[Assam] Revealed: Assam kids plant bombs for Rs 100

Wed Oct 18 09:36:17 PDT 2006

Ram:

The point is about the continuation of the conflict spanning over two 
decades, getting worse  over time. And as the asymmetry widens, so 
does the desperation and its resultant by-products.

Do GoI's honchos huddle in the backrooms of the palace to connive to 
let loose the army , armed with AFSPA  and other such devices, on the 
Assamese, or Kashmiris or the myriads of groups across India?

One would have to say, NO. It does not happen that way.

But the NET EFFECT is the same, isn't it?

Does it matter to its ultimate victims whether it is an outcome out 
of connivance of a few evil people, or universal exploitation or 
benign apathy?

Will you have the courage to face the victims of the 'secret 
killings' of Assam to suggest that their loss is not nearly as bad 
as, say the children of Dhakuakhana, since the former was perpetrated 
by unknown evil people, while the latter was, to be reasonably 
suspected to be by ULFA?

Or can you, with a straight face argue, that the millions of children 
of India scouring garbage piles left by the Great Indian Middle 
Class' consumption , for the struggle to survive and dying untimely 
deaths, homeless, hungry, bereft of the most rudimentary of the 
necessities of life, is somehow not nearly as grotesque as children 
used to plant bombs by insurgent groups?

Or maimed and deformed children begging on the streets of great 
Indian  cities, plucking their scabs to bleed a little more, to 
compete with those others whose wounds are not nearly as bad; are 
nothing  compared to ULFA or Kashmir militants
or tribal-Naxals exploiting their children to smuggle explosives to 
destroy the lives and life-styles of other INNOCENT Indians?

Give me a break Ram.

The outrage is SELECTIVE and CONVENIENT, designed to make political points and
augment the propaganda of the Indian establishment, to whom it is 
more important to hold on to the real-estate, of Assam, of Kashmir, 
and damn those who occupy the ground!

c-da

At 10:34 AM -0500 10/18/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>C'da,
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>  >See, the Great Indian Middle Class, is soooo very kind to the 
>children of its under->classes, it must hurt their sensitivities to 
>see these ULFA rogues use children to do their >dirty work!
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>This is what one would call 'spinning out of control' :)
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>Yes, mal-treatment to children by any class of people is bad. But 
>this mal-treatment is not an organized effort by the GOI or some 
>state or even a group of people. What you are referring to is a 
>social problem, and NOT a connived effort by groups of people trying 
>to harm children.
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>In the case of the ULFA is pure and simple - they want to save their 
>own hides and send children to fight men's wars. These obviously are 
>really brave men - put women & children first. Remember Bhutan - 
>they abandoned women & children and took off. That is the backbone 
>of the organization.
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>Well - they may have an excuse - the whole world mistreats children 
>- from Africa, Latin Americas to Asia (specially India) - so why 
>shouldn't they take this a step further - let children do the dirty 
>work and die if necessary?
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>--Ram
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>On 10/18/06, Chan Mahanta 
><<mailto:cmahanta at charter.net>cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>No doubt Ram. You are right.
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>See, the Great Indian Middle Class, is soooo very kind to the 
>children of its under-classes, it must hurt their sensitivities to 
>see these ULFA rogues use children to do their dirty work!
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>So, Ram, I can appreciate your, Neep's and all others' outpourings 
>of revulsion with something like this, and your disgust with those 
>who see only GoI's insincerity and its supporters' hypocrisies.
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>But somehow Ram, this 'odhom' doesn't quite buy it.
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>c-da :-)
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>At 10:01 AM -0500 10/18/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
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>>C'da,
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>This one you cannot spin. That ulfa is willing to put children on 
>the frontlines (instead of risking their own sweet hides) speaks 
>volumes of their world view.
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>Even if their cause was worthwhile, and the GOI and others are the 
>ones that forced them to become insurgents, it still doesn't compute.
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>This organization who claim to be the one looking after Assam's 
>interests, is all so willing to goad children into doing the dirty 
>work and bear all the risks.
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>This is a new low, however you cut it.
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>On 10/18/06, Chan Mahanta 
><<mailto:cmahanta at charter.net>cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>If the recent history of such conflicts worldwide is any guide, it 
>could be expected to hit even lower, as the stalemate progresses and 
>the asymmetry of the conflict increases.
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>What is confounding is the smugness with which the party that holds 
>all the cards would not do its share to find a negotiated solution, 
>while waving its oh-so-pious wishes to the world.
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>Be it in Assam, be it in Nagaland, be it in Kashmir, be it in Sri Lanka.
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>Hypocrisy obviously has no bounds.
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>At 8:41 AM -0500 10/18/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
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>>This is a new low.
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>On 10/18/06, Neep Hazarika 
><<mailto:neep_hazarika at hotmail.com>neep_hazarika at hotmail.com> wrote:
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><http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/oct/18asom.htm>http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/oct/18asom.htm
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>Neep Hazarika
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