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 Amresh Choudhry,Faridabad | Complaint against illegal and unauthorized construction on parking under stilts |
| Pledge appeal | Posted By: amreshchoudhry76@gmail.com on:11/11/2009 9:46:12 PM |
Dear Sir,
I am a resident of flat no 410,Saarang Residency,Plot No-GH4,Sec-21C Part-III,Faridabad.Haryana-121001.On my return from office at 7:15P.M on 6/11/2009 I was shocked to see construction work taking place at my allotted Car Parking space. Upon my enquiry I was told that Kirtan Bhawan is being made. When I objected to it they said that if I have problem in parking my Car, they have other vacant parking spaces which they will allot to me. I kept on waiting for proper response till Saturday. After getting no response from the society governing body, Sunday morning I approached other flat owners whose parking space has also been curtailed for this activity. And to my surprise like me none of them were neither informed nor consulted by the society governing body. And also no meeting was called to decide upon this. Seven executive members have decided on their own.I along with other affected flat owners were neither informed of the meeting nor of the decision of constructing this kirtan bhawan.
Sunday morning I stopped the mason & workers from continuing with the construction work and left for some personal work. Thereafter I got a call from Mr Rajeev Mehta(Flat No-109) and was made to speak with Mr Prem Dewan (The President of society governing body) who said that I can't stop the workers from continuing their work and the kirtan bhawan will be built with or without my consent. On my return I met the governing body members and strongly objected to this unauthorized/illegal construction taking place. When I confronted them they told me that it is for the benefit of all and it is not being made by the society welfare fund. Few of them are getting it constructed from their own pocket money. And they apologized for not informing me beforehand.I asked them to call a general body meeting to know who all has given their consent for constructing kirtan bhawan on my parking space. Meeting was decided for 8:00P.M on Sunday 8/11/2009 but neither did anybody turned up for the meeting nor did anybody bothered to inform me about the postponement or cancellation of the meeting. I just happened to meet Mr Prem Dewan & Mr Suresh who were busy getting signatures of other flat members for this activity. When I asked them what happened to the general body meeting they said it couldn't be organized as people were busy with other activities.
Yesterday morning I sent SMS to all fellow residents about this problem.On my return from office around 7:30P.M I got a call from security guard at gate that Mr Prem Dewan wants to meet me near the gate.I reached there and met Mr Prem Dewan,Mr Jain,Mr Maini,Mr Bihari Lal,Mr Rajeev mehta's father and two more society members.There they spoke to me very rudely and told me that if I don't keep quiet they will boycott me,they will throw me out of the society and will also not allow my car to enter society which they have done today by stopping my driver at the gate.Mr Prem Dewan also told me that pistols and swords will come out if will continue opposing their construction work.
Despite my strong protests and the objections made by the flat owner of 310 over phone(he is at present in Kargil) to the President of the Society Governing Body construction work is going on in full swing;it is almost complete.
And after yesterdays incident I am afraid that Mr Prem Dewan,Mr Maini,Mr Jain and others may harm me and family.If anything happens to me and family Mr Prem Dewan,Mr Maini & Mr Jain should be held responsible.
I have already given a written complaint to S.I Mr Balbir Singh of Ankhir Chowki on 10/11/2009 evening he spoke to President Mr Prem Dewan in front of me and told him to stop the construction work and to come to the Chowki on 15/11/2009 at 10:A.M but the construction work hasn't stopped. On 11/11/2009 morning once again I called at the Ankhir Chowki landline no 0129-2417494 and spoke to Munshi Mr Arjun he assured me that work will be stopped but it continued.Later at 9:26P.M I called again at the chowki landline number and spoke to Mr Satbir and told him that the President is trying to finish off the construction work asap as the work at the construction site was going on at that time also.He did send one constable to meet me he came to meet me had a look around the construction site and went away without stopping the worker at the construction site.It seems that the police been bribed by the society President.
Therefore I request you to kindly give coverage to this event.Your intervention will help us in stopping the unauthorized/illegal construction work and to remove the encroachment from our allotted parking space. This is not only violation of my parking space but also of approved building master plan. How a structure could be developed on space approved for Car Parking?
CC:
1) To the Administrator HUDA Faridabad,Plot No-129.HUDA Complex,
Sector: 12, Faridabad.
2) To The Executive Engineer (Vigilance)HUDA Faridabad,Plot No-129.
HUDA Complex, Sector 12, Faridabad.
3) To The Registrar,Cooperative Societies HUDA Faridabad.Haryana.
3)To The President Saarang Residency & to the society notice Board.
Thanking You.
With Regd's
Amresh Kumar
Flat No:410,Saarang Residency
9810925629. --You try to negotiate, but the intruder is in no mood to talk. His intention is murder.
You have seconds to decide. What do you do?
For many, the answer is clear. You fight to save your family. And most of us would call that self defense. Most Christians would agree that any action would be not only morally permissible, but also morally required.
Case-2:For hours you have attempted to extract the life-saving information from him, but to no avail. The last option is one you believe will work: water-boarding, but you have only a few minutes to decide. What do you do?
Again, for most of us, the answer is clear. You do what you have to do to save those innocent lives, which in this case means water-boarding the terrorist. You are saving other people's families.
Note, that the intent of the interrogators was not to cause pain to the detainees but to save lives. So, any thing CIA and Military have done to extract information, from the people who dare to become a suicide human bomb, is Okay.
Dear Sharanya ji
Mr Padhi is carrying on a long tradition of caste discrimination which has
now found its western counterpart in rightwing racism. This tradition puts
the blame on victim- whether it be hers fate to be born in a untouchable
family or with a black skin color. See the focus on destiny (born with). A
part of larger status quo tradition.
