[Reader-list] siliguri

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Yasir
 
The video shows policemen using lathis on some men in civilian clothes so do not understand reference to some "regiment" being beaten up.
 
Who is being beaten up and for what reason cannot be inferred from the video.
 
There is a Gorkhaland movement which primarily demands a seperate administrative unit (State). Apart from vague whiffs, I do not know of it being 'separatist' or with a 'Govt in Exile' or with a 'Rebel Army' which would have a 'Gorkha Regiment'.
 
There are Gorkha Regiments in the Indian Army. It would be much more like that they would be beating up the Police in a confrontation.
 
It may be so that the video is of some Gorkhalanders being lathi-charged. 
 
Kshmendra


--- On Wed, 5/6/09, yasir ~يا سر <yasir.media at gmail.com> wrote:

From: yasir ~يا سر <yasir.media at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] siliguri
To: "Sarai Reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 10:03 PM

ok.
the title is :
*
Lathi Charge in Siliguri against Indian Gorkha Regiment by West Bengal
Police*

how can the police beat up the Indian Gorkha Regiment ??*
*isn't it more common the other way round. you cant mess with the army?*

*

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:23 PM, subhrodip sengupta <sub_sengupta at yahoo.co.in
> wrote:

> What else than the police seeking revenge, and using muscle power and
human
> right violation as tools to establish their supremacy!
>
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> *From:* yasir ~يا سر <yasir.media at gmail.com>
> *To:* sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 4:05:25 PM
> *Subject:* [Reader-list] siliguri
>
> so what is going on here?  i dont understand the title. best.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvaCr1lPD6k
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