[Reader-list] The Naxalites overreached

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Rakesh ,

Crushing the naxalism and naxalites has become imperative. Govt has
given them enough chance and each time they have responded with an
even worse act. The killers dont need any sympathy.

Ofcourse , it is important for Govt to ensure that innocents are not victimised.

Pawan

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Pawan
>
> This is highly atrocious of you to state things without even understanding
> the ground realities. You are talking of crushing the Maoists. Such crushing
> is only possible if we completely bomb out the area. Are you thinking of
> that? In other words, are you going to create an Afghanistan or Vietnam
> within India?
>
> You can't identify who is a Naxal from who is not a Naxal in the villages.
> The Naxals don't wear a uniform. You don't have intelligence on how they
> conduct their operations. You don't even have an idea of how many people are
> there as Naxalites. Neither are you willing to look at the causes of how
> tribals become Naxalites. You don't try to address the real issues like
> poverty, lack of employment and displacement of tribals. Neither do you
> ensure administrative, police or judicial reforms. And then, without doing
> anything of this, you agree to using force against your own citizens and
> fellow human beings.
>
> You talk about Kashmir. People like you have forgotten that Kashmiri
> separatists are still there because people don't trust the Indian state. To
> ensure that India wins Kashmir for once and for all, a mass slaughter of all
> Kashmiri Muslims would have to be organized. Are you ready for that? If you
> can't accept that to Kashmiri Pandits, would you accept that for Kashmiri
> Muslims? Or are you communal or strategically minded to pursue gains only
> for your community?
>
> All those here talking about crushing the Maoists or separatists or
> terrorists. Remember this. All counter-insurgency measures across the world
> have been a failure with the exception of one, as told by a professor to me.
> This one was in Malaysia, where the British successfully fought the
> Communist insurgencies. How? Simple. Instead of confronting the insurgency
> militarily, they strengthened the development and administrative machinery.
> They won over the people. Result was that the insurgency was successfully
> defeated.
>
> All others, be it Kashmir or anti-Naxal operations, have failed and failed
> most miserably. You may not care, but I care about the soldiers who reside
> in Kashmir only to develop psychiatric disorders and coming out to home and
> not able to lead lives peacefully. Now the army also complains of stresses
> in Kashmir. Aren't they too human beings?
>
> Find where the problem lies. Understand who is creating violence, and why,
> for then it becomes easier to counter him/her.
>
> Rakesh
>