[Assam] Sovereignty Muddle - The Sentinel

[Chan Mahanta]

 >(1) Foreign hand (2) Failure of
t>he Government policies in respect of Assam (3) Some teenage  
boys........
 >Please try to find the pre-dominant cause.


*** Looking into causes cause headaches. Who needs that? It is far  
simpler to
blame the troublemakers and terrorists.





On May 1, 2010, at 10:46 PM, UTTAM BORTHAKUR wrote:

> Ram Da,
>
> Who decide in the Civil administration or the military hierarchy  
> where to
> post the security forces? That would give you the missing logic if you
> really try to see and consult books that have been written on  
> insurgency by
> more serious people tahn I am . It was the lad from Nagaland, who  
> scaled the
> Kargil heights, put bombs into the hideouts to snuff the last  
> resistance of
> the intruders. While climbing, he was ridden with bullets. He surely  
> did not
> neglect his duty like the bigwigs who looked the otherway when  
> intruders
> infiltrated the place. Sadly, he did not decide anything in the  
> army; but
> decided to lay down his life. It is the likes of the Navy commodore  
> who was
> given the assignment for buying ships from Russia but succumbed to  
> lure of
> the flesh and money  who decide things. In Assam, or in any  
> sensitive zone,
> these people are in a position to loot. That a thousand crore scam  
> can take
> place in a state like Assam is enough indication as to how  
> uncertainty can
> help corruption. Here, it would be better to appreciate things from  
> an a
> posteriori position than an a priori one. Here. security forces of  
> all hues,
> including Assam Police, have access to huge amount of money for the  
> sake of
> insurgency or special operations. For the sake of secrecy, those are  
> not
> subject to audit. Due to insurgency, the security forces can harass  
> people
> in one pretext or the other, and indulge in even land grabbing and  
> aiding
> the real estate business. There are so many ways, that a well placed  
> person
> in the security forces can easily earn fabulous wealth if insurgency
> continues; it has been the saga of the NE for so long that one has  
> to put on
> blinkers not to see it or too far off that those are not visible.  
> The Jawans
> also get petty shares; the permission to molest, keep some loot for
> themselves to post Kishan Vikash Patras home; after all they are the  
> ones
> that usually get the bullets of the insurgents. The buckles of the  
> bigwigs
> remain untainted; shine with the touch of Brasso.
>
> But I do not expect that I shall ever be able to convince you or  
> anyone
> through e- mails; time will only tell whose view was nearer to the  
> truth.
> Hawking has recently come up with the conclusion that our present  
> selects
> our past; things cannot be predicted a priori, but can only be traced
> through a posteriori logic.
>
> Now, why has the ULFA movement begin: (1) Foreign hand (2) Failure of
> the Government policies in respect of Assam (3) Some teenage  
> boys........
> Please try to find the pre-dominant cause. May be you'll be able to
> appreciate faintly what I am referring to. If you do not see it; I  
> cannot do
> anything about it. We have a paradigm difference of views.
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