[Assam] Assam-Naga conflict

[Chan Mahanta]

Dear BK:


>The colonial legal framework certainly provides due process of law..

*** From your own experiences as a part of the system and your 
educated observations since then, can you shed some light on WHY  the 
"--guilty cannot be punished?" Not just in this instance, but in 
every other case of wrong doing, be it by the ranks of the citizenry, 
but even the ranks of those who are in charge of upholding the law of 
the land and the law-makers themselves?

Somewhere there seems to be a serious problem here, isn't there? If 
so where is it? And who is responsible for fixing it?

I ask the question with all seriousness. It is THE CRUX of the issues 
we quarrel over everyday, as we have been for decades.  But few seem 
to be able to put their fingers on the problem. Your credible 
explanation  would educate a lot of our peers, not just in this 
forum, but in Assam, just like in India, foundering in a sea of 
ignorance and confusion, even the best of the desi-knowledge-brigades 
that are taking the world by a storm.


>India takes pride as one of the most successful  sovereign 
>parliamentary democracies in the world.

*** So it does. But do you think it is  deserving of such laurels, 
from what you see and read about day in and day out? Would such 
laurels and accolades, whether bestowed by the knowledgeable or self 
adorned, salve the injuries of those who are victims of the 
dysfunctional state of the state?

Regards.

c










At 10:34 AM -0400 9/25/07, BBaruah at aol.com wrote:
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>He authors of this well researched article find the roots of these 
>inter-state boundary disputes in the North-east in the colonial 
>legal framework which helped the plantations, coalmines and 
>oilfields  in the Brahmaputra valley and along the foothills of 
>Nagaland  (presently coupled with  deployment of excessive military 
>power).
>
>But is not it all history now?  India takes pride as one of the most 
>successful  sovereign parliamentary democracies in the world. What 
>prevents India from writing a  new Constitution  doing away with the 
>much-maligned colonial legal framework? The authors conclude that 
>"In a milieu rife with ambiguities, the manner in which the state 
>and civil society organisations are seeking  to establish order is 
>dangerous." If it be so, why do our intelligentsia fail to clarify 
>the ambiguities which confound us, the dangers that put lives in 
>jeopardy? I would regard the media to be part of this process.  Is 
>not it the function of the intelligentsia to point the finger at 
>them  instead of casting stereotyped inane  criticism? More than 
>anything we need to be pragmatic.
>
>Two innocent business men lost their lives at the hands of the 
>security  personnel;  why can't the  guilty be prosecuted? ".    The 
>colonial legal framework certainly provides due process of law..
>
>Bhuban
>
>
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