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Dear Mukul,
I thank you for your friendly tone
--- that's just like the good old days !! It is very painful for me that we
are having such a difference of opinion. But, I am NOT doing it for my sake. I
am NOT doing it to prove a point. I am doing it for an extreme fear of
a calamity for Assamese people. We had one "Manor Din" 185 years ago. We
had a mild taste of something starting like that in our lifetime at the
beaches of Silghat 44 years ago. We know what happened to the Chakma
people right in front of our eyes in the 80s. How do you guaranty that such a
fate will not happen to the Assamese people? If it was a private matter like an
academic theory in science or mathematics, I could keep my convictions and you
could keep yours. But this is NOT a private matter. A wrong decision will bring
suffering to millions of people. Innocent people. Women and children. We cannot
just keep our convictions to ourselves. We must analyze it and scrutinize every
word, every punctuation, so that we are sure that innocent people are safe. If
we make a mistake, and if people suffer, we must take full responsibility.
Let me discuss an example: As a result of the Direct Action of
Jinnah on August 16, 17 & 18, 1946 in In defense of his pet partition
plan, Mountbatten thundered that he would use Army, he would use Air Force, he
would do anything needed to stop any communal riot after partition. I am quoting
here from the book India Wins Freedom by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
In his book, Azad made a sarcastic
remark about Mountbattens bombastic assurances. One million people lost their
lives as a result of partition. Did Lord Mountabatten take any responsibility
about the beatings, rapes, injuries, decapitations and death of millions of
refugees? Will you take the responsibility if
Assamese people go through the same suffering and get wiped out ? Im NOT talking of the suffering of the
innocent people during your freedom struggle which you may justify as a collateral damage. My
question is How do you guaranty that the fate of the Assamese people will not be
the same as the fate of the Chakma people at the hands of Although it sounds like passing the
buck, I respect your comment that
Never mind, there are 3 crore more voices to heed to . They will
decide. Let them. I definitely have great esteem for
the opinion of 3 crore people. But, how will you know their opinion? Plebiscite?
Young people are very much enchanted by the idea of plebiscite because they do
not have experience of what really happens. You do remember the plebiscite in
Sylhet in 1947 which was completely rigged. If the plebiscite was held with
military protection of the voters, Sylhet would have remained in
Is it a fact that, out of the 3
crores that you are citing, 1 crore are illegal infiltrators? And you are saying They will
decide. Let them ??? Through
a rigged up plebiscite
without military protection ? How do you arrange
military protection for 2 crores of people who will have to move around under
the fear of terrorist attacks and suicide bombers? This is verily the reductio ad
absurdum where we arrive by following your argument. For the sake of the safety
and survival of Assamese people, I appeal to you to give up the idea of a
separately free It is not a question who is a loser
and who is a winner. If our people are saved, we all win. Please support the
ideology of With love to
everybody, Himendra
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