<etc which are mentioned by Shri Tarun Vijay (the editor of Organiser (or is it
Panchajanya?), the RSS mouthpiece)...Oh Yea!
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:31:03
-0700Subject: [asom] Re: From Tarun Vijay of the Organiser: Tears on the NE!
Its heartening to note that now non-assamese are also equally concerned. To put
it in perspective, here's a gist:1. The chief minister of Assam is in no
position to take action against Bangladeshi infiltrators. The reason is that
they are overwhelmingly Muslim and represent a solid vote bank. So until the
time Assam remains a part of India, the party he represents can find hope only
from this section to remain in power.2. The Ulfa is no position to take action
against Bangladeshi infiltrators either. For them its a matter of reciprocal
symbiosis. For Barua and Rajkhowa to enjoy Bangladeshi hospitality, its
important that Ulfa looks the other way while Bangladeshis swamp Assam.3. Many
Assamese "intellectuals", mostly foreign educated or settled beleive that the
Muslim infiltration is all hype and a myth created by pro-RSS bodies dominated
mostly by Hindi speaking people and their Assamese symphatisers. They prefer to
beleive that the "infiltrators" are actually mostly kind and good Assamese
muslims who have lived like "brothers" for centuries. Hence for them the "lungi
menace" is a media created monster.4. The Ulfa is busy cleaning up land by
chasing off Hindi speaking people. That way more Bangladeshis can settle and
expand their elephatine families.5. There are others who never cease to debate
on why Hindus should also not be deported along with Muslims. They fail to
recognize that the myth of Assam being a safe haven for Bengali hindus exploded
many years back. So while they waste their own time and that of others, the
infiltration (probably 99% muslim now) continues.6. The AASU backed by ageing
leaders does not have the organizing or motivating capacity to lead people
again in a 1980s type agitation. Besides Assam has had a chief minister from
this group who hasnt got anything to show.7. In many districts, Bangladeshis
have registered their mother tongue as "Assamese" in the late 80s and early
90s. This was to distinguish themselves from the Bengali Hindus who are often
accused of not blending into Assamese language and culture. However now that
the muslims are majority in many districts, they are re-registering themselves
as "Bengali" speaking again. Now they have the numbers to not worry about
trivia like language. This issue is now a multi faceted problem with several
dimensions to it and therefore it is all the more difficult to get anywhere
close to a solution. You will soon see for yourself if you continue to be
copied on the emails.Regards,SD--- "Souparna Lahiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:I am forwarding this email from our friend Vijayan with serious concern.
As he says, this needs to be countered by people from the NE.Souparna Lahiri143
Khirki VillageNew Delhi - 110 017Mobile: 91 9818147740Tel (R) No. 91 11
29541502Friends,Lalit reahed me this piece from some list serve...It goes
without saying that I will appreciate anyone trying to put together a counter
to this article, which is based on half-truths and baked conspiracy lies... I
would have loved to do, but since there are you who are better than me
regarding knowledge about the ground situation in the eight NE states
especially Assam, Nagaland, etc which are mentioned by Shri Tarun Vijay (the
editor of Organiser (or is it Panchajanya?), the RSS mouthpiece)...Pls do and
do let me know how I can help anyone with additions, suggestions, etc...Vijayan
MJhttp://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/sep/07tarun.htm Delhi fiddles while the
northeast burnsTarun VijaySeptember 07, 2007Visiting Nagaland makes you feel
different. You have to procure an inner line permit to enter. The permit
demands to know why I am going there, where I shall stay and to be sure about
my credentials I needed a guaranteer to vouch for me, my safe conduct and
return within the stated period. Issued by the deputy commissioner's office
this permit is governed under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation Act 1873.
