Sleeping son doesn't get any share in property (a popular proverb in Odia to emphasize that one must earn his share, by working hard, like others).
Majority of people are sympathetic to the sorry state of tribals and blame the governments for their sufferings. I , once a Government job aspirant-turned-private sector struggler, somehow have a different opinion, being aware of the hard works put forward by individuals, who believe in the "system" as opposed to "Governments"
I believe that the Government is there to build a system, where a qualified citizen can find "a" job as opposed to "the" (reserved) job and survive by utilizing his hard work and skills.
All these 60+ years, the tribals ran away from education (didn't pay attention) and now, when it is too late, they realised that 'they were left behind" even from the scheduled castes and upper caste poor citizens.
Some will put the blame on Government because of lack on infrastructure in tribals areas. I put the blame on tribals as they didn't think of quitting their native place.
States own the mines - but Center allots them based on recommendation of the CM. Had the tribals been studied "CIVICS" (abridged version of Indian public administration, government and politics) in school, they would have known about their rights in a democracy themselves, without depending on activists.
Some may mock my views saying that when tribals are worried about food, I am talking about education as if that would provide them a job. What is the benefit of such education, which can't provide a job ?
Yes there are advantages. Any one can easily deceive gullible people; communists, activists, Christian missionaries and Naxlites hunt 'tribal minds" because of whatever reasons, I failed to understand.
The CM-industrialist nexus usually brought/bring loss to state exchequer; the Communication minister RAJA -Industrialist caused 60000 crore loss to Central Government's treasury. PM is worried about his job and gave Raja a clean chit. Raja's spectrum scam money detoured to Karunanidhi's party or family. We know this for sure, may bark but can't bite in a weak legal system and a compromised CBI ;have to bite dust. What happened to the seized 1800 crore from Om Prakash Chautala's residence ?Any news ? no.. . after 5 years Jats elected him as leader and made him a powerful opposition leader.In another 5 years, he will be elected as CM. This is our proven system where Lalu, Jaya,Chautala, Mayawati and Mulayam can survive and Bangaru(s) are caught.
The "SYSTEM", which is managed by Government comes with the above kind of burden and we have to close our eyes and focus on the "SYSTEM" to survive.
How efficient the modern day Governments are ? and How a CM ends up in an industrialist's pocket ?
These are common sense, which average citizens know and hence don't look at Government to solve their problems. The far from the Government, the happier you are because you will love taking risks and grow with all kind of trouble caused by life. Most of educated, semi-educated and labors migrate to metros/big cities to kick-start their career, some times from a polythene slum.
A brilliant example would be our state and university employment exchanges. They were formed to provide the job seekers, interview call letters and had any one taken them seriously,waited for an interview call letter, would have died in hunger.
In Hyderabad, near Miyapur Chauraasta, there are thousands of polythene (tent) slums and I will bet, there won't be a single tribal. They may be scheduled castes and upper class poors. They migrated to a big city to to earn their bread and butter because there are huge apartment complexes nearby and there are people, who might hire them for babysitting or housekeeping/cleaning activities. Why can't the tribal activists motivte tribals to come out of the cage and live with the system, just like other slum dwellers ?
Tribals are also BPL people. but it appears that they are not smarter BPL people and hence can't think of living in the "system" (aka without Government). They didn't learn the very language, which was the basis of division of states in India. Even Malayalees and other Dravidian people could learn Hindi but tribals won't do that. Even during a Rajya Sabha debate, a tribal MP of Orissa, couldn't communicate his thoughts to then Science-technology minister Kapil Sibal; leader of Rajya Sabha B.J.Panda had to cover for him and rephrased the mind of the tribal MP. Is it difficult for a millionaire MP to enhance his communication skills ? International Call centers in India have got excellent training facility on communication and personality development. But, our so called tribal MP won't go for that;probably they are still waiting for a free government sponsored training !!. Not even ready for an on-the-job training, when he earns millions towards salary, perks and allowances.
An average healthy person, visits a doctor about 8 times in a year. If the doctor charges Rs. 50/- per visit - a spending of Rs. 400/- . In India, unlike USA, even medical stores can give prescription only drugs without prescription; the doctor's fee $1 is by passed. In USA, a standard doctor gets around $125 to $200 for writing a prescription. We think that once in a while spending $1 for a doctor from our pocket is too much and wait for Government to provide us socialised health care "free".
