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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:29:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [Assam Society] No future t
o sovereignty demand Ranen Kumar Goswami
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I am not sure of the point of this article.
Once a region/country/nation loses its sovereignty, it
can never regain it? Is that the point. India lost its
sovereignty to the British in a "legal" fashion where
papers were signed and sovereignty given over to the
British. So, India should have never regained
sovereignty in 1947?
Poland lost its sovereignty many times over its
history, to the Swedish, to the Germans, to the
Russians. Didn't it regain it?
So, the premise of this article doesn't make much
sense to me. What's lost can be regained. The papers
that were signed to accept the lost of sovereignty can
be overwritten by new papers that give sovereignty
back.
It's sophistry to say sovereignty can never be
regained.
Histoy is a moving thing. Countries are born and die.
In the past decade or so, the Soviet Union and the
Yugoslov Union died and more than ten countries came
into existence, i.e., regained sovereignty. Montenegro
became a new nation just months ago, Kosovo will in a
few years. In Asia, East Timor became a country a few
years ago, Bangladesh became one a few decades ago.
So, it is intellectual hypocrisy to write about only
one side of the issue.
Jugal
--- Pradip Kumar Datta
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No future to sovereignty demand
Ranen Kumar GoswamiWhen guns pass for rationale
and a thirst for innocent blood its basis, the
conclusion that comes out is sure to stand on its
head. Asom-India conflict is a poison fruit such a
conclusion has borne. Add to it another half-baked
wisdom from the distorted pages of our history,
Asom was never a part of India. The heady cocktail
is the theory of a sovereign Asom.
Asom was never a part of India and its forced
inclusion in the country has created the Asom-India
conflict. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
tries to shove this lesson of history down the
throat of Asomiya people. Did Asom not have any ties
with India in the past? Renowned intellectual Dr
Shiva Nath Barman has reminded us of our
mythological links. Asom had links with the mainland
India from time immemorial. Kamrup king Bhagadatta
fought for the Kauravas in the battle of Mahabharata
and laid down his life. Krishna married Rukmini and
Sankardev has immortalised the tale in his Rukmini
Haran Kabya. Bhim married Hidimba. Arjuna married
Chitrangada who was a princess from Manipur.
Madhabdev wrote, Dhanya Dhanya Bharat Borish (Hail!
> O Bharat). Sankardev added a chapter to his Bhakti
Ratnakar, the title and content of which was
Bharatbarsha Prasansha (In praise of Bharatbarsha).
From time immemorial, Asom has remained culturally
and spiritually united with the mainland
India. The country was never under one
administrative umbrella till the British came. Most
of the States were independent, Asom being one of
them. The British brought all these States under one
centralised administration. Todays political unity
of Indians is an outcome of the anti-British freedom
struggle. The people of Asom joined this struggle
and paid their share of the price for freedom with
their life and blood. The political identity of
being Indians that they carry in their Asomiya souls
is the result of their participation in this
struggle. This identity they have earned for
themselves, no one has imposed it on them.
Asom has lost her political independence much before
the Treaty of Yandaboo signed on February 24, 1826.
Because, about four years ago, the Burmese army
captured upper Asom and Guwahati. According to Dr
Surya Kumar Bhuyan, June 21, 1822, the day the
Burmese occupied Asom was the last day of her
independence. In fact, it was the last day of Asoms
independent political existence. At the time of
Yandaboo, Asom had only five districts: undivided
Kamrup, undivided Darrang, undivided Nagaon,
undivided Sivasagar, undivided Lakhimpur and a part
of Karbi Anglong. But does ULFA want to liberate the
pre-Yandaboo Asom? No. It wants to liberate the
present-day Asom; the Asom the British made bigger,
the Asom the people of the State inherited from the
British as a result of their anti-British struggle
in which they had taken part shoulder-to-shoulder
with the people of the rest of the country! The
State has suffered dismemberment several times since
1947. Yet it is much bigger than the
pre-Yandaboo Asom ULFA keeps talking about. Its
guns can not silence this truth.
