R:
Your visualizations enumerated here are NOT the only
possibilities. Or are they?
For example:
>Mahanta is needlessly
murdered by the army, who assumed he had ulfa links.
*** What if he DID have ULFA links? Would he have automatically
forfeited the right to live? And how do YOU know that he did
not?
>The people in his village
knew that he wasn't and that he was innocent.
*** How do you know that? Is it in the realm of possibilities
that the villages did KNOW that he had ULFA links. And what if they
came to his defense--although tragically late, because they too are
sympathizers themselves ? Is it possible?
You asserted that the popular outrage ad NOTHING to do with
sovereignty.
Is it hard to conceive of the fact that ULFA is synonymous with
Assam's sovereignty aspirations ? I can imagine it would be who are in
abject denial. But anyone willing to acknowledge reality would agree
that it IS so. And if it is so, then how can you assert what you do,
with even a modicum of credibility?
>But its nice to feel that the
bandhs/protests are on your side -:)
*** Thanks for the thought.
c-da
At 6:32 PM -0600 2/13/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
C'da,
>*** It will be the ultimate of denial to think that it has NOTHING to do with Assam's sovereignty movement.
I can visualize the scene. Trying to deduce logically what could have happened.
Mahanta is needlessly murdered by the army, who assumed he had ulfa links.
The people in his village knew that he wasn't and that he was innocent.
The GOA and the army are nonchallant and did not take steps to inquire/redress the situation
People from surrounding villages give support to the Mahantas
Politicians (the opposition to the ruling govt.) see this as an opportunity - remember this is election time, and everyone gets into the fray.
The ulfa also sees this as a great opportunity to get into this fray (remember Ajit Mahanta is not considered having links with ulfa).
The Ulfa calls for a 12 hour bandh. The AASU (which is at loggerheads with Ulfa) also call for a 12 band for the next day.
Both bandhs are going to to be successful. Nothing suceeds like bandhs. Even a normal 'drop of a hat' bandh gets near total success, and this tradegy with a number of people dead is charged with emotions is guaranteed to be a success.
If one were to assume that the success of the bandh today (by the ulfa) was because people want a 'free Assam', how would you judge the success of the bandh call by AASU tomorrow?
Remember, the AASU position is to work within the Indian Constitution and DOES NOT seek independence.
So, if both the bandhs are a success, how can you say that they were the clarion call for independence? The same people observing the bandh cannot be for and against independence, can they?
So, my conclusion, is that the protests/bandhs have nothing to do with Assam's sovereignty, but more to do with the frustrations at an inept GOA and an army that went berserk.
But its nice to feel that the bandhs/protests are on your side -:)
--Ram
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