There is hunger - tribals are hungry. Some may not be getting two full meals. But, don't you think that they should share majority of the blame because they never came forward to work in a "system" and always waited for the "Government" to take care of them ?
Comments welcome ..
Thanks
Manoj Padhi
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:39 AM, G. Srinivas <dhimsa@gmail.com> wrote:
Crushed in the middle
Ramachandra Guha
As the Union government prepares to launch an offensive on Maoist revolutionaries, I am reminded of three conversations that I heard or had in Chhattisgarh in the summer of 2006. The first took place in the state capital, Raipur, at the home of the leading Congress politician, Mahendra Karma. Karma was the begetter of the Salwa Judum, a vigilante army that has been responsible for a wave of killings, rapes and lootings that has forced thousands of tribals into refugee camps.
In an interview with a citizens� group, Karma suggested that all means were fair in fighting an enemy as determined as the Naxalites. My colleague, E.A.S. Sarma, a retired civil servant legendary for his intelligence as well as his integrity, suggested that a wiser strategy would be to make adivasis partners in the development process. The state government had just sanctioned a slew of mining projects; why not allocate a substantial stake to the adivasis, as was permitted by Schedule V of the Constitution of India? Then the adivasis would place more faith in the government�s good intentions, and turn their back on the Maoists. Karma dismissed this as the utopian talk of �you intellectuals and human rights wallahs�.
The second conversation took place in a refugee camp on the banks of the Indravati river. Here, a Muria school-teacher told me, in Hindi, �Naxaliyon ko himmat nahin hai ki wo hathiyaron ko gaon ke bahar chhod kar hamare beech mein behes karen� (the Naxalites do not have the guts to leave their arms outside the village and have a reasoned discussion with us).
The conversation with Karma underscored the failures of the Indian State. As numerous studies have shown, the adivasis have gained least and lost most from six decades of political democracy and economic development. In terms of access to decent healthcare and education, they are worse off than Dalits. In terms of representation at the high levels of the state, they are worse off than both Dalits and Muslims. They have not merely been neglected, but more actively dispossessed. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the tribals lost their homes and lands to large dams and commercial forestry schemes. Now, under the guise of globalisation, they lose them to mining projects.
Their exploitation at the hands of the politician-contractor-industrialist nexus forced many adivasis into the waiting arms of the Maoists. Thus, while there was scarcely a Naxalite in Orissa a decade ago, the handing over of large tracts of tribal land to mining companies has provoked sharp conflict and an escalation of extremist activity in the state.
The remarks of the Muria teacher, meanwhile, underscored the authoritarian methods of the Maoists. They come into a village, call a meeting, stand with rifles at the ready and ask the tribals: �Now tell us whether you�re with us�. The support they receive is not always through a process of consultation � rather, it�s often compelled through fear. The Maoists also fetishise violence, killing petty government officials who can scarcely be termed �class enemies�, while subjecting so-called informers to kangaroo courts that order their limbs be amputated.
The third conversation was with an unlettered adivasi deep in the forests of Dantewada, who summarised the conflict between the State and Naxalites in these chillingly unforgettable terms: � �Hamein dono taraf se dabav hain, aur hum beech me pis gaye hain�. An altogether more prosaic rendition in English might be��Pressed and pierced from both sides, here we are, crushed in the middle�.
Viewed historically, a triple tragedy has been unfolding in central India, the unvarying feature of which is that it is always the adivasis who are the victims. The first tragedy began with the takeover of their forests by the British, and has continued since Independence with their further dispossession at the hands of both State and market. The second tragedy commenced with the onset of electoral democracy in India, where, as a powerless minority, the tribals have failed to activate the provisions of the Constitution designed to protect their rights and interests. The third tragedy commenced with the advent of the Maoists, whose path of armed struggle, while intensifying violence in the short-term, offers no hope of a long-term solution either.
With the refusal of the Maoists to lay down arms, and the Home Ministry�s decision to send in massive forces to quell them, there may yet be a fourth tragedy in the making. The obligation to prevent this lies with both the Maoists and the government. I have no way of reaching the former, but can, as a tax-paying and voting citizen, at least hope to address the latter. Rather than think in narrowly militaristic terms, our political class should consider constructive long-term measures to bring dignity to the tribals. Thus, state and central governments must put in place a ban on new mining schemes, and make tribals partners in the mines and factories already sanctioned. They must also implement health and education policies that allow tribals to compete on equal terms with the rest of the nation.
