Why They attacked the poll parties? There was no green hunt at that time. Instead of bullet they would have chosen ballot. If they are in 150 dist, they could have easily got 50 seats and pursuaded the govt to tow there line.
The naxals fight elections? Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Why would they fight elections? Their entire ideology is based on fighting a parliamentary system of government. Why would they go against their own ideology? It's like me suggesting that those goose stepping RSS fascists should become Communist. Is that really going happen?
Mining companies may not have been there before but that does not mean there wasnt oppression. You think the naxals have popular support only because of the mining deals signed by the government? Operation Greenhunt may be about Mining companies but the larger problem has to do with the complete and total neglect and the violence that these people have faced at the hands of the state.
If you have popular support, you can win elections and address the problems, but thats 'difficult' eh? easier to instead blame everything on capitalism while worshipping china every morning.
The Maoists don't support China. The original naxalite movement under Charu Majumdar may have, but right now China is a one party capitalist dictatorship that has rejected Maoist ideology and embraced capitalism. Why would a revolutionary peasant movement support it?
Think before you talk people.
The assumption you are making is that the "majority" are not intellectually capable of sifting through and making up their minds but you have that quality in abundance. A bit condescending, what?
That is indeed an assumption. But considering the chest thumping stupidity on display in this thread, not an incorrect one.
The truth is, the majority of us live in a bubble. We have all the comforts of the new India. The government more often than not works for us. We can't imagine a situation where a community would go against a government elected to represent them. There is a failure to understand the reasons for this conflict on all levels. Reading reports on poverty in these areas does not do it justice. It needs to be seen to be believed.
Just imagine a place where there are no schools, no hospitals, no development to speak of, a place where day to day existence is extremely difficult, a place where a government only exists on paper and the elected representatives only visit once a year during election time. A place where landlords, in connivance with the police, rule the roost and engage in random acts of violence against you or your family. The land that you till is the only hope of survival. Now, after years, nay, decades of neglect, the government comes and tells you that you need to sell of your land to make way for an industry, and if you try to protest the police beats you up or puts you behind bars for being a Maoist. In such a place, why the hell won't someone pick up a gun to fight the government?
You might think this is an extreme situation and that it's not really as bad as this. You're right, its not as bad as this. It's worse. We have all read our History books which praise people like Bhagat Singh who tried to use violence against the government, albeit a foreign one, why is it then so difficult to understand the Tribal populations motivation to pick up a gun?
By the way, Bhagat Singh was also a communist.
Does it never occur to you that you may be the one brainwashed?
No. Because when you break free from certain shackles placed on the mind in society, you are able to see through everything. This doesn't make me special, it is a result of the education that i have received.
So what? Happens all the time in conflict zones.
That is the reason that the government gives us. Any right thinking individual can see through it.
I for one wouldn't want our visual media anywhere after the way they behaved during 26/11.
I have been critical of the media's coverage of the terrorists attacks that resulted in casualties in the Taj in the past. However that does not mean i would disbar them from reporting on an issue.
Yeah! That's how the economy works.
Yes exactly. The media's dependence on corporates means that they cannot ever be critical of them. Fantastic, isnt it?
Do you now want to ban the media altogether?
I'm not the one advocating a ban on the media. You are. All i want is a media that is unbiased it's coverage. Is that too much?
No doubt in your minds. Plenty of doubt in mine.
We shall see five years down the line whose assessment was accurate.
Not seen one argument of why everyone in different parties want to help them. You call everyone agents of this MNC or the other and don't think that as name calling?
Do you not have the ability to read and think at the same time? I have been quite clear in putting forth my arguments.
Pseudo nationalism to you, not to me. In any case i am not here to post maoist propaganda, i'll leave that to you. To each our own !
Maoists propaganda? Hmmm, this is another major problem about this conflict. Every time someone is critical of the governments actions, he or she is called a Maoist sympathizer. The imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen is an example of this.
To paraphrase a famous saying, "If i give money to the poor, they call me a saint. But if i ask why they are poor, they call me a Maoist"
Since you are new here, let me put it across to you simply. I am as critical of the Maoists as i am of the government. I believe that they have replaced the government as being an alternate power structure that is equally oppressive. I do not believe in their ideology of revolutionary violence. Any change for me must come through a democratic government that is accountable and not through violent mass movements that have a tendency to lead to autocratic oppressive states. This however does not mean that i cannot see thorough our governments BS, a government i helped elect i might add.
I would rather have that then risk a khymer rouge type of situation with millions of deaths. The Maoist are welcome to talk, just not with a gun to our heads. I am not willing to surrender even if you are asking me and everyone else to just do that.
The Maoists are not holding a gun to your head. On the contrary, it is the government which is holding a gun on the head of the tribals. This is not about you or your unwillingness "to surrender". Who do you think you are? Do you think this conflict is about you personally? Once again stop talking in empty rhetoric.
Operation Green Hunt is underway because the maoists refuse to give up violence
No, it is under way because the government wants to activate dormant mining contracts.
and whatever you may think, I am not willing to morally equate lawfully elected governments with a bunch of extortionists who don't have the guts to back up their claims of mass support by fighting an election.
I have already answered on question the maoists and elections. See above.
I am not equating the Maoists and the Government. I havent even talked of Maoists. All my posts have been essentially about Tribals. About why they are supporting the Maoists. I do however equate Maoist violence and state violence.
As far as accountability goes, one of the reasons that i am critical of the government is because i elected it, it should be accountable to the questions people like me put to it.