[Assam] [News Alert] More than 20 dead after inhaling poisonous gas in Karbi Anglong

[Alpana B. Sarangapani]

> > The victim sings paens in glory of the master and demeans himself.> > *** The masters have programmed their servants well.
 
Surely not enough to justify the act of thieves and robbers!! 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength the latter becomes irresistible."-Mahatma Gandhi, 1931
 

“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass.”
  
 > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:24:58 -0500> To: assam at assamnet.org> From: cmahanta at charter.net> Subject: Re: [Assam] [News Alert] More than 20 dead after inhaling poisonous gas in Karbi Anglong> > Well said Uttam.> > > The victim sings paens in glory of the master and demeans himself.> > *** The masters have programmed their servants well.> > > > > > > > > > > At 9:32 PM +0530 9/21/08, uttam borthakur wrote:> >"A crime is a crime, no matter how big or how small.> >Pity the refineries did not make it more convenient for the looters.> >If we are getting looted since 1960 and still are, then probably we deserve> >it. After all, it only happens in Assam."> >> >A crime is surely a crime. Retribution ought to follow. But if we in > >Assam deserve crime against us in larger scale and there should be > >no retribution, then by what sense of justice do we mete > >out retribution to or condemnation of petty crimes that are > >ultimately direct and/or indirect result of the bigger crimes > >against Assam. Jews were killed by Nazis; did they deserve it? > >Israel and the US bomb innocents on the plea of fight against > >terror; do those people deserve it? The North East has been used as > >hinterland for long, why should we deserve it? Say, we do not have a > >strong lobby at the centre, does it give license for someone to loot > >us? Does the law of the land say that? If due to underdevelopment > >and unemployment some people out of desperation take to theft and > >robbery, how can we say they should be punished when we condone the > >loot on us as god ordained? We have been indoctrinated to be servile > >to the authority, however rapacious. In> > fact, more authoritarian the authority, the ideologies of the > >victor and the victim merge. The victim sings paens in glory of the > >master and demeans himself. It is always easier to humiliate the > >weak: hola gosot bagi kuthar. Such weakness usually has a history > >that can be looked into.> >> >> >Uttam Kumar Borthakur> >> >> >> >----- Original Message ----> >From: Jyotirmoy Sharma <jyotirmoy.sharma at gmail.com>> >To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the > >world <assam at assamnet.org>> >Sent: Sunday, 21 September, 2008 7:18:44 PM> >Subject: Re: [Assam] [News Alert] More than 20 dead after inhaling > >poisonous gas in Karbi Anglong> >> >A crime is a crime, no matter how big or how small.> >Pity the refineries did not make it more convenient for the looters.> >If we are getting looted since 1960 and still are, then probably we deserve> >it. After all, it only happens in Assam.> >JS> >> >> >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:43 AM, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:> >> >>> >> < "20 dead after attempted robbery of a goods train" would be more>> >> appropriate.> They( the thugs ) deserve our sympathy, do they?>> >> ---------------------> >> But who was Robbing whom since 1960.> >> And who was poisoning whom?> >> Not so straightforward ,is it?> >> mm> >>> >> > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:16:54 +0800> From: jyotirmoy.sharma at gmail.com>> >> To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: Re: [Assam] [News Alert] More than 20> >> dead after inhaling poisonous gas in Karbi Anglong> > The heading of this> >> mesasge "20 dead after inhaling poisonous gas in KA" is> a bit misleading.> >> Shame on the media again!> "20 dead after attempted robbery of a goods> >> train" would be more> appropriate.> They( the thugs ) deserve our sympathy,> >> do they?> JS> > > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 5:15 PM, uttam borthakur <> >> uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in> > wrote:> > > Mahanta Da> >> > That was some> >> good information. How the US stifle any pro- consumer move> > affecting its> >> big buiness: the real face of the not so democratic state.> > Also the> >> information about connivance of the NAM leader in producing inhuman> > war> >> accessories.> >> > We were taught that DHON GULOI is methane: swamp gas. My> >> science does not> > extend beyond intermediate. So I tried to put two and> >> two together.