The social analyst Badri Raina recently wrote that �not a school, not a dispensary, not a policeman, not a land-revenue dispensation, not a government office, not a road, bridge or culvert, nor drinking water or assured supply of the barest modicum of food is to be found in [many parts of] Bastar, Dantewada, Koraput, Gadchiroli and so on.� Sending in fresh battalions with deadlier armaments will solve nothing if unaccompanied by a genuine desire to make amends for the neglect and abuse of adivasis by governments of all parties down the decades.
Ramachandra Guha is the author of India After Gandhi: The History of the Worlds Largest Democracy
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Even if the state is morally wrong as Nandini Sundar believes, than also democracy is rule of majority;not the rule of right. Barring a handful of leftists, the majority of political parties and people want Operation Green Hunt to continue.
PUCL and its American cousin ACLU - such liberal soft organizations are too much for citizens to digest. Civil liberties for killers !! They don't distinguish between a Terrorist, Naxlite and an ordinary criminal - believe that they will reform if captured live and put in jail.!!
Yesterday, Mr. Samuel Lakra blasted our "corrupt" COPs. From a TV footage, I noted that Naxal-hunting cops are out there to die and protect us, for a promised 20 Lakhs to their family, which many don't get; they get about 1/2 of that.
These COPs were not equipped with mine sweepers and were trusting their "eye".
Unlike Abharamic religions, we are nation of Wisdom and some one said - "Sathe Sathyem Samacharet".
The Government of India is going the right thing. Even Buddhadeba Bhattarchya appealed Center to hunt down the Naxals of West Bengal. These ignorant, arrogant and illiterate shitheads went far beyond our tolerance level and deserve to die.
That is why everyone speaks the flowing language of blood; in fact I personally want the to torture as well before PUCL activists and Dr. Binayk Sen if Chidambaram will permit me.
The Criminal Justice System is there for a reason. We are much wiser than Pakistan, who is fighting Taliban. I call upon Nandini Sundar to join our group and hate Naxlites.
Ask the people of SWAT valley of Pakistan whether they are better of now or were better of with Taliban !!
After a long tyranny of neglect, the State speaks in wartime euphemisms
Nandini Sundar
Sri Lankan style operations against the Maoists in central India have already begun. In fact, it isn't clear if they ever stopped after 2005, when the Salwa Judum herded thousands of villagers into camps. The only difference now is that war has been openly declared, in contrast to the government's fiction of a "people's movement". The talk of using airpower, even if in self-defence, is being accompanied by propaganda blitzes, such as a home ministry ad containing gruesome photos of people killed by the Maoists. Clearly meant to desensitise the public to the civilian carnage that could follow a paramilitary sweep, the ad's violent tone was also calculated to strike fear and signal the government's seriousness in acting against the Maoists. As if on cue to prove the government right, the Maoists committed their ghastly beheading of Francis Induwar, a police officer. Faced with two belligerent parties, what are ordinary citizens to do? For one, intellectuals—despite that word being the latest swear word for the government and media—must try and provide history and context to the situation. The Union home minister is talking of a "clear and hold" operation, after which he hopes to introduce development in the region. What he does not explain is what prevented development for 62 years or what hinders it in areas where the Naxalites are not active. Spending enormous resources on waging war rather than battling hunger—especially in a drought year—shows the government's perverse priorities.
In talking about regions in maoist control, the Prime Minister & home minister never mention one crucial word—justice.
