Operation Recapture
The events that recently unfurled in Nandigram, West Bengal, India, made my skin crawl.
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20071126&fname
=Nandigram+%28F%29&sid=1
A group of villages fighting against a policy that they believed would be harmful to their livelihood were brutally massacred and the women gang-raped with the assistance of the state government. The first person in the celebration lines was the chief minister of the state. His party not only controls the state of West Bengal but also holds 25% of the country's parliament. Does India still have basis to call itself a democracy?
Who is to blame? The brilliant policy-makers who allocated a multi-crop region to industrial SEZ? The opposition parties that clearly saw this as an opportunity to rally the masses for a protest against the chemical intrusion, despite obvious risks? The few and numbered who genuinely believed in the cause of opposing forceful acquisition of farming land to foreign industrialists? Or, the state government that went back on its own policies of labour cause and then used force when it needed control?
A series of bad decisions has been highlighted only by the inability of the federal government to step in. How different is this from the actions of the Modi government in allowing a massacre to take place while the BJP government did nothing to stop it?
When Gandhiji wanted to stop the Calcutta riots in 1946-47, he occupied a house in the city as a lone sane voice and braved it through the days of mayhem. 60 years from then, the same state of West Bengal has proven that where evil politicians have room to overwhelm hardworking citizens, democracy is merely one another twisted route to recapture autocracy.
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20071126&fname
=Nandigram+%28F%29&sid=1
A group of villages fighting against a policy that they believed would be harmful to their livelihood were brutally massacred and the women gang-raped with the assistance of the state government. The first person in the celebration lines was the chief minister of the state. His party not only controls the state of West Bengal but also holds 25% of the country's parliament. Does India still have basis to call itself a democracy?
Who is to blame? The brilliant policy-makers who allocated a multi-crop region to industrial SEZ? The opposition parties that clearly saw this as an opportunity to rally the masses for a protest against the chemical intrusion, despite obvious risks? The few and numbered who genuinely believed in the cause of opposing forceful acquisition of farming land to foreign industrialists? Or, the state government that went back on its own policies of labour cause and then used force when it needed control?
A series of bad decisions has been highlighted only by the inability of the federal government to step in. How different is this from the actions of the Modi government in allowing a massacre to take place while the BJP government did nothing to stop it?
When Gandhiji wanted to stop the Calcutta riots in 1946-47, he occupied a house in the city as a lone sane voice and braved it through the days of mayhem. 60 years from then, the same state of West Bengal has proven that where evil politicians have room to overwhelm hardworking citizens, democracy is merely one another twisted route to recapture autocracy.
posted by SR @ 3:45 PM
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1 Comments:
Its the people and their fault. When you vote for your caste this is what happens. I saw video's of dogs on the street feeding on dead humans. I tell you, it was not a pleasant thing to see.
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