Yes, 1873.The British left India in 1947. We are celebrating the 60th
anniversary of that freedom obtained after our motherland's division and the
massacres that followed. Still, I needed a permit, something that the British
began to isolate these regions in the name of 'protecting' the local indigenous
people. The same procedure is also in vogue in Arunachal Pradesh.So, we,
legitimate Indians, are required to obtain a permit -- another name for a
'visa' -- but these states are reeling under the heat of illegal Muslim
infiltrators from Bangladesh, who, obviously do not need to get an permit to
enter, buy land, marry local girls and become so dominant that even the state
authorities feel afraid to oust them.Arunachal Pradesh's student bodies
recently compelled Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu to take action against the
Bangladeshis. So what did he do? He pushed a couple of thousands to Assam and
the matter ended. In Assam it created a furore. The Muslim bodies, specially
the All Assam Minorities Students Union, threatened to oust Hindus from Muslim
majority districts like Dhubri, Goalpara and Barpeta, so Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi 'certified' that all those ousted by the Arunachal Pradesh
government are Assamese and shall be accommodated in Barpeta!The situation is
so serious and Delhi's apathy so mindboggling that the people have lost all
hope. The All Assam Students Union, which spearheaded an unprecedented movement
in the 1980s to oust Bangladeshi infiltrators, has in utter desperation said
that in the next ten years Assam may have a Bangladeshi chief minister. Strong
and alarming words indeed. But neither the media nor the political parties paid
any attention.Assam has been transformed beyond recognition. The state's
cultural identity is symbolised by the great reformer and rejuvenator Srimat
Sankar Dev. His birthlace in Dhing, near Bardowa, is a must-visit pilgrim
centre for every Assamese Hindu. Now the Dhing assembly constituency has 90.02
percent Muslims. No prizes to guess how this Hindu pilgrim centre became a
Muslim majority town because of the Bangladeshi influx.Assam's latest political
star is Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, a perfume tycoon, who formed a new political
party, the United Democratic Front, in 2005 and won 10 seats in the 2006
assembly election, surprising everyone. Previously he used to remote control
other secular parties. Now he has taken the reins in his hands.Assam and other
northeastern states have become more volatile than Kashmir, but Delhi's page
three media and corrupt polity don't see beyond their immediate concerns.After
Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, it is Nagaland's turn now. Bangladeshi jihadi
factories supplying men and material are creating havoc from Itanagar to Kohima
and Hyderabad. They are there before everybody's eyes, yet no government has
shown a steely resolve to identify them and send them back. Aliens are turned
into voters for political gain. The lines dividing traitors and patriots are
getting blurred. Patriotic people need permits, they are made to live a
refugee's life, but aliens feel quite confident and vocal to aggressively enter
our country, bomb it and yet find sympathies in the corridors of power.In
Nagaland, people are sandwiched between the insurgent groups and the
Bangladeshi influx. The headquarters of the National Socialist Council of
Nagaland (Issac-Muivah group) is in Hebron, 30 odd kilometres from Dimapur.
Everywhere, while going to Kohima one can see posters demanding 'quick results
of peace talks' and a greater Nagalim which they want in the name of Christ --
a separate independent country. According to government sources there are about
75,000 Bangladeshi Muslims in Nagaland today.I had come to attend a seminar
organised by a daring tribal organisation, the Janajati Vikas Samiti, which had
invited about 80 participants from the northeastern states. Nagaland Home
Minister Thenucho inaugurated the conference. Former state secretary C M Chang
headed the organising committee. It was incredible to see so many tribal
leaders engrossed in what can be termed a free discussion on the problems
Nagaland faces -- Bangladeshi infiltration being the foremost.Minister Thenucho
was forthcoming and said this problem has to be seen as a demographic invasion.