At a recent conference with director-generals of police, the prime minister asked why Naxalism showed no signs of abating despite the deployment of 'Cobras' and other paramilitaries. The crucial word that neither the prime minister nor the home minister mention is "justice". While the home ministry spends taxpayers' money calling Naxalites "cold-blooded murderers", not a word is said about the hundreds of victims, including children and old people, murdered by the security forces and Salwa Judum vigilantes. These are citizens too, and their deaths are equally horrific. But no newspaper carries photos of them, no inquiry is held, their relatives get no compensation. Human rights activists are repeatedly called upon to condemn the Maoists, even if their statements are blacked out. However, I have yet to see one instance when the home minister has acknowledged, leave alone condemned, the increasing number of encounters faked by the police. You cannot speak of violence by one side while remaining silent on the other. When people are attacked and see no hope from the state, who else will they turn to but insurgents? If a rape victim complains to the SP asking for an FIR to be filed, and his only response is to actually ask the rapists for their explanation, what is she supposed to do? Such has been the practice in Chhattisgarh for the past five years. It is this which accounts for the massive growth (22 per cent by intelligence estimates) in recruitment by the Maoists since Salwa Judum began. When it comes to telling off Pakistan, both the prime minister and home minister reject the autonomy of non-state actors, with the prime minister noting that "it was the duty of their (Pakistani) government to ensure that such acts were not perpetrated from their territory". But in their own country, they support Salwa Judum vigilantism, despite findings by statutory bodies like the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights that the Salwa Judum and security forces have been responsible for widespread arson, rape, forced disappearances, suspect encounters and extra-judicial killings. The NHRC report on the Salwa Judum states that "villagers were even killed (no criminal cases were, however, either reported or registered). Though the State has taken action against spos in some cases... these...do not pertain to the violence let loose on innocent villagers during operations against Naxalites". Of course, the NHRC also lost a golden opportunity to ensure justice, and thereby peace, by allowing a biased police to whitewash the truth. To cite just one example of the NHRC's investigation: the death of Vanjam Mangu of Kotrapal. Villagers told the NHRC that he was killed by the CRPF and Salwa Judum in 2005 after being brought to the village. FIR 15/05 says he was a Naxalite killed in a police encounter. The NHRC, on the other hand, "finds" on the basis of "police records" and "Salwa Judum camp residents" that he was killed by Naxalites because his relatives had accepted government compensation (which is available only to victims of Naxalites and not to victims of Salwa Judum). It did not go into the basic discrepancies and ask how, in police records, he could be both a Naxalite and a person killed by Naxalites, or question how selective compensation was influencing the truth. In 'Operation Green Hunt', which took place in September 2005, despite the then DGP claiming (Hitavada, September 6, 2005) that 10 armed Maoists were killed in an encounter on September 2, FIRs registering it as a case of villagers from Hariyal Cherli being killed in police-Naxalite crossfire, and relatives saying they were all innocent villagers who were lined up and shot by the Naga battalion while fleeing a Salwa Judum attack, the NHRC has concluded that eight of them were killed by Naxalites. The current 'Operation Green Hunt' is equally suspect. A fact-finding by PUCL, PUDR and the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram has found that at least seven innocent adivasis were killed from Gachanpalli and Palachelma villages on September 17. The encounter in which security personnel died took place elsewhere. Another round of eight civilian killings took place on October 1 in village Gondpad, in which several young boys were picked up from Mukudtong and other villages, and several houses were burnt. While journalists in Dantewada have always been a threatened lot, the West Bengal government has done even better by sending policemen posing as journalists to arrest Chhatradhar Mahato. Not only do such strategies put all journalists working in combat zones at risk, they ensure that it is the insurgents who pre-emptively shut off access to the media. Democracy cannot work without a free flow of independently verifiable information from all sides. When the home minister says that the Maoists are "the gravest challenge to our way of life", he must clarify which "way of life" he means—the right of ministers to live in five star hotels while 50 per cent of Indians are below the poverty line in terms of calorie intake, the right of companies to fraudulently and forcibly acquire land, the right of farmers to commit suicide? If "our" way of life depends on exploiting the resources that the adivasis of Chhattisgarh live on, taking their lives falls perfectly into place. For many years, the Naxalite movement was seen as a socio-economic problem. By ignoring this aspect of it completely, and instead repeatedly terming it the "greatest national security threat", the government has only added to that security threat. This is precisely what political scientist Jef Huysmans calls the "performative function of security labelling".
'Naxal-infested': this description reduces maoists to vermin, and thus allows state killings to be taken as a mere necessity.
