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

[Rajib Das]

Besides, the use of child soldiers - whether by legal
national armies or extra legal liberation militants -
is illegal. Offcourse if you are a terrorist, you are
not bound by any kind of laws - even the human ones.

--- Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:

> C'da,
> 
> >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.
> 
> So, as insurgents get desperate, children are at
> stake. When can we expect a
> Beslan?
> 
>  >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?
> 
> All murders are bad, C'da. To the victims of secret
> killings or even the
> families of ulfa cadres the loss of their loved ones
> is terrible. Nothing
> that you or me or the GOI or the ULFA can make it
> right.
> 
> But as a society, we specially have a much softer
> corner for children. And
> when their innocence is used for ulfa's or the GOI's
> advantage, it doesn't
> speak well of the perpetrators.
> 
>  >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?
> 
> Whats your point C'da? Yes, millions of children
> everywhere in the world are
> exploited - even in the US. This is a societal
> problem. But just because the
> society is derelict or hasn't been able to provide
> the best for our
> children, it certainly does not mean insurgent
> elements take that as a cue
> to send children into harms way?
> 
> >The outrage is SELECTIVE and CONVENIENT, designed
> to make political points
> 
> It may seem so. But the reality is that it does hurt
> when children are used
> in this way. There are no excuses here. If the GOI
> were to send India's
> children to fight its wars with Pakistan or fight
> insurgencies, my
> indignation would have been similar or more.
> 
> --Ram
> 
> 
> On 10/18/06, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >  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,
> >
> >
> >
> > >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!
> >
> >
> >
> > This is what one would call 'spinning out of
> control' :)
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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