>When I told Phizo that Government of India no longer took him seriously, he tried to prove to me that he was not a spent force as it appeared.
*** You really did tell him off, didn't you?
Served him right!
>I am sorry to
say that in case of ULFA also it is so because the Government has
become experienced in the art of >dealing with insurgents. Kashmir
taught them.
*** Sorry? WHY? Does not make any sense to me. Why should
you be sorry? You are not trying to have it both ways too here are you
BK, like some of the rest of us here? That would be rather unseemly if
you asked me.
>Unfortunately
for the Government of India which is not a dictatorship, the show has
to go on because of a great >many people who have enjoyed or are
enjoying or hope to enjoy power for all the time.
*** Huh? Can you explain that please?
>It is why they
are afraid of applying the laws of the country to maintain
law and order which the Indian Army is >capable of
doing.
*** Is this your concept of democracy BK? You really disappoint
me this morning. I certainly wanted to hear something a tad but
more meaningful from someone of your education, experience and
exposures.
If the 'democratic' Indian govt. is AFRAID of 'applying the laws'
isn't something the matter with it? And why only on the matter
of 'law and order'?
Why not say CORRUPTION? Why does it NOT apply the laws? When did
you ever see it being applied on that front? Why is it that you get
all very excited ONLY when rioting breaks out? How come you
never want to learn why public disorder breaks out? And why do you NOT
want the army goons to do the same law-applying on the politicians and
those corrupt clerks-from-hell too?
Finally HOW exactly does the law applying that you so yearn for
work: Is it not by doing a Kakopothar?
A mere suggestion of it by the outgoing Governor of Assam, an ex-army officer, earned him public censure.
*** That was a MERE suggestion ? And WHAT democratic system did
give this
Jabba-the-Hutt of a Darwan-general the right to DICTATE terms to
the elected political leadership to NOT SEEK A POLITICAL solution with
ULFA?
Can you please explain how that works to this ignoramus with your
considerable knowledge of political science and democratic
tenets?
Your arguments here are very dissonant, to put it mildly
BK.
Regards,
c
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Dear Baruah Saheb
You've asked my views about the Naga problem. I do have them coupled with the fact that my political forecasts had always been proved wrong in the long run. I console myself with the fact that political solutions are seldom predictable. An example of this is the grant of separate Statehood to the hill districts of former Assam. The Indian press as well as the economists and other statesmen who stated these States were not viable because of lack of revenue etc were against the idea. But it appears without any known consultation with the public including the Assam State Legislature and the Parliament itself, the then Prime Minister of India suddenly announced, it was a coup the grace, that the Khasi Hills, the Garo Hills and the Lushai Hill districts would form the new State of Meghalaya. The rest is history.
I come to the point.
Sovereignty for the Nagas is a dead issue. It died the day late Mr A Z Phizo fled the country. When I told Phizo that Government of India no longer took him seriously, he tried to prove to me that he was not a spent force as it appeared.
Today, I think the parleys with the Issac-Muivah et al are nothing but an eye-wash. I am sorry to say that in case of ULFA also it is so because the Government has become experienced in the art of dealing with insurgents. Kashmir taught them. Unfortunately for the Government of India which is not a dictatorship, the show has to go on because of a great many people who have enjoyed or are enjoying or hope to enjoy power for all the time. It is why they are afraid of applying the laws of the country to maintain law and order which the Indian Army is capable of doing. A mere suggestion of it by the outgoing Governor of Assam, an ex-army officer, earned him public censure.
The Government of India is having the last laugh. The mutineers are clearly divided. And their strategy also appears to be not fool-proof. In other words they are confused and confounded. For example, the rebels demand for all Naga-inhabited areas to be included in Nagalim. I say where are the dimachas? Can't they not evict the encroachers?
Bhuban
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