In Chhattisgarh, even the Supreme Court's demand for action on the NHRC recommendations, including compensation and rehabilitation for displaced villagers and moving security forces out of schools, are being ignored by a government confident of its own impunity. Schools and ration shops do not function in the villages, even though a majority of people have now gone back from the camps and desperately need these services. In Andhra Pradesh, the internally displaced people from Chhattisgarh are suffering from Grade III malnutrition. In their case, there is no lack of area domination. Even if the government wrests back Maoist territory, the fact that it will work through the same corrupt, authoritarian police force and the same exploitative traders who are currently its mainstay will mean that discontent is bound to revive. The language of counter-insurgency sees "success" when populations are controlled, regardless of the human cost. As insurgents get dehumanised as vermin (as in the phrase "Naxal-infested"), the civilians get reduced to statistics, enabling displacement and death to be seen as an administrative necessity, a simple case of "broken eggs", as a senior government official recently put it, rather than a fundamental violation of citizens' rights. Besides, since it is mostly just the ordinary CRPF jawan who dies, the government is happy to choose a military option rather than dialogue. The Maoists follow the same dehumanising practices, when they see nothing morally wrong in killing the security forces. Their language reeks of blood-sacrifice, their own and others. Their intolerance towards other groups working in their area and their disregard for the consequences of their actions on ordinary citizens hardly makes them a model of alternative democracy. If Sri Lanka is the current flavour of counter-insurgency, the government would also be wise to remember the US debacle in Vietnam and now in Iraq and Afghanistan. And if the Maoists have China as their model, they must equally think of Peru, where the violence imploded on the very people they were claiming to represent. Certain wars can never be won with force, but only with justice and reconciliation, dialogue not death.
(The author is a professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.)
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Operation Green Hunt:: Naxals just ran out of luck and in the verge of getting erased ? Let us join hands to erase them and help good to prevail over evil.
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Posted By: manojpadhi on:10/12/2009 12:19:38 AM
After the Govt. of India's declaration of the 'war-on-left-wing-terror' or the 'Operation Green Hunt', the internet forums are flooded with mails and petitions from demented human right activists, PUCL activists and CPI-ML political wing, soliciting public support. But, such ingenuous appeals from left wing sympathizers, ignoring their heinous killing spree of our COPs, ambush attempt against CMs, went past me like galley smoke. I grinned for a while, recalling my 3 year old letter to Orissa CM (Ask Center to Kill Maoists [3]) to hunt down these left wing radical demons, who claim the status of tribal-Robin Hood and yet block or destroy whatever development activities proposed by our Governments in those areas. They threaten the contractors, not to undertake any construction in those areas.
Hope, I am not being rude here. Trying to back away from my levity, I pondered, what made this happen; for me it was a dream comes true. Since last couple of weeks, Mr. Chidambaram has been issuing press statements against Naxal Terror, as if he is burrowing through my mind and picking my words. A centrist Union Home Minister in a liberal congress Government is doing, what the right wing Shri L.K.Advani didn't think of doing. Had I been, the Union Home Minister, I would have done it as soon as I took my oath; but it is better late than never. All praise of the Union Home Minister.
The Operation Green Hunt is analogous to Pakistan Army's recent crackdown on the Taliban in SWAT valley; the so called students of Islam, unlike of tough Naxal guys, were started running parallel Governments in SWAT Valley and even established their own Sharia courts; a state with in a state.
Earlier, in Pakistan's SWAT valley, all half-hearted crackdowns against Taliban radicals had proven unsuccessful and the Government of Pakistan bought a truce and agreed to their demands to establish Sharia laws with in their territory. However, with pressure from America, the radicals were hunted and ousted from the Valley with maximum force.
Now the Government of India is ready with such Maximum force. It is also a live training for Indian Air Force as they have to deploy IAF Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) over Naxlite affected dense forests for snooping their activities/movements. The Israeli made UAVs have got 12 to 20 hour endurance and with a satellite link these can be controlled from Delhi. Some UAVs have sensors which can penetrate forest cover. The IAF has two types of drones, the Searcher II with 12-hour endurance and a 300-km range and the Heron which can fly out to 300 km range and remain airborne for 20 hours. Both drones are equipped with an array of day and night sensors and cameras to pick up ground movement
Besides IAF, for our paramilitary ground forces, it also will be a hunting expedition. In USA moose hunting is permitted in Alaska and even hunting vacation packages are available in other states. In India, before independence, usually Kings and British were privileged to go on hunting expeditions. After Independence, Indians have long been deprived of such hunting expeditions as these are banned; but now Naxal-Hunting is authorized by Cabinet Committee of Security. For BSF, it is going to be both - a patriotic act-cum-hunting excitement. No more dummy targets.
CPI-ML's Statement [1]
Now let us discuss CPI-ML's statement against Operation Green Hunt.
They say "War on the people cannot bring peace to Bastar".
Operation Green Hunt is war against people? Isn't it inconceivable?
Let us buy their dual categorization of India – CPI-ML perceives Indian democracy has got two actors. The Government being one actor, the other one is people. So they interpret – Government's war against Naxites as Government's war against people. Fair enough.
