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

Mon Sep 22 10:05:48 PDT 2008

I have a younger sister. During the course of any argument she shifts grounds. It is very difficult to lead a discourse.

 If we remember correctly, the question was whether we deserve to be looted. In the same way we do not want that 'profit' is to be private in the Wall Street when "loss" is to be socialised, because it is simply a loot and sheer hypocrisy of the system, we want to be treated equally. The remote part of Gujarat should demand equality with Ahmedabad, because city should not prosper at the cost of hinterland.  

Even the professed aim of so called Globalisation was decentralisation of capital; but after more than a decade the net flow of capital is not towards underdeveloped world,but to the Centre. The underdeveloped world has to fight it. How does one justify huge food wastage in the US (say), when many people across the globe goes without food. Even in the US, I reckon, right at this moment, even the middle class is facing problem and just imagine how 12% poor of that country should manage.

Of course, the looters in a system would surely have their local cronies; but does it justify the loot? 

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: Monday, 22 September, 2008 8:30:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] [News Alert] More than 20 dead after inhaling poisonous gas in Karbi Anglong

Let's say that some netters have grown accustomed to blaming the centre for
all the ills plaguing Assam. If you look closely at who has cheated whom,
you will find that it's mostly the Assamese people who have cheated their
own - Congress, AGP, ULFA, Congress .... The rest of India is not a
developed heaven but is pretty much same or even worse than many parts of NE
India. If you do get a chance, visit some remote corners of so called
developed states like Gujarat. You will see that people in villages in Assam
and other parts of NE India have a better living standard than them. Tribals
of NE India are better educated and even enjoy lifestyle which is beyond the
wildest dreams of tribals in say Gujarat, Jharkhand, AP.
It's not that money is not pouring into the region. NE India probably gets
much more funding that many other states of India of similar size. But where
is the development? Where is the money going? It must be some local people
who would have siphoned off the money.
Yet we say that we have been cheated for 60 long years. You can get fooled
once, the next time you turn out a clever individual. But to be repeatedly
cheated for 60 years means that we are just too primitive to think on our
own. Or just that, we don't care.
Let's take a few examples:
- Immigrants become the majority in our land. The Govt sits back and
relaxes. Votes and political seat count more than any patriotic zeal for
motherland.
- Neighbourbouring states hell bent on usurping border areas. We sit back
and relax. After all brotherly relations have to be maintained. and why does
a few Assamese people's lives in border areas matter?
- Industries ( OIL/ONGC/ Tea ) all declared looters. Are they not employing
people, given some people some means of livelihood? If not, how are they
still operating in the region? New industries, if they decide to come to
Assam will be declared looters eventually. Is this mentality not surprising?
Infosys, Wipro, Tata, Reliance are companies of repute elsewhere in the
country but some netters will declare them looters if they decide to come to
Assam.
Why work at all, when kidnapping, extortions have become the in-thing and a
quick and easy step towards success? Any wonder why extremism has become a
large scale cottage industry in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland.

JS

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:02 AM, uttam borthakur <
uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in> 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>> >
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