[Reader-list] The Naxalites overreached

[Pawan Durani]

It's high time that not only Maosists , but their supporters are
handled with iron fist.

Regards

Pawan


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Asit asitreds <asitredsalute at gmail.com> wrote:
> what about the voilence in gujrat bhagalpur etc which have killed hundred
> times more people than in dantewada
>  what about tens of thousands of noncobatant civilan population killed by
> security forces in northeast kashmir and punjab
> asit
>
>
> On 4/6/10, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> …and committed a strategic mistake at Dantewada
>>
>>
>> The reason why Naxalites have been able to sustain their insurgency
>> for so long is due to three main reasons: the absence or failure of
>> governance; the romanticism and propaganda of their overground
>> sympathisers; and, finally, due to the relatively subliminal nature of
>> their violence.
>>
>> To the extent that their violence was distributed in space and time
>> they could slip in and out of the public mind, pursue on-and-off talks
>> with state governments and generally avoid provoking the government
>> into hitting back hard. Over the last five years Naxalites have
>> violently expanded the geographical spread of their extortion and
>> protection rackets—yet, the violence in any given place and time has
>> been below a certain threshold. That threshold itself is high for a
>> number of reasons, including efforts by their sympathisers to
>> romanticise their violence, spectacular terrorist attacks by jihadi
>> groups and due to the remoteness of the areas of their operations.
>> This allowed Naxalites to get away with murder. A lot of times. In a
>> lot of places. Literally.
>>
>> But killing 73 out of 80 (or 120) CRPF and police personnel in a short
>> span of time in a single battle is no longer subliminal violence. In
>> all likelihood the Naxalites have crossed a threshold—this incident is
>> likely to stay much longer in the public mind and increase the
>> pressure on politicians to tackle the Naxalite threat with greater
>> resolve. Also, given that it has also become an issue of P
>> Chidambaram’s—and hence the UPA government’s—reputation, the gloves
>> are likely to come off in the coming weeks.
>>
>> There’s a chance that India’s psychological threshold is even higher.
>> But it is more likely that the Naxalites have overreached. Perhaps
>> their leadership has calculated that they are in the next stage of
>> their revolutionary war. If so, that would neither the first nor the
>> only delusion in their minds.
>>
>> http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2010/04/06/the-naxalites-overreached/
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