[Assam] ulfa statement

[ulfa_ 1979April7]

SOME WAYS CONFUSING THE ‘PEACE PROCESS’
   
   
  JP Rajkhowa’s article ‘Some ways to revive the peace process’ carried on (date)’s edition of The Sentinel, Assam published on 23.09.2007 is at best a mixture of confusions typical of Asomiyas with Indian mind, particularly of ex-bureaucrats. They pose themselves to be very concerned about the mental agony and insecurity of our people. They blame ‘terrorism’ for all the ills in Asom. They say peace process should be restarted and violence, bomb blasts, etc., etc. should be stopped and condemned. What a fine cocktail of confusions to mislead our people.   
   
  However, this crop of so-called Asomiyas, in trying to become champions of peace, have only exposed their naivety, utter intellectual bankruptcy and ignorance about the crux of the Asom-India political conflict, which is restoration of Asom’s sovereign independence. They do not understand, or are simply ignorant of, for what purpose thousands of brave sons and daughters of Asom have joined the liberation struggle against Indian colonial occupation. They childishly think our freedom fighters have joined the struggle out of unemployment and poverty. Did Bhagat Singh and Subhas Chandra Bose fought against the British out of unemployment and poverty? On the issue of influx of foreigners into Asom, JP. Rajkhowa & Co. ridiculously think that only Bangladeshis are foreigners. To ULFA and the peoples of Asom, anybody who does not belong to Asom are foreigners. By this criteria Indians, like Bangladeshis, who came after 1947, 15 August are also foreigners to Asom.   
   
  Being ignorant of their own national identity and having lost their national character, it is not surprising that these anti Asom reactionary intellectuals should ask ULFA to abandon the ‘demand for sovereignty’. JP. Rajkhowa & Co. should know that ULFA, or for that matter the entire peoples of Asom, are not demanding anything from India. We are fighting for regaining our nation’s legitimate sovereignty and independence in order to build a new Asom where Asomiyas and all the ethnic communities alike shall coexist together on the basis of right to self determination. Sovereignty and independence is the core political issue on which our liberation struggle is hinged. Therefore, there cannot be any political solution sans sovereignty and independence. 
   
  Unless and until the core issue of sovereignty and independence is addressed, jumping to ‘peace process’ including ceasefire and modalities for ‘talks’ would be ‘putting the cart before the horse’. So for the ‘peace process’ to move forward, JP Rajkhowa & Co  should first put the horse before the cart. 
   
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