Now, let us apply the same measuring stick to the violence by people actors against Government and other people. i.e. bad people (ASURA/DANAVA) vs good people (MANAVA) and bad people (ASURA) vs Government (AUTHORITY OF KING). We are a Hindu Nation and for such a case shouldn't we follow what Lord. Ram and Krishna did or told?
Have not the so called "(bad) people" been engaged killing our COPs and have been trying to show the Government that "beware of tough bad guys" ?
Don't we have a Criminal Procedure Code out there to deal with such tough "bad guys", who are not only COP killers but also once tried to ambush Chandra Babu Naidu ? Is not it legal for our COPs to shoot at these tough "people" in self-defense, if these tough people fire back at COPs, with their illegally acquired weapons ?They are supposed to surrender if they don't want to be shot at.
CPI-ML also says "Disbanding Salwa Judum and ensuring rights of adivasi people is the only road to peace".
How laughable is this ingenuous statement? When the Union Government is out there to fight a full fledged war, with a time line of 3 years, what role Salwa Judum can play? It's no more between Salwa Judam and Naxlites. In worst case Salwa Judum can become police informers and point a laser gun to the Naxlite hideout so that IAF can target a laser guided bomb. In a best case scenario for CPI-ML, Central Forces may not take service of Salwa Judam. With or without Salwa Judam, there is a scheduled war, which can prolong up to 3 years. It is inconceivable at this time, how disbanding Salwa Judam is the only road to peace.
So what is then the real road to peace? Let the Naxlites surrender, spend couple of years in jail and we build the road to peace.
CPI-ML is also upset by the advertisement campaign by Government, which says – Naxlites are "nothing, but cold-blooded murderers."
For Naxlites, those good old golden days are just over, when they were orchestrating surprise attacks against ill-equipped, no-so-well trained weaker state police; now as camel, they have to deal with the mountain - the paramilitary forces with air support from Indian Air Force; finally the tall tough camels have to face off with the mountains, unless they give up their false illusion and pride of superiority and toughness.
The mighty LTTE boss Prabhakaran couldn't sustain the onslaught of Sri Lankan Army and Air-Force; our so called tribal Robin Hoods "tough guys" are getting ready to face off with Indian Air Force. Is that really smart move? Are they tougher than IAF guys?
We will see that in next couple of episodes of "HUM LOG".
Once the funds and foods line of Naxalites are cut off, how many days can they survive in jungle? On ground, the sniffer dogs will be after them and from sky IAF drones. I am not here to frighten our tough Naxlite bad guys but just trying to recall that, how former Iraqi president Saddam Hussian was captured from tiny cellar at a farmhouse near his home town, after a tip-off from a member of his own clan. In bad times, even one's own shadow doesn't wish to walk besides the body.
That said, I would like to call upon all the Naxal Sympathizers, Human Right Activists , Prabhat Kumar (CPI-ML ) , Dr. Binayak Sen, Medha Patkar, Leftist leaders, Liberals to stop advising the Government, which is obliged to protect the life and property of its innocent citizens and have to do whatever it takes to do; Pakistan already did it in Swat Valley to save its citizens from the Taliban Radicals and this is not some thing new.
Human rights are for humans and ordinary criminals, who commit petty crimes as opposed to organized crimes. Your "tough guys" are determined to intimidate state COPs by indulging in the gruesome killing of Inspector Francis Induwar and to me it appears that, they are ready for their life's last face-off, to die for the Marx and Lenin; the Red Jihad.
Unlike, Islamic (Green) Jihad, where Jihadis, get a chance to romance with pretty girls in heaven, your tough guys ( Red Jihadis ) may not get any such thing. So, in stead of ill-advising Government of India, please offer your good services to negotiate an unconditional surrender of the tough bad guys or peoples.
As you can see, too much toughness has proven dangerous for Naxals. Had this war been initiated by the right wing BJP and you all could have gotten a chance to promulgate about a – "right wing conspiracy theory". Now, no Muslims are involved either. Naxal hunting expedition is initiated by a Centrist Union Home Minister of a Liberal Political Party.
As you can see, for Naxals "WAQT BURA HAI"; both the Government and people are against Naxals. If you people harp on against Government, citing human right violations against your tough barbarians, you too will lose your credibility, like CPI-M/CPI who are widely dubbed as agents of China.
You all are wise and senior peoples. I hope, you will understand that Naxals just ran out of luck and in the verge of getting erased. Let us join hands to erase them and help good to prevail over evil.
