displays the picture to
what extent the garden owners are exploiting the tea workers. The owners
association has created "surplus value" of tea and enjoyed profit by
exploiting the workers with minimum wage depriving them from due bonus and
other primary facilities. This is an age-old and traditional stratagem of
capitalism. Under this policy there can't be physical or mental development
of any people. There must be a practical relation between the rate of
processed tea in national and international markets and the percentage of
bonus and wage of labourers. Although Asom is considered the heart of
India's tea industry with the state accounting for about 55 percent of the
country's total annual production, condition of Asom tea industry remains as
it was. But India's tea industry is showing signs of resurgence with rise in
production and exports as well as prices firming up in the tea auction
market. The issues of improvement of quality of tea, rise in production and
welfare of tea workers have been deliberately ignored by Indian rulers. With
the colonial rulers in power and some of the profiteer politicians of the
tea-tribe community are also assisting the owners in solving their
arithmetic. Moreover a section of self-cantered intellectuals and media of
Asom are perceived to have taken the initiative to protect the interests of
the tea garden owners instead of protesting against the exploitation and
injustice of workers. As time elapsed, these tea workers have started to be
conscious of their exploited and deprived image because it is impossible to
keep people in perpetual darkness in the name of exploitation. This is a
common problem and assistance of people of every strata is extremely needed.

It is high time for all the exploited masses of Asom irrespective of caste,
creed or social status to unitedly build up strong resistance on the
economic front against Indian oppression and exploitation.
Organizations staged demonstration demanding rehabilitation of flood victim

According to government estimation more than 50 lakhs people in 21 different
districts of Asom have severely affected in the latest flood. But the Indian
authority is expressing its absolute reluctance towards the issues of
rehabilitation and adequate aid to the flood affected people. In protest of
government's negligence, KASS and NASS, two frontal democratic organisations
in Asom have staged demonstration infront of Deputy Commissioner Office of
Kamrup district and submitted an 18-point charter of demand to the Chief
Minister through the Deputy Commissioner. The demand includes rehabilitation
of flood affected people, immediate steps to solve flood and erosion
problem, free of cost food for the flood victim for at
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