[Assam] Sovereignty--cropper again?

[kamal deka]

You are right.Here is what Chidambaram said today.

" Defending freedom of speech, the home minister said, "Even extreme
ideology can be propagated in India. Speech and propagation is free in
a democracy. But when they (Naxals) take up arms against the state or
other sections of the people, the conflict arises."

"As long as we are sworn-in to democracy and republican government
there is no place for armed liberation struggle in that scenario," he
added.

Questioning the Maoists taking up arms, he said, "Show me one country
in the world where poverty and injustice were wiped out by arms."

He gave the examples of Malaysia, South Korea and Mauritius where
poverty was eliminated through socio-economic measures and not by
armed struggle.

"Are they trying to create an archaeological museum in the tribal
areas by keeping the tribals away from development," he asked.















On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi KJD,
>
> It doesn't matter what Dutta (in the AT) and what Brahma said in the
> Sentinel. In fact, it doesn't matter what
> any number of people in Assam or outside say. What really, really matters is
> what the handful of people wanting sovereignty. :-)
>
> That seems to be the logic played and replayed again & again.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM, kamal deka <kjit.deka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The following article featured in The Assam Tribune.The last
>> paragraph,in particular,drew my attention.
>> KJD
>>
>> http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=may0610,6,420,114,999,846
>>
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