While I hold my opinions on the matter, may I ask what you found ridiculous in the report Alpana :-)?
BTW, the report seems to be from Ram Dhar's "[Assam] NDTV hindi program - discussion about Kokrajhar incident, illegal migration" post. So it could be surmised that it was prepared by some Hindiwalla, not exactly some Kharkhowa anti-Indian type :-). Buty I could be wrong about that. On Jul 29, 2012, at 11:57 PM, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote: > How ridiculous! I am not sure if this is an opinion or quotes from somewhere > else. > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Rajen Barua <baru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> The Center is Responsible for Ethnic Violence in Assam >> The ethnic violence in Assam should be an eye opener to GOI and to all in >> Assam. Assam has about 3% of India's total population but has 140 different >> ethnic groups compared to India;s total about 600 total ethnic groups. The >> significance is clear when we realise that this 3% population of Assam is >> carrying about 25% of India's ethnic burden resulting in about 12 times more >> ethnic stress in Assam compared to the rest of India. I donot see that this >> point has been realised and presented in proper perspective by any >> political leaders either from the state or from the center. Assam simply >> cannot take any more ethic stress. >> Ethnic violence results from conflictc in ethnic groups trying to take >> proper ethnic identities. In an multi ethnic state like Assam, one will >> have to take multi identity for harmony of all. Thus the identity of >> Assamese with all ethnic groups that also consists of Hindus and Muslims is >> ideal for harmony. However, if one odes not want to take the Assamese >> identity that is fine as long as one doe not push too much on its own narrow >> ethnic identity to make additional room in Assam where room is simply not >> there. I hope this should be an eye opener to all in India. >> Against this background, the present ethnic violence in Assam is plainly a >> case in point which shows how the GOI is exploiting Assam under the terror >> of Indian Democracy. The ethnic homeland such as Bodo Land in a state like >> Assam which is already full of many different ethnic groups is not tenable, >> and the GOI should have known it. Many were opposed to the creation of the >> BTAD under the sixth schedule of the Constitution but Delhi which is the >> arbiter in all such cases does not think too far ahead. The center is trying >> to ceate rooms where room is not there. >> The GOI is doubly to blame, because this particular problem is created >> mainly by influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh which the GOI is >> supposed to take care f in the first place. This also shows the lack of >> leadership of the Assam political leaders in not being able to present in >> proper perspective the complex ethnic map of Assam with its proper >> significance >> _______________________________________________ >> assam mailing list >> assam@assamnet.org >> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
