Thursday, April 8, 2010
Now let the guns do talking
Time seems to be running out for the union government to act against rising Maoist insurgency in the recent times. Many experts attribute the unfortunate killing of 76 CRPF soldiers to the government taking the Naxal threat very lightly and made the security forces ‘sitting ducks’. There can be absolutely no reason to push the armed forces to the jaws of death when there were intelligence reports about the growing power and influence of the Maoists in Chhattisgarh,Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa. After such incident it becomes really difficult to understand the ideology behind any such act, which the Maoist claims. The Naxalite movement that started in India from Naxalbari, a small village in West Bengal, where an extremist section of Communist Party of India (Marxist) led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal began a violent uprising in 1967. The insurrection started on May 25, 1967, in Naxalbari village when a farmer was attacked over a land dispute. Maoists in the guise of farmers retaliated by attacking the landlords and the violence escalated.The ideology that once fought for the rights of the suppressed peasants and lower classes and tried to create an uprising to overthrow the government and upper classes whom they claimed to be responsible for the poor’s plight has somewhere totally lost its way. Today, most of the funding for the growing Maoist menace comes by oppressing the poor and by unlawful acts, including smuggling of poppy in the tribal areas of Orrisa. This is not the only thing. The Maoist have become a tool in the hands of some neighbouring countries who fund these organisations to push terrorism in India. How else does one describe the huge stockpile of arms and ammunition the Maoists have. May be this is the reason the Maoists view Islamist militancy as a struggle towards national liberation against imperialism and claims it to be an upsurge, which should not be opposed as it is basically anti-US and anti-Imperialist in nature. Time has come to take this threat very seriously. If the Moists are not contained at this point of time, the day is not far when this 'war' will not be confined to the ‘red corridor’ or few states but would engulf the whole country. Killing and exploitation against what the Naxal movement once stood for today stands on the corpses of innocent and poor. It’s high time to hit back and come to the rescue of poor beings. There is little scope for negotiations now. Sometimes the language of the gun has to be replied to in the same coin.
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