[Assam] Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept

[uttam borthakur]

>From BC to AD: armed revolutions, sucessful or failed, have been taking place in different ways and fro different reasons.
 
In India, in Afghanistan, in China, in Russia, in Latin America, in Europe, the middle-east.... everywhere, it has never really stopped. If America has to stop its food stamps and  its medicaid for some reason or other, you cannot vouchsafe that there would not be armed rebellion there as well in that land where guns are aplenty and where there are not so infrequent episodes of gruesome proportions where individuals gun down school students  for no rhyme nor reason. There is sufficient fissile material there; and though it is not very probable right now; but who can say? For that, who did know that a coup would shape up in Moscow in the last part of twentieth century; and the whole communist edifice would crumble  within weeks from the onslaught of a drunken freak, the friend of the civilized west, which does not believe in carving up Iraq into zones to rob its oil to keep its own citizens in good humour so that armed revolts do not occur in
 its citadel. 
 
Self-preservation is a basic instinct. None wants to be a part of such a dangerous thing that threatens one's own life. Yet, such things are always happening;  that it is happening is why a person like Kamath is proclaiming its obsolescence. 
 
I find it funny though; how can an obsolete thing rake up such a debate?
 
I had heard no body kicks a dead dog!
 
May be, things have changed and this saying is not in vogue these days; and my ignorance may be because I am an anachronistic joke.
 
 
Is there a peaceful revolt in Thailand? If so, why is its regime using arms to smoke out rebels? Funny!  


Uttam Kumar Borthakur