Also note the examples provided - "*For an instance, one comes from USA foropportunity and he misses that *"
a scheduled high school reunion after 25 years, a once in life time
A person so removed from reality of daily Bandhs and disruptions in India-
and the realities of life of Indian people - specially the poor- what can
one say? A person sits in his gated community in some suburb of USA,
dreaming his "all American dream" and trying to impose that on his
"imagined" homeland. And wastes everyone's time with his inanities.
Even in USA these people are considered the lunatic fringe (the birthers,
the neo-cons, the rush Limbaugh fans). I wonder how remote are they from our
realities.
KundanYou are so blinded by your love for the BPL farmers and tribals that you forgot to understand that the people about whom Manas talks are the same farmers and tribals whom you so much love! The only difference is, he sees their reality with his eyes open and you look at them through your America-made tinted glasses!And if you had surfed through all channels broadcasting the train detention for 5 precious hours (sic!) then all of your 'poor elite passengers' whom you so empathise with never even stated one single word against the PCPA actvists. Time and again, everyone interviewed from the driver to the little boy, stated upfront to the media that the activists were well behaved, gave them food and water and did not harm them. Some passengers even empathised with the activists and said they were sad about the torture being faced by tribals in Lalgarh because that is what the actvists explained to the passengers after they detained the train. Now should you say that all those passengers who stated before the media were Maoist sympathisers, human rights activists or simply anti-nationals ?And you talk about Maoists being insensitive to public convenience. So perhaps that self-gloating loathesome Minister who stops all traffic from plying on busy roads on working days because he has to rush to Parliament for which he is already one hour late very concerned about public convenience ? And what about the Minister who makes all flights wait for two hours at Bhubaneswar because he cannot arrive on time for a private flight to Delhi after a scheming and plotting politicians' meet ? Look at his concern for public !LET ME COMMENT ON THE FEW LINES STATED BY YOU BELOW :"As a Republican, neither I am jealous about Ambanis not sorry about the state of tribals, who acted irresponsibly; I am a well wisher of all BPL farmers and tribals. We are born with our own destiny,make our own decisions, do hard work and live with the good or bad
consequences. If a tribal or an Odisha farmer, who committed suicide decides to go for 4 kids, without owning any land or any steady income, that was his choice to remain poor for generations, like (nuclear) poor fission. Why blame Republicans because they don't want to redistribute/waste our wealth (tax) on a section of people, who reproduced irresponsibly ? What life they can give to their 4 kids by being alive or committing suicide ? Tribal advocates fighting for their cause - can they please let the readers know - what is the average number of kids in a tribal family ? When engineers working in metros and making Rs. 50,000 per month go for 1 or 2 kids, why the farmers and tribals are going for 4 kids without any income ? Because Rs. 2/- kg rice is available at tax payers money, which otherwise would have utilized on the salary of a primary education teacher. Next birth, I may be a farmer or tribal; there is nothing wrong to be tribal. but instead of accepting their BPL status, when they become jealous about the VIPs of Rajdhani Express,under the bad influence of communist ideology, there is a serious problem out there."
1. Before you reprimand the tribal and the farmer for having 4 kids ask the Prime Minister why even today about 4 out of 7 children born to a villager survive beyond the age of six ? All of the 4 children of the tribal whom you so despise would not see teenage unlike your own children who gobble a tablet at the slightest run of the nose.Think about why the tribal and farmer has 4 children - because he does not know how many of them will really go into adulthood2. Do you really believe all of us make our own decisions ? That the farmer decided he did not want land and so on ? Was it the farmer's decision to drink pesticide and commit suicide or was he pushed into that desperation ? Did a non-tribal land grabber cheat the tribal into mortgaing his land or did the tribal decide to give it away to the non-tribal absentee landlord ? Do you think the tribal activists of PCPA decided that they wanted the police batons on their backs and bullets in their heads ?3. Let me remind you that the teacher's salary has seen increments in the last two Pay Commissions while rates of essential commodities have not seen any growth - you forgot that there is negative farm growth the world over! And who deprived the farmer and the tribal from their income ? Is it not the corporate land grabbers and the resource hungry industries which ate into tribals' and farmers' livelihoods without paying even a pittance in return ? And mind you, tax payer is also the farmer and the tribal. In fact even the Income Tax guys admit that a greater percentage of the poor people pay taxes more regularly than the rich so it is not only your rupee that feeds the farmer. It is their own contributions. Perhaps you should stop paying taxes - you are actually feeding farmers and their kids !4. How full of jealousy and insecurity you sound when you say that tribals are jealous of the Rajdhani travellers. They did not go to grab the riches of the passengers. Had they been under that motive they would have looted. They did not even carry guns as per all the passengers' and the driver's statements! They went to show people like you what a tribal, cheated and cornered, with its back to the wall can do. And I will repeat that no passenger had a word of anger or vengeance for the tribal activists. Please go back to your TV and review all the footages of the train detention.Best wishes to you for carrying on your relentless baiting of public opinion through e-based armchair activism in favour of elites.Sharanya.
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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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Why Everyone Speaks The Flowing Language Of Blood
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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Manoj Padhi | 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. |
| Blog | 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
From cmo@ori.nic.in
Subject: ASK CENTRE TO KILL MAOIST
Sir ,
Your communication addressed to the
Hon'ble Chief Minister has been forwarded
to the following authority for appropriate
action. Their E-Mail Id. is furnished below.
Authority : Principal Secy., Home Department, BHUBANESWAR
E-Mail Id : homesec@ori.nic.in
Computer Id : 966
With regards,
Yours faithfully,
Special Secretary to Chief Minister
Memo No. ___1738____/ CM Date : _16_/08_/2006
Copy forwarded to the following authority for appropriate action.
Principal Secy., Home Department, BHUBANESWAR :
Special Secretary to Chief Minister
