How ridiculous! I am not sure if this is an opinion or quotes from somewhere else.
Sent from my iPad On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Rajen Barua <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Center is Responsible for Ethnic Violence in Assam > The ethnic violence in Assam should be an eye opener to GOI and to all in > Assam. Assam has about 3% of India's total population but has 140 different > ethnic groups compared to India;s total about 600 total ethnic groups. The > significance is clear when we realise that this 3% population of Assam is > carrying about 25% of India's ethnic burden resulting in about 12 times more > ethnic stress in Assam compared to the rest of India. I donot see that this > point has been realised and presented in proper perspective by any political > leaders either from the state or from the center. Assam simply cannot take > any more ethic stress. > Ethnic violence results from conflictc in ethnic groups trying to take proper > ethnic identities. In an multi ethnic state like Assam, one will have to > take multi identity for harmony of all. Thus the identity of Assamese with > all ethnic groups that also consists of Hindus and Muslims is ideal for > harmony. However, if one odes not want to take the Assamese identity that is > fine as long as one doe not push too much on its own narrow ethnic identity > to make additional room in Assam where room is simply not there. I hope this > should be an eye opener to all in India. > Against this background, the present ethnic violence in Assam is plainly a > case in point which shows how the GOI is exploiting Assam under the terror of > Indian Democracy. The ethnic homeland such as Bodo Land in a state like > Assam which is already full of many different ethnic groups is not tenable, > and the GOI should have known it. Many were opposed to the creation of the > BTAD under the sixth schedule of the Constitution but Delhi which is the > arbiter in all such cases does not think too far ahead. The center is trying > to ceate rooms where room is not there. > The GOI is doubly to blame, because this particular problem is created mainly > by influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh which the GOI is supposed to > take care f in the first place. This also shows the lack of leadership of the > Assam political leaders in not being able to present in proper perspective > the complex ethnic map of Assam with its proper significance > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