'The Naga people may be soon reduced to miserable sufferers by these
infiltrators, who may appear as an asset for providing cheap labour and easily
available hands for menial jobs. But look what they have done elsewhere and
there is no guarantee that they will not do the same here. Today they work as
labourers; tomorrow Nagas will have to work for them, if we do not stand up and
say no to them,' the minister said. He was serious.The only problem is the
Centre does not share their anxieties. Nothing that binds Naga society with the
rest of the country has ever been encouraged and strengthened. Natwar Thakkar
started his Gandhi ashram in Mokukchang but could never expand his mission of
spreading Gandhi's sublime thoughts beyond that.To be in Kohima is still
considered a matter of fear, pregnant with life and death questions. There is
no icon of India that can be seen here. In the early 1980s a Gandhi statue was
installed in Kohima, only to be desecrated and destroyed soon. 'Nagaland
doesn't need any Indian's statue' was the decree issued by the
insurgents.Almost everyone, from IAS officers to traders and teachers, have to
cough up a part of their earnings to the insurgents. Their 'freedom days',
'republic days' are celebrated in full public view with the media from Kolkata
and Delhi in attendance. Presently there is a ceasefire between the NSCN (IM)
and the Indian Army, but rumours are afloat that this period has been better
utilised by the insurgents to reinforce its battalions with new recruits,
procure better weapons and resources to press for its demand for an
'independent 'Nagalim', which seeks to 'add' parts of Manipur and Arunachal
Pradesh to its fold.This has enraged Manipuri and Arunachali tribals and a
tribal war cannot be ruled out if the Naga insurgents' demand is given any
sympathy.The press is lively but cocooned in its own world. "We have never been
invited to join any prime minister's party on his foreign visits, Delhi and
Kolkata papers reach us very late, after a day or two, that too the dak
edition,' said Geoffrey Yaden, editor of the Nagaland Post, the main daily
newspaper in the state. "They don't understand us properly, they write to
please their egos. Nobody has the time and interest to understand our people or
to make serious efforts to create bridges and strengthen national feelings
here. Are politicians sitting in Delhi are bothered about us or the nation?" he
lamented.I know it is very difficult to have a Delhi leader or social activist
or cultural tsar to find time for a northeast visit. How many of us would go to
Manipur or Nagaland or Arunachal for a family trip? Do we know that the most
scintillating lakes, mountains, rivers and forests are in the northeast,
bettering even Kashmir's panorama? Unfortunately the northeast has yet to
register in our minds as markedly as Hardwar, Manali, Goa [Images] or
Rameshwaram.Corruption to the northeast's politicians is 'taught' by
politicians in New Delhi. Even to get a central grant released for these
states, central ministers and their durbaris have to be suitably 'pleased'. The
grants that go to the northeast finally come back in large parts to the Delhi
durbar through traders, contractors, commission agents and sanctioning
ministers. The rest is divided amongst local 'beneficiaries', including the
insurgents.In view of the infiltration threat faced by Nagaland and other
northeastern states, an observation by E Ramamohan, the former director
general, Border Security Force, who was with me in Kohima, should be an
eyeopener. He warns about the insurgent groups' long-term planning for 2015 --
"Today there are several Islamic fundamentalist insurgent groups in Assam, all
created with the help of the Director General Forces Intelligence of Bangladesh
and Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence. The main groups are the Muslim
United Liberation Front of Assam, the Muslim United Tigers of Assam and the
Islamic Liberation Army of Assam... what is most interesting that these Islamic
fundamentalist groups have not started operations so far. Interrogations of the
suspects and intelligence reports have revealed that they are in a preparation
phase. Motivating and recruiting cadres, training them in Pakistan, stockpiling
arms and explosives for the insurgency is their present strategy. The target is
(to launch an assault) in 2015."Why can't we understand that India shrinks from
every inch that is occupied by Bangladeshi infiltrators in our territory? In
less than 100 years India has shrunk like no other nation on earth.We lost
Taxila, Karachi, Dhaka. Post independence, we lost 1.25 lakh square kilometres
of land to Pakistan and China. Beijing [Images] still eyes Arunachal
Pradesh.Then Indians lost lands and homes in the Kashmir valley and became
refugees for the 'sin' of supporting India. Now, jihadis, Maoists and
church-supported insurgents want their share. Where will this all lead to? All
the power, position, money and glitter weigh nothing before the question of the
nation's sovereignty and territorial integrity. At least in the northeast,
people feel nobody listens to their woes in Delhi.Regards,Vijayan MJDelhi
ForumF-10/12 (GF), Malviya Nagar,New Delhi INDIA - 110017Phones: 91-11-26671556
(Direct),26680914/883 Fax:26687724Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL
PROTECTED]"We hear that governance now will have a different cadenceTyranny
will now be the protector; cities will be without walls or doorsInnocence will
now be a punishable crimeJudges will profess ignorance of criminal
deeds…Executioners will be in charge of funerals, killers will organize
mourning…If this be the realization of India's ancient dreamsThen soon, there
will neither be India, nor any of its connoisseurs…"(By Ali Sardar
Jafri)__._,_.___
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