[Assam] Naga attacks on Assam

[Jyotirmoy Sharma]

We(Assam) have been at the receiving end all the time. It is hardly  
Assam trying to grab Nagaland's territory. Whenever such instance  
takes place the Govt issues an investigation, says some calming words  
and the issue is forgotten. An Assam attack on Nagaland would  
probably have been met with a quit notice to all Assamese in Nagaland.
  " ..go seek an eye for an eye" - I haven't said that we launch a  
similar attack on Nagaland but we must do whatever is necessary to  
protect our people.

> Perhaps BSF would be a good candidate, considering their flawless  
> performance along the B'desh border. Or better still it should be  
> that two hundred thousand strong Indian army in Assam in charge of  
> ULFA hunting  -- no make that PC Ram rescuing.
It has to be from Assam police- a force to be built with  
sophisticated weapons. BSF and say CRPF do not understand Assam-Naga  
problems.


On 07/07/2007, at 10:27 AM, Chan Mahanta wrote:

>> Hopefully we don't hear statements like "have to maintain age old  
>> brotherly relations"
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> *** Why? Is it subversive? Uncivilized?
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>> A brother who harms   you and threatens your existence is no  
>> longer a brother.
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> *** But what if your parents have inculcated that sibling enmity,  
> by their acts of commission or omission?  Should you, who is able  
> to reason ( hopefully that is), go seek an eye for an eye?
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>> A strong border protection force is needed to save Assam from  
>> these marauders.
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> **** That does make me feel good. Perhaps BSF would be a good  
> candidate, considering their flawless performance along the B'desh  
> border. Or better still it should be that two hundred thousand  
> strong Indian army in Assam in charge of ULFA hunting  -- no make  
> that PC Ram rescuing.  They ought to be able to do it, like they  
> are, again, at  the B'desh border or at Baksa.
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> But then again, I wonder, if mouthing off inanities as a substitute  
> for 'kando-gyan',  a hallmark of 'adhakhunda'  Indian intellectualism.
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> At 9:06 AM +0800 7/7/07, Jyotirmoy Sharma wrote:
>> Has the CM left the US? The seriousness of this issue should be  
>> highlighted to him.
>> We should celebrate or dance to Zubeen Garg's music but at the  
>> same time think of the people who are falling victims to Naga crimes.
>> Hopefully we don't hear statements like "have to maintain age old
>> brotherly relations" and forget about this issue. A brother who harms
>> you and threatens your existence is no longer a brother.
>> A strong border protection force is needed to save Assam from these
>> marauders. An indefinite road blockage of Nagaland through Assam  
>> is a good step in this direction.
>>
>> JS
>>
>>  From Assam Tribune Ediorial
>>
>> Criminal, Cowardly
>> Armed Naga marauders are in a habit of attacking villages in upper  
>> Asom because they know it well how ill-equipped the Asom police is  
>> in pushing them back to Nagaland, and how well-equipped and  
>> powerful they indeed are in comparison to the Asom police - backed  
>> as they are by the NSCN(I-M). Thursday's attack on the three  
>> villages - Sonapur, Dhekiajuri and Borholla - under Geleki police  
>> station in Sivasagar district is in fact a pointer to the  
>> increasing confidence of the Naga encroachers who are hell-bent on  
>> realizing the dream of a greater Nagaland. The inspiration for  
>> that comes from the NSCN(I-M) that still believes that the  
>> Government of India would finally concede to its demand for a  
>> greater Nagaland comprising large areas of Asom, Manipur and  
>> Arunachal Pradesh. So as the Naga marauders attack villages in  
>> Asom in a criminal and cowardly show of strength, they know the  
>> kind of homework they are doing at the behest of Naga militants  
>> who are otherwise said to be in a ceasefire mode with the  
>> Government of India - and hence who are expected to follow the  
>> ceasefire guidelines.
>> The commanding officer of the 1st Assam Police Battalion based at  
>> Ligeripukhuri in Sivasagar district, A Kuddus, has been quoted as  
>> saying that Thursday's carnage by the Nagas in the three villages  
>> of the district was a ''planned'' one. Two questions are in order,  
>> then. If the Nagas are so given to carrying out ''planned''  
>> attacks in upper Asom - instances galore - what stops the Asom  
>> police from planning a strategy, rightly contributed to by  
>> intelligence inputs, to counter the Naga design in full might? Its  
>> lack of training and expertise in dealing with such situations?  
>> Its stock of outdated arsenal? Or is it that the Asom police is  
>> afraid of confronting the Naga encroachers and their inspiration -  
>> the NSCN(I-M)? Secondly, and this follows from the first, what  
>> then stops the Asom Government from readying a police force  
>> capable of protecting the defenceless villagers in the areas in  
>> the State bordering Nagaland? A diversion to the security of the  
>> ordinary masses from the security at the disposal of our ministers  
>> - the so-called VVIPs with red lights atop their cars followed by  
>> a cavalcade well beyond anyone's imagination in a functioning  
>> democracy - may contribute a bit towards ensuring safety to  
>> ordinary lives in the areas in question.
>> Equally important is the fact that the Asomiyas, who have full  
>> faith in the Constitution of India, are being left at the mercy of  
>> the ULFA's terror tactics, the illegal Bangladeshis who have even  
>> encroached on the sattra land, and the Nagas now who are out to  
>> grab the land of innocent villagers in the State by terrorizing  
>> them. Is the Consitution then protecting us? More important, does  
>> Asom's most powerful 'representative', Prime Minister Dr Manmohan  
>> Singh, realize the gravity of the situation in his 'adopted'  
>> State? Let him now prove his commitment to the people of Asom!
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