[Reader-list] The Naxalites overreached

[anupam chakravartty]

Rahul

We do not stay under a totalitarian regime for you to say that state
should be the only force to exercise violence. state should rather be
a facilitator to create conditions by which opposing parties could
surrender themselves.

Anupam

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr Malik ,
>
> And then there are covert statement which i find quite amusing . Must
> admire the the overground  'intellectuals & liberals' ...
>
> ...........Shuddha wrote ">>>>> The taking of human life is never
> something we need to celebrate. The deaths  of the more than 75 people
> in an ambush is not something that anyone can  exult over. But, to be
> fair, if this party, which was on an 'area domination exercise' came
> across a squad of Maoists who happened to be less prepared than them,
> the killed would have been the killers. These two forces are at war,
> and in a war, combatants are not expected to shoot to kill, not to
> hold their fire.
>
> I do not have to explain further what these words were ......I
> personally find it a justification for the ambush ...
>
> Pawan
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:11 PM, A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Dear Durani Sahib,
>>                  I fully agree with you. However, the record of the current governance in the country is dismal.They may say they will deal with it firmly but ultimately the Govt buckles under pressure from various quarters including the supporters. No one can justify what is being done by the Maoists. I don't know in what way Asit is trying to justify the same.
>> Regards,
>>
>> (A.K.MALIK)
>>
>>
>> --- On Wed, 4/7/10, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The Naxalites overreached
>>> To: "Asit asitreds" <asitredsalute at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
>>> Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 2:22 PM
>>> 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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