The States surrounding Asom do not want to secede
from India though a section of people from Nagaland
do. Even this section now appears to have given up
their demand for sovereignty and settle for more
federal powers within India. This section too is
antagonising the people of three neighbouring States
with its claim on their territories and thus is
weakening its demand for Nagalim from within. Does
ULFA want Asom to be an isolated island surrounded
by States seeking to stay within India? But that too
will not be possible as banners of revolt are
already flying in Karbi Anglong, North Cachar Hills
districts and Bodoland. Neither do they want to stay
in Asom nor do they recognise ULFA as the sole
representative of the State. The DHD, spearheading
the movement for a Dimasa State, says it will remain
firm in its demand for a Dimasa State within the
Indian constitution irrespective of the success or
failure of the ULFA-Government talks. Extremist
Karbi organisation UPDS has
alleged that ULFA represents the Asomiya people,
not Asom; ULFA-nominated Peoples Consultative Group
(PCG) is conducting talks with Delhi for the Asomiya
only, not Asom. Moreover, the organisation has
pointed out that there is no tribal representative
in the PCG. Bodo leaderships tendency to leave Asom
is too well-known to need any mention. The Bodo
Peace Forum, playing a key role in bringing the NDFB
into the peace process, has said its struggle for a
separate Bodo State will continue at any cost.
The people of the Barak Valley do not want freedom
of the ULFA brand and it is as clear as daylight. Do
people of the Brahmaputra Valley want it, or for
that matter, the Asomiya people want it? Not to
speak of the all-India political parties, even the
regional political formations like the Asom Gana
Parishad (AGP) or the AGP (P) are against the idea
of a sovereign Asom. The AGP reiterated its stand
against secessionism at its general body meeting in
Guwahati on January 20, 2007. The partys well-known
> stand is that it wants a federal restructure of the
Indian Union with maximum powers to the State. The
All Assam Students Union (AASU), which has a strong
command over the Asomiya opinion, has publicly
stated its stance against a sovereign Asom. An
angered ULFA has recently branded the AASU
leadership as agents of the Indian State. AASU, on
the other hand, criticises the Bangladesh-sheltered
ULFA leadership for its silence over the influx of
Bangla nationals in Asom. Another
influential organisation, the Asam Jatiyatabadi
Yuba-Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) also advocates more
powers to the State, not sovereignty.
The Asam Sahitya Sabha, which has been playing a
pivotal role in shaping Asomiya national
consciousness since its birth in the 19th century,
is also against an Asom outside India. Sabha
president Kanaksen Deka asserted at a Press meet in
Guwahati on January 19, 2007 that Asom was, is and
will remain an inseparable part of India. Except for
a few die-hard pro-ULFA organisasions, no other mass
organisation, student or youth organisation, trade
union, peasant organisation or any other
organisation worth the name has supported the
sovereignty demand. Then who wants a separate
sovereign existence outside India? It is only ULFA
who does.
It has every right to nurse a sovereign dream.
Maybe, in its view, only a sovereign existence can
ensure happiness and prosperity for the people of
Asom. That is why it has jumped into a struggle for
independence. But what is the nature of this
struggle? Has it formed any mass organisation to go
to the people to favourably influence their opinion
and win their support? No, it hasnt. Theres no
alternative to mass organisations to win mass
support and persuade the people to join the fight
for freedom. It uses bullets and bombs even to turn
mass support in its favour. And this is exactly why
it is terrorist. It uses terrorist methods to impose
its will on the people. The call for boycott of
National Games was one such instance. Lesser the
public support, more are its terrorist activities.
Some milestones of its freedom struggle are the mass
grave at Lakhipathar, massacre of children at
Dhemaji and killings of Hindi speaking labourers. It
feels no qualms before planting bombs
in public places. Then, what has happened to its
war of independence? Mass support is a must for such
a war. The State is not scared of guns not backed by
mass support. Even these guns, it uses more often
than not, against the unarmed civilians and not
against the armed forces. Needless to say, there
will be no freedom without mass support, no freedom
can be achieved by avoiding war with the Army and
killing the unarmed innocents. So, no astrology is
required to safely predict that there is no future
at all to ULFAs sovereignty demand. (Assam Tribune
Editorial)
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