India needs one stern policy,"Any group or an individual who takes up arms against a Govt, either state or central, for any cause whatsoever, whoever supports them, individual/group, by providing media coverage, support in any form, financial, moral, medical, logistical should be automatically deemed a Terrorist Organisation without any deliberation. And such organizations must be punished ruthlessly." By taking arms, the cause is lost fundementally in a Democratic society. No cause can ever be achieved by armed struggle. We can look around our subcontinent for proof. And if you take China, the armed revolution has resulted in no basic human rights. Democratic, unarmed protestors were bulldozed in the heart of Beijing. Choosing to protest with violent means equates to threatening the Govt. A Govt should not let itself be threatened in any way. Threatening an elected govt mounts to mocking the Democarcy and the beliefs of the majority. The business of negotiating with such terror outfits should be summarily stopped. Talk to the govt but you cannot threaten the govt. Sitting at the negotiating table with an AK47 slung across the shoulder means, "do what I/We want or face my bullet". Take the classic example of AP. Negotiations are on with Naxals and the truce offered by the new govt is being freely used to rearm, recruit and regroup by the naxals. Our politicians will not learn lessons from the sacrifices being made by the police. The naxals tried to kill the former CM, who waged a war on naxals. The new CM decided to stop the war and talk to them. So the naxals have won what they needed. They brought the state to the negotiating table. Doesn't this mean an elected govt is feeling threatened by an armed group? The state has all the resources with them to crush this militancy. How many more such govt will buckle under the pressure of a gun? Put in the otherway, how many more times, we the people are going to elect such cowards. On the other side, the causes for such problems should be identified and corrected. I dont give a clean chit to the govt either. The dismal failures of successive govts in carrying out developmental works in the affected areas aggravated the situation. But armed struggle is no solution to any cause. Being the country where the Ahimsa was perfected just 50 years back, resorting armed struggle for a cause is very disturbing. An armed struggle can easily lose its track. Afghanistan, jihadis fought Soviets, then they fought among themselves. Now they fight the US. Tomorrow, who knows??? But what is sure is they will fight someone. A generation of warlords produces yet another one. A warlike situation kills every avenue to express your opinion and objective thinking. And hence such struggles never achieve their objective. With growing communication links, the armed groups form networks worldwide. Naxals in AP are in a joint venture with Nepali Maoists. Maoists fight Nepali govt backed by India. So the naxals are now conspiring against the Indian govt. Should we not term them as Anti-Nationals? Do we invite them for talks? Politicians, we know your are politicians because your are not good at anything else. What should we call the ones who elect them? ********, ******, **** !!!!
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Negotiating with naxals or terrorists is considered a step backwards by many nations. Recently Putin towed a pretty firm line in refusing to negotiate with the Russian rebels and bombers. India, however does not have a clear policy, nor history towards dealing with armed combatants. More often than not we have agreed to talks with the naxalites or terrorists in view of some progress which could be achieved. But as these talks rarely centre around the crux of the discontentment of those who take up arms against the govt, only temporary peaks within the peace process are achieved.
As you said about the taliban/al-quaeda .. But what is sure is they will fight someone.: this is very true .. many of these combatants are unemployed. If they had decent jobs which could earn them their livelihood, very few would have ventured into this terrorism stuff. Likewise in India too. The people who respond to calls for combat .. be it the naxalites or those who storm ayodhya .. if they had a proper livelihood .. they wouldnt leave it all and attend to the rest. Poverty and lack of proper opportunity to get out of it is a deadly mix for all types of crime.
- anya http://www.animaha.com/blog
Negotiating with naxals or terrorists is considered a step backwards by many nations. Recently Putin towed a pretty firm line in refusing to negotiate with the Russian rebels and bombers. India, however does not have a clear policy, nor history towards dealing with armed combatants. More often than not we have agreed to talks with the naxalites or terrorists in view of some progress which could be achieved. But as these talks rarely centre around the crux of the discontentment of those who take up arms against the govt, only temporary peaks within the peace process are achieved.
As you said about the taliban/al-quaeda .. But what is sure is they will fight someone.: this is very true .. many of these combatants are unemployed. If they had decent jobs which could earn them their livelihood, very few would have ventured into this terrorism stuff. Likewise in India too. The people who respond to calls for combat .. be it the naxalites or those who storm ayodhya .. if they had a proper livelihood .. they wouldnt leave it all and attend to the rest. Poverty and lack of proper opportunity to get out of it is a deadly mix for all types of crime.
- anya http://www.animaha.com/blog
Yes Anirudha you are right in saying lack of livelihood is the root cause. If you see the Arab population, there is a generation of youngsters who have no skills to compete with the rest of the world and the saddest aspect is all the petro dollars have gone into some pocket. There is no univ or a research institute in the Arab region. So there people are now carried away by the calls for jihad.
Yes Anirudha you are right in saying lack of livelihood is the root cause. If you see the Arab population, there is a generation of youngsters who have no skills to compete with the rest of the world and the saddest aspect is all the petro dollars have gone into some pocket. There is no univ or a research institute in the Arab region. So there people are now carried away by the calls for jihad.
Threatening an elected govt mounts to mocking the Democarcy and the beliefs of the majority.The game works both ways Maverick. What if the elected govt. mocks democracy?
A democracy ain't no democracy unless the people have concrete rights to throw politicians out of their offices.
Yeah, I never denied that Govt does not mock the democracy. My whole article is about how everyone of us is mocking it. We the people do not elect the right people. The vote is the "concrete right" you talk about. Criminals get into politics and they get elected too, thats why criminals get into politics. So again teh democracy gets mocked here. And govt does nothing right and good, so they take a turn on mocking the democracy. So everyone of us is mocking it in our own ways.
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