[Assam] Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept

[subhash medhi]

I did not find any idiocy in that article.

But i would like to another angle to the issue.In one of the recent
issues in Frontline, it was shown how the Salwa Judum is torturing
their very own tribal people.Salwa Judum(meaning peace hunt in the
native tongue) has been created by the government.Its recruits are
tribal youths only. But the Salwa Judum, though it had been
constituted to fight the Maoists, is actually targeting innocent
tribals,those who are not even having the remotest links with the
Maoists.One cannot describe the gruesome atrocities committed by the
Salwa Judum on the tribals. Many killed. Whole villages have been
burnt down.People out of fear of the Judum have fled their villages
and taken refuge in the forests.But the Judum does never confront the
Maoists.The ulterior motive might be that the Judum and the Maoists
both are having the government's tacit support.The Judum may have been
created to clear the villages of their inhabitants so that
multinationals could come and start their operations to scoop out the
rich minerals hidden far below the ground in those areas.

Subhash


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