[1] Statement by CPI (ML) - Liberation
Halt paramilitary offensive in Chhattisgarh
Halt Operation Green Hunt
War on the people cannot bring peace to Bastar
Disbanding Salwa Judum and ensuring rights of adivasi people is the only road to peace
New Delhi, September 20
The paramilitary offensive launched in Bastar by CoBRA battalions along with State police is a matter of grave concern for all those who seek the return of peace in the region. The experience of counter-insurgency offensives in other parts of the country as well as that of the past few years in Chhattisgarh itself have clearly shown that paramilitary cleansing operations never bring peace or end militancy. In effect, such operations have invariably spelt a war on the people, with mass scale violations of human rights, and have been quite ineffective in checking military actions by Maoists or insurgent groups.
The UPA Government, by sponsoring a militaristic offensive in Bastar and backing up the Chhattisgarh Government in the patronage of a private militia (the Salwa Judum), is not even heeding the recommendations of the Expert Committee appointed by the Planning Commission. In its report submitted in early 2008, this Committee had explicitly counseled against ineffective militaristic solutions, pointing instead to a "socio-economic malaise" caused by States failure to ensure basic Constitutional entitlements to the poorest and most deprived of people.
In a highly irresponsible manner, the Home Ministry is accompanying its offensive with screaming ads displaying photographs claimed to be victims of naxalites who, the ad claims are "nothing, but cold-blooded murderers." Civilian killings by Naxalites are indefensible. But killings of innocents by the State, in order to brand them as extremists in death, is surely a far more heinous offense. The Home Ministry is silent on the numerous encounters in Bastar, where villagers have identified the victims as innocent adivasis rather than dreaded naxalites. The Ishrat Jehan case has emphasized that encounters which are yet to proved genuine by a judicial enquiry are all too likely to be fake. Are fake encounters not cold-blooded murders? An estimated 2 lakh adivasi people of Bastar have been rendered homeless since the launch of the Salwa Judum offensive in 2005. There have been several charges of rape and loot against leaders of the Salwa Judum.
What passes for the counterinsurgency operation in Chhattisgarh is clearly nothing but a war on the people.
The only road to peace in Bastar, in this situation, can be for the State and central overnments to immediately put an end to the war on the people by private militia (Salwa Judum) and paramilitary; to ensure the return of the displaced adivasis to their villages; and guarantee of their rights to land, livelihood and life.
Prabhat Kumar,
For CPI(ML) Central Committee
Communist Party of India (ML) Liberation CPI(ML) U-90 Shakarpur Delhi - 110092 Phone: 91-11-22521061 Fax: 91-11-22442790 Web-site: www.cpiml.org
[2] The Liberal appeal
2nd October 2009, Gandhi Jayanti
We are deeply concerned that the Government of India might use air power against its own citizens. We condemn violence in all its forms, and by all parties, and are of the strong opinion that no resolution of any issue can be achieved through military means. There must be dialogue so that the basic issues that affect citizens such as food, health, education, and employment can be addressed. Above all, there can be no peace without justice.
We demand a ceasefire between the Government of India, the respective state governments and the CPI (Maoist), and peace talks. The Government must initiate talks. The Maoists must respond. We, as citizens and concerned people are willing to help in whatever way possible.
Justice Rajendra Sachar, People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
Medha Patkar, National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)
Chittaranjan Singh, PUCL Uttar Pradesh
Kavita Srivastava, PUCL Rajasthan
Anil Chaudhury, Peace and Insaf
Bhupinder Singh Rawat, Jan Sangharsh Vahini
Gabrielle Dietrich, NAPM
Nandini Sundar, Campaign for Peace and Justice in Chhattisgarh (CPJC)
Sukla Sen, Ekta (Committee for Communal Amity)
Dr SP Udaya Kumar, anti-nuclear activist
[3] E-Mail Reply Letter from Orissa CM; see the date and subject line
Copy forwarded to the following authority for appropriate action.
Principal Secy., Home Department, BHUBANESWAR:
Special Secretary to Chief Minister
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Andhra: 800 missing, 4.5 lakh evacuated Karnataka: 132 dead, 1 lakh houses destroyed Goa: Over 250 houses collapse under heavy rains Orissa: 40,000 marooned in flash floods Maharashtra: Hundreds left stranded 6 choppers, 250 boats in Andhra rescue ops
Dear Readers:
Every country in this earth has to face the wrath of nature; this is inevitable.
