Rajen:
the way I see it is a complete failure of the
GOI Security and Intelligence in the highly
insurgent infected area in upper Assam >where
the Central GOI Security is spending crores of
rupees and killing and harassing the loacl
youths in the name of >insurgency control for
last 20 years.
*** You ask a good question. But a far better
question would be to ask WHAT has Indian armed
forces' actions and inaction wrought for Assam
and its contiguous areas over these last 50 plus
years of warfare?
Has it made things better for the people, or worse?
Has it helped resolve the conflicts or has it
escalated it? And if it has escalated it, should
they STAY the COURSE, GWB like? And should
Assam's intelligentsia, as represented by assam
netters tacitly support the process India has
pursued all these decades, fruitlessly, and
worsening the problems by many folds?
*** Anyone who has half a working brain, knows,
or should know, that there is no way the corrupt
Indian army led by even more corrupt and inept
civilians, will never be able to prevent the kind
of mayhem and which continues unabated as we
speak. And sure as the coming of seasons the
military will again be out ULFA hunting, with
open-season on the people in the backwoods of
Assam. The cycle will repeat with the violence
ratcheted up one more notch.
So, would the fiery blather and 'gaali' spouting
from Duggal, Jaiswal, the fat Governor, Umesh,
Sandip and others make a gnat's a-s' worth of
difference?
Netters take a wild guess.
*** The only solution is to negotiate a political
settlement. And that is what thinking people
would and should help promote anbd raise their
voices in demand of.
At 10:17 PM -0600 1/7/07, Rajen & Ajanta Barua wrote:
>We want to tell the world how insecure we are,
despite staying next to the National Highway on
which hundreds of army and police vehicles pass
everyday, said Lalit.
>Longsowal is on NH 37, just 20 km from
Tinsukia town and six km short of Doomdooma.
There are two police stations on the highway on
either side, roughly four to five km apart.
>Army convoys move out almost everyday from the
2 Div Hqs at Dinjan to various places, including
Arunachal Pradesh.
Besides condemning the inhuman killing, the way
I see it is a complete failure of the GOI
Security and Intelligence in the highly
insurgent infected area in upper Assam where the
Central GOI Security is spending crores of
rupees and killing and harassing the loacl
youths in the name of insurgency control for
last 20 years. Just think of it, how it can be,
somebody killing people in broad daylight in
front of the eys of the security personal. This
is not possible unless the security personal
themselves are corrupt and giving a bloind eye
to the killing. The GOI security should be held
accountable for this lapse of securirty and they
should pay compensatation for the deaths, and
must gueanty that this type of lapse of secirity
will not happen again.
Rajen Barua
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From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>umesh sharma
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: [Assam] IE: Assam latest developments
<http://www.indianexpress.com/story/20397.html>http://www.indianexpress.com/story/20397.html
The latest attack, which took place around 8.30
pm, raises the death toll to 55. Tinsukia
district alone accounted for 34 deaths while
eight were reported from Dibrugarh. Six persons
were also killed in a village in Dhemaji
district on the north bank of the Brahmaputra
across Dibrugarh.
In Longsowal, 20 km from Tinsukia, the anger is
rising. People are yet to cremate the bodies.
We want leaders from Bihar to come and see what
has happened to us, said Virendra Gupta, who
survived because he had gone to Tinsukia on some
work.
Jaiswal had to face the ire of the residents,
most of them from Bihar, who earn their living
by running petty shops for tea garden labourers.
The minister kept repeating that he would go
and tell the Chief Minister and the Prime
Minister. We do not want assurances. We want
action, adequate compensation, said Lalit who
sells clothes, roaming villages on a bicycle.
They have demanded Rs 10 lakh for each of the
dead and Rs 3 lakh for the injured, and jobs for
the affected families.
The bodies of the dead, all in wooden boxes
covered with ice, are being guarded by the
residents, waiting for a team of ministers from
Bihar. Yes, we want to block the road. We want
to tell the world how insecure we are, despite
staying next to the National Highway on which
hundreds of army and police vehicles pass
everyday, said Lalit.
Longsowal is on NH 37, just 20 km from Tinsukia
town and six km short of Doomdooma. There are
two police stations on the highway on either
side, roughly four to five km apart.
Army convoys move out almost everyday from the 2
Div Hqs at Dinjan to various places, including
Arunachal Pradesh.
If we are unsafe, imagine what would be the
state of our people who live in remote chapories
(winter river islands) on the Brahmaputra, says
Radheyshyam Prasad, another shopkeeper, who
claims that the Longsowal cluster of Biharis go
back to three generations. We may be of Bihari
origin, but we belong to this place. Our
ancestors came during the days of the British,
said Jainarain, a shopkeeper. Rekha Kumari (8),
daughter of Parsuram Prasad, who was shot in
both legs and is now at the AMC Hospital in
Dibrugarh, said the militants entered their
house by breaking the bamboo door. They barged
in with guns and opened fire. I got shot on both
legs and the abdomen, she said.
Other Bihari clusters, like Ghoramara Chapori,
are also soft targets. It is far away, about 20
km from the nearest police station. You cannot
reach that place without crossing several
channels of the Brahmaputra, says Tinsukia SP
Prasanta Bhuyan.
Umesh Sharma
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