[Assam] Sovereignty Muddle - The Sentinel

[Ram Sarangapani]

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

Simple solutions for simple people. :-)

Uttam, I'll write a bit later to your post.

--Ram
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote:

> >(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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