[Reader-list] The Naxalites overreached

[anupam chakravartty]

the blog says killing of indians by naxal...who is an indian and who
is a naxal?



On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indus-calling/entry/naxalites-in-delhi
>
> Seventy-six jawans who were on duty to fight the antinational and
> barbaric Communist terrorists were killed in an ambush and the home
> ministry says "there was an element of failure".
>
> This is not the time for a blame game. I wrote before too, "Support
> Chidambaram's war", though the home minister dithered in between and
> gave wrong signals to the Naxalites, hoping that they would listen to
> him and his badly produced ads. In a way, the Indian polity helps
> fissiparous tendencies. It's mired in taking revenge on Amitabh
> Bachchan and making a tamasha of a nikah, which is strictly a matter
> between two interested persons. Such a polity can issue carbon copies
> of the previous statements of sham condemnation but can't instil
> confidence in the citizens and the security forces. Ask Raman Singh,
> the brave face CM of Chhattisgarh, who has been struggling hard to
> tackle the Naxalite menace amid a volley of  attacks by Dilliwala
> Naxalites, who accused him of being harsh on the barbarians, and
> almost killed his Salwa Judum through false allegations.
>
> So far the government hasn't spoken about taking the war on the
> Communist terrorists to its logical end. Neither has it announced a
> free hand to the security persons to find, flush out and annihilate
> the cowardly terrorists who have become a bigger threat to the nation
> than the Pakistan-supported jihadis. It should be doing that
> immediately. Home secretary Gopal Pillay has rightly questioned "not
> only the CPI (Maoist) but also those who speak on their behalf and
> chastise the government' as to what was the motive behind the attack
> and what is the message the CPI (Maoist) intends to convey". The
> "jholawala" supporters of the Naxalites should also be booked for
> instigating murders and sedition.
>
> They are all Communists. They swear by Mao, Lenin and Stalin. Their
> loyalties are extraterritorial. Their sources of inspiration - all of
> them have smeared their hands in the blood of innocent people - from
> Lenin, Stalin and Mao to Pol Pot. And they have thrived so far in
> spite of having killed more than 6,000 Indian citizens and security
> personnel because there is a powerful lobby in Delhi which portrays
> them as revolutionaries and puts pressure on the government not to
> take any stern action. When a publishing house like Penguin chooses to
> publish a book of so-called poems of a jail inmate, a known supporter
> and the voice of the mass-killer Naxalites, Varavara Rao, what can be
> expected of the morale of those who are supposed to take on the
> barbarians to protect the Constitution? There is a socially
> desensitized section of the neo-rich enveloped in Anglo-Saxon
> traditions that has taken upon the "responsibility" to romanticize the
> butchers and win dollar awards.
>
> They are the writers, filmmakers and poster boys of the glitterati
> that find it fashionable to safeguard Maoists and have them as an
> acceptable phenomenon in a society that's described as (a positioning
> to justify the murders) 'ridden with corruption, administrative
> lethargy, rich class insensitive towards the poor and the
> downtrodden', etc. So the logic is, if there would be so much of
> political and administrative injustice to a large number of poor, they
> would, rise in revolt. Yeah, sounds good. Doesn't it? Poor revolting
> against the rich, burning their bungalows and establishing a just,
> fair and Communist reign of the proletariat!
>
> Like they did in Moscow and saw the disintegration of the Soviet
> Union? Like they did in Cambodia and saw the mass murder of 25% of the
> population? Like they did in China and saw millions killed and
> ultimately a Communist regime giving way to the market forces? There
> is not a single place on this earth, including the haven of the Red
> revolutionaries West Bengal where they have been able to establish a
> small corner that portrays the model success of their revolution. Bad
> roads, dillapidated schools, no industrialization, poverty-struck
> labour class and the fattened Commissars. That's the end result of
> their struggle. Naxals too become rogue armies, blackmailing gullible
> villagers and their kids to join their ranks, destroy schools, public
> health dispensaries and roads. They are, in the words of Chidambaram,
> just criminals.
>
> This must make Indian citizens to sit up and ask the media and the
> government some inconvenient questions. Did the Sania-Shoaib
> controversy really merit front page when the nation's foreign minister
> was in Beijing negotiating the country's most sensitive issues? Did
> Penguin do the right thing by publishing the so-called poems of a
> barbaric supporter of the mass murderers, giving him and the book a
> halo of revolutionary spirit, thus according the criminals a social
> sanction. Those who mock at the patriotic people and heroes like
> Savarkar, decorate gun runners who kill citizens with a sadistic
> pleasure? That lady, Arundhati they say is her name, with a penchant
> for laughing at the beheading of security personnel like Francis and
> eulogising in her inimitable de-Indianised style the savagery of the
> Naxals must be charged with sedition and supporting mass annihilators.
>
> Who were those seventy-six killed by the Naxal? And who felt happiness
> seeing their dead bodies? Who were the bereaved families and who were
> negotiating electoral alliances and secret pacts with the killers? The
> rebels or the antinational insurgent groups called Naxal, Maoist and
> Red revolutionaries have been working in 220 districts in 20 states
> and the government has established a special cell to monitor and
> resist them. They created a Red Corridor from Tirupati to
> Pashupatinath. Help from China to Nepalese Maoists to them has been
> suspected by Indian intelligence agencies. They are working against
> India and it's a war, in real sense. Still the rebels prove weightier
> than the patriotic jawans, who had nothing in their mind except to
> protect the citizens and the Indian constitution? Why? So far this is
> a skeleton of some official statistics describing killings of Indians
> by Naxals:
>
> 1996: 156 deaths
> 1997: 428 deaths
> 1998: 270 deaths
> 1999: 363 deaths
> 2000: 50 deaths
> 2001: 100+ deaths
> 2002: 140 deaths
> 2003: 451 deaths
> 2004: 500+ deaths
> 2005: 700+ deaths
> 2006: 750 deaths
> 2007: 650 deaths
> 2008: 794 deaths
> 2009: 1,134 deaths
>
> Why the sacred forces of the state die like cattle unsung and often
> insulted like it happened in the case of Inspector Mohan Lal Sharma
> and pilgrimages are organized to the homes of the terrorists in
> Azamgarh but none to the homes of the patriotic soldiers? Why it helps
> to be a terrorist in Delhi to remain safe and have civil rights
> committees to organise interviews in magazines and channels and its
> often embarrassingly deadly to be soldier, with none coming to hear
> their woes and interview the mother of the martyred?
>
> It is this Naxalism that needs to be crushed. They don't remove
> poverty through guns. They use poor to help their luxuries.
>