> >> > Uttam Kumar Borthakur> >> >> >> > ----- Original Message> >> ----> > From: mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com>> > To: A Mailing list for> >> people interested in Assam from around the world <> > assam at assamnet.org>>> > > > Sent: Saturday, 20 September, 2008 12:32:42 PM> > Subject: Re: [Assam]> >> [News Alert] More than 20 dead after inhaling> > poisonous gas in Karbi> >> Anglong> >> >> > <Poisonous Gas that explodes: Do they carry methane or does> >> methane come> > piggyback with crude? Or somebody was carrying poisonous gas> >> for defoliation> > and counter-insurgency?>> >> > Gas for defoliation : Not> >> likely.> >> > And Assam has no PetroChemicals industry -Except for a tiny> >> Methanol plant> > at Namrup.> > Methanol is poison if you ingest. It does> >> burn however . In fact M85 (85%> > Methanol+15%Gasoline)was standard motor> >> fuel in California for many years> > till banneed by Swaznegger on> >> "Environmentally bad if spilled " alibi. Truth> > was Refineries did not> >> loke this cheap fuel--and Bush told the Terminator to> > terminate. And Auto> >> suppliers to USA were told-'Stop offering multifuel> > cars'. Yes this could> >> have been Methanol-caught flame from a spark.> > Methanol Tanker Goods Wagon> >> will be easy to open--not under Pressure.> >> > Defoliant Gas ( produced by> >> UnionCarbide in Bhopal was good Dollar earning> > export Hush -Hush) to US-> >> Vietnam war!-- well known to India Leadership> > -killed/maimed/blinded how> >> many in 1984?.> > For counter-insurgency? That would have been INDIAN Hara> >> Kiri.> >> > By the way war the train travelling UP--to Upper Assam or Down> >> ?> >> > Poor Reporting all over !> >> > mm> >> >> >> -----------------------------> > > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:09:00 +0530>> >> From: uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in>> > To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: Re:> >> [Assam] [News Alert] More than 20> > dead after inhaling poisonous gas in> >> Karbi Anglong> > *** Poisonous Gas that> > explodes: Do they carry methane> >> or does methane come piggyback with crude?> > Or somebody was carrying> >> poisonous gas for defoliation and> > counter-insurgency? > > > Uttam Kumar> >> Borthakur> > > > ----- Original> > Message ----> From: mc mahant <> >> mikemahant at hotmail.com>> To: Assam Times <> > newsletter at assamtimes.org>;> >> assam at assamnet.org> Sent: Saturday, 20> > September, 2008 11:02:29 AM>> >> Subject: Re: [Assam] [News Alert] More than 20> > dead after inhaling> >> poisonous gas in Karbi Anglong> > > <wagon full of> > poisonous gas, it> >> exploded leaving >> > > Crude Oil- Where from -was going> > to where?Crude> >> Oil travels in the 16" Pipe to Refineries> Crude Oil Tanker> > carries> >> liquid. Where from GAS and which Petroleum Gas is poisonous?>> > Exploded?> >> Means it was a> > high Pressure LPG wagon. LPG will engulf ina flame-- not> >> explode> mm> > >> > > > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:22:51 +0530From:> >> newsletter at assamtimes.orgTo:> > news at list.assamtimes.orgSubject: [News> >> Alert] More than 20 dead after> > inhaling poisonous gas in Karbi> >> AnglongMore than 20 dead after inhaling> > poisonous gas in Karbi Anglong20> >> September, 2008 08:32:00> More than 20> > people died and around 40 others> >> have fallen seriously ill after inhaling> > poisonous gas when they went to> >> pilfer crude oil at Chaiding in Karbi> > Anglong district on Friday> >> midnight.According to information, a group of> > around 70 people from the> >> area halted a goods train at Chaiding between> > Dhansiri and Rangapahar and> >> tried to unload crude oil from a wagon.As they> > started opening the wagon> >> full of poisonous gas, it exploded leaving more> > than twenty people dead> >> on the spot. More than forty who were also among> > these gathered to pilfer> >> crude oil have fallen seriously ill. Notably, two> > NSCN(IM) cadres> > are> >> also in the list of the deceased. Some of the seriously ill people> > have> >> been rushed to Dimapur Civil Hospital while some others have been> >> >> admitted to the Dhansiri Civil Hospital.Twenty dead bodies have been> >> >> recovered but some bodies have been lifted before the morning fearing some>> >> > other sensational revelations.It may be recalled that for the last>> >> couple> > of months, some miscreants aided and abetted by a section of NF> >> Railway> > officials unload crude oil at gunpoint. The Friday midnight> >> incident was one> > of the attempts Details are awaited.> >> > > http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/2074.html>> >> >> _________________________________________________________________> Search> >> >> for videos of Bollywood, Hollywood, Mollywood and every other wood, only on>> >> > Live.com > http://www.live.com/?scope=video&form=MICOAL>> >> >> _______________________________________________> assam mailing list>> >> >> assam at assamnet.org>> >> >> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > > > Did you> >> >> know?> > You can CHAT without downloading messenger. 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