[Assam] Naga attacks on Assam

[Jyotirmoy Sharma]

>> We(Assam) have been at the receiving end all the time.
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> *** OK, can we ask who the villains might be? I have an idea, but  
> let us get it clearly stated.

What I meant was about Assam losing territory to our neighbouring  
state. The villains are our elected representatives. Can't hold India  
responsible for that. We have a habit of blaming the country for all  
our ills. We forget that Assam has been cheated by it's own people.


> *** OK, since I am uneducated about Naga ethics, I will go along  
> with the verdict.  So, does it mean therefore that Assam ought to  
> react the same way and declare that Nagas quit Assam  too? And if  
> done, who will enforce the notice?

I have already stated that a tit for tat response will spell  
disaster. AASU has done good by calling for an economic blockage of  
Nagaland. This will ensure that Nagaland Govt, NSF and NSCN cannot  
take Assamese for granted. I am sure that the above groups including  
the Assam Govt/AASU would finally have to sit down together. Our  
position should be clear and concise- that Assam's land is not for  
sale or for forcible annexation.

>> ---but we must do whatever is necessary to protect our people.
This includes raising a border protection force by Assam Police. Ok  
forgetting past records, I don't think why this is an impossibility.  
After all a whole task force was created by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka  
to nab sandalwood smuggler Veerapan.
I would hate to think of the idea of having to arm Assamese villagers  
along the border.


> ** Are they expected to be sociologists too? And if they are, as  
> implied, what do they know about Assam problems or Assamese  
> aspirations? But they treat Assam as their 'poitrik xompotti' and  
> do not hesitate to gun down Assamese merely on suspicion of being a  
> 'terrorist', don't they? Is that acceptable?*
Killing of innocent people is not acceptable - not by the BSF/CRPF or  
any other group.



On 07/07/2007, at 9:39 PM, Chan Mahanta wrote:

> At 12:01 PM +0800 7/7/07, Jyotirmoy Sharma wrote:
>> We(Assam) have been at the receiving end all the time.
>
>
> *** OK, can we ask who the villains might be? I have an idea, but  
> let us get it clearly stated.
>
>> An Assam attack on Nagaland would probably have been met with a  
>> quit notice to all Assamese in >Nagaland.
>
>
> *** OK, since I am uneducated about Naga ethics, I will go along  
> with the verdict.  So, does it mean therefore that Assam ought to  
> react the same way and declare that Nagas quit Assam  too? And if  
> done, who will enforce the notice?
>
> 	*** Assam police ?
> 	*** Indian BSF?
> 	*** CRPF?
> 	*** ULFA?
>
> 	Who?
>
>
>> ---but we must do whatever is necessary to protect our people.
>
> *** What could that be, in view of the admonition "--Hopefully we  
> don't hear statements like "have to maintain age old brotherly  
> relations" ?
>
> 	*** Assamneters' 'gorihona' ?
> 	*** Raising of an Assam Border Protection Force by the sovereign  
> government of Assam?
> 	*** Taunts to ULFA daring them to return to Assam to serve as ABPF?
> 	*** Something else?
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>
>> 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.
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> *** What is Assam police's sixty years of track record in doing  
> anything?  Anything to show as an example on which one could build  
> a bit of  trust?  Besides, where would Assam POlice get the  
> resources for building  an  ABPF  ?
>
> For that matter what is Indian govts' track record in border  
> protection for the last sixty years? And they are the smart ones  
> with all the resources, aren't they?
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>> BSF and say CRPF do >not understand Assam-Naga problems.
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> ** Are they expected to be sociologists too? And if they are, as  
> implied, what do they know about Assam problems or Assamese  
> aspirations? But they treat Assam as their 'poitrik xompotti' and  
> do not hesitate to gun down Assamese merely on suspicion of being a  
> 'terrorist', don't they? Is that acceptable?*
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>> 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"
>>>
>>>
>>> *** Why? Is it subversive? Uncivilized?
>>>
>>>> A brother who harms   you and threatens your existence is no  
>>>> longer a brother.
>>>
>>> *** 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?
>>>
>>>> A strong border protection force is needed to save Assam from  
>>>> these marauders.
>>>
>>> **** 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.
>>>
>>> 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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