Even the lone Super Power United States has to face the wrath of hurricanes and tornadoes every year; they even create a pool of names for such forthcoming disasters. Had it been possible to destroy the so called "eye" of these hurricanes by a nuclear bomb, they would have done that already. Unfortunately, they can't.
But of late Bill Gates & a dozen of scientists have registered a patent for a "Hurricane calming Technology". Click To read
Where there is a will, there is a way. Last year after a flood Orissa demanded 2500 crores; center helped with 100+ crores. Congress led Centre don't have money to deal with disasters but they can divert the river linking money to NREGA for creating dummy local project to generate short-term employment. NREGA projects are analogous or equivalents to the student projects or dummy projects of IT Industry, which are not revenue-fetching projects but keep the bench-engineers busy and gain some practical skills.
In 10 years, the amount we are going to spend , in aftermath of floods, could be sufficient for a National River Linking Project. Our CIVIL Engineers are capable of development of both long term and short term plans to deal with floods. But, for Ms. Sonia Gandhi, NREGA (Vote grabbing ) scheme was more important than Vajpayee's River Linking. Rs. 60000 crore farmer loan waiver was important than calming the river and utilize their water to improve irrigation water availability. Tamil Superstar Rajnikant had donated 1 Crore for the river-linked project after due appreciation.
But, I wouldn't blame Congress because they are liberals , pro-socialists. They have been short sighted since last 60 years, that's why India has to wait for a Vajpayee to invest heavily on infrastructure projects such as National Highway, Golden quadrilateral and PM's Gram Sadak Yoyona. In a poor country, poor people wants every thing , even a job, from Government. Any party which will talk sense will be designated "anti-poor", however visionary they are. The long term benefits of a multi-billion dollar River Linking Project would far outweigh the annual cumulative emergency flood expenses. In stead of waiving 60000 crore farmer loan, if the same amount were utilized for irrigation improvement across the nation, wouldn't that be better.
If you are an Indian Citizen and concerned about the sorry state of citizens and getting appeal of donations to PM's CM's relief fund every year - it is your judgement. The policy of the Government is responsible for the flood. Had there been any effort by the Union Government, like Bill Gates, to try a plan to link the rivers, however absurd that may they sound to certain far left liberals, I wouldn't have blamed them.
But, this has been a fashion. Every year millions of people will be affected by flood. States will demand 3000 crore more from Center and Center will pay about < 10 % of the estimated damage. Add in to that the salary of the resources and efforts of volunteers to deal with it.
In America, thousands of sand bags are kept in possible flood affected areas to minimise the impact of flood. If you are from a flood affected area, go an look out for such sand bags in your village, town or district ? Don't be surprised, if there are none. Neither they have any plan to deal with it nor allocate money for it.
Did you vote for Congress because you are a Muslim to feel safe and now affected by flood ? Don't complain - deal with it
Did you vote for Congress because you have got 90 days NREGA Payment and now affected by flood ? Don't complain - deal with it
It is a trade-off. You want to live in a better and prosper India, reject the short term vote grabbing schemes of liberal Governments, which includes Muslim appeasement, SC/ST appeasement. Mohammad Azharuddin, the match fixer MP, not only get elected but was sent to villages to solidify the SC/ST Vote bank of Congress on Gandhi Jayanthi day. Don't buy the Rs 2/- kg rice unless you are widow with no income or an ageing old man with no income.
It is the duty of the Government to create opportunities, environments for profit making enterprises in your locality , which will create jobs for locals. Conservative Governments across the world follow this policy, while liberals think that tax the rich and distribute them among poor for free (Rice Kg. 2/- ) and raise their expectations from Government. e.g. If Karunanidhi gives a Color TV to family for free, expect a bike or car from Jayalaitha or next election expect some thing else from Karunanidhi. When you give your vote for a color TV, where the money will come for linking the rivers ? Your free color TV and your tiny house may become victim of flood.
So, if your country is in bad (Congress) hands and still you are not aware of it, it is time to wake up - please don't complain. If you haven't voted Congress, you did a good job and at least not a partner in the crime of abandoning the river linking scheme.
There are consequences for bad decisions; it is important to understand the long term adverse affects of socialist and liberal policies, which you have been enjoying so far. So please deal with it now yourself.
Thanks
Manoj Padhi
But,
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