PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2011 ID-51754
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I 1104/1 0 Five days have elapsed since the gnH.:some massacre of RO CRPF personnel in Dantcwada. 'I his country has struggled in this time to come to terms with the significa nce of what has happened. Just a day before the incident, the Home Minister P. Chidambaram had again requested the Maoists to setllc whatever differences they had with the state through talks. And the reply was loud and clear. The Mnotsts do not want peace and they do not beltevc in democracy. They wish to wage a war against the state and its people and they wish to do it in the guise of being saviours of the masses In their recent .
tatements, they have expre rd sympathy to the familie. of the jawans killed and even offered compensation. 1\lorcover, they have also apolo~i7cd for· hiO\\ ing up, chool· a nd ho pi tal~in the past. How touching!!! There is no question that there has been chronic underdevelopment and exclusion. The solutton to that is to strengthen democratic forces, mculcate transpnrency into the system. strengthen grassroot dcmocractic insltlulJons and bring people into the mainstream. But for that you need to believe in democracy. that wnh "hatever fault~ and failings electoral democracy rna) have, the freedom oft hought and expression it guarantees is needed for human development. You could argue that it is these very freedoms thtate. You can argue that elections are a sham, that democracy is subverted and mnde a mockery of. Elections may not be a sufficient condition for democracy but they arc a nccc sary condition for democracy. In this context, it is even more paradoxtcnl that the Maoic;ts do everything in their power to ensure tribals and villagers don' t vote. ll1c only explanation which comes to mind is that for their bloody revolution, they need the state ofaffnit s 10 eominuc. lfthe government or other ctvic bodies is successfu l in effecting change at the gra::>sroots, then their collective fantasy of a vioknt revolution wtll not come to fruition. .
Illis campus has struggled to come to terms wnh whtH hns hnppcned. We h~l\ c hccn forccu to quesuon ourselves with .
rcgardmg lO where our loyalti~s Itc. The ltncs ha\'C been ura\\11 rhc qu~:stton ts clear Wh1ch side of thts div tde Jre you on? .
Do you wish to stand with an ideology that has been dtscrcdllcd arounu the ""orld ttme and ttmc ugJin, '"ith ..tn idt:ology that .
has massacred more people than any other. with an tdcology that prom1ses tts people utop1a and on the.; back of those .
expectations comes to pO\\er and then proceeds to commit genoc1de on the very same progt.·mwrs of the.; rc\ ,>lution. .
Or do you \\ ish to stand With ekcwral democracy. 1 ht~ COlllltry ha-s ..;,ccn a lot or hlood ~hed tlf studcnts. fanners .md the .
common man to come mto extstencc (1-reedom StnJgglc \\ l. wtll not g 1\ ~ up thts tight that e~J-.tly. \Ve cn1uwt tnutc pcopl~ .
to violence ctther of the ··re\ olutionary" hue or the communal hue \\ e arc armed only "11h the cOil\ ictton that thts state .
"hich you proclaim to hate, this state whtch you claim you will O\ ~nhru'"· thts sta te \\ tth all Its Lwhs. all tts failtngs and .
inner tum10il has been home to people of di\C.!rse castes., creeds, comrnunllies. rhts is ampl) rcOccted e,·en 111 the:: list of .
fJtaltties of Nax.d '-iolence. .
In th~ midst of this resolve, we wtsh to state very clearly, our war is aga1nst the Naxalites, not the tnbals The nght to free .
speech is not a right \.\ ithout boundaries. One must be scnsi 11 ve to the s~ntlnH.:nts l>f n people ''ho have seen bra\ e men die .
fighting for thctr security. The dai111 thnt is hctng made 1s that <.lissent w,1~ being suppn:ssed on tlus campus. Interestingly .
your dtssent would not b~; tolcruted in those <.:ountries which wcr~ found~o·d on )OUt sy$tl!m t'r thottght: China. Cuba. tht: .
erstwhile Soviet Union or in any of thos~.: n..:publics whtch later reJected your dictatorship~. .
Let us remember that the bmve snld1crs who d1e fighting ror us an.: people...· too. they ha\'e bmiltcs and asptraoons. We urge .
the student community to stnnd united with us in our resol v~.: to rae~.: th1 s threat b~Hh 1.m and outsid~ thrs cnmpus. ln thought .
and deed let us move forward to make our natron strong <rnd bountiful fpr all tts people. .
Please join today's protest march at 9:30 PM at GAN<;A DHABA called by Students Against Naxalism .
Sd/-unil Jhajharia. President, NSUI-JNU ~d'-Kamlcsh Pooniit. Stntc Rcprcs~nWtt\t.', NSU I-.INU .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2011 ID-51754
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I 1104/1 0 Five days have elapsed since the gnH.:some massacre of RO CRPF personnel in Dantcwada. 'I his country has struggled in this time to come to terms with the significa nce of what has happened. Just a day before the incident, the Home Minister P. Chidambaram had again requested the Maoists to setllc whatever differences they had with the state through talks. And the reply was loud and clear. The Mnotsts do not want peace and they do not beltevc in democracy. They wish to wage a war against the state and its people and they wish to do it in the guise of being saviours of the masses In their recent .
tatements, they have expre rd sympathy to the familie. of the jawans killed and even offered compensation. 1\lorcover, they have also apolo~i7cd for· hiO\\ ing up, chool· a nd ho pi tal~in the past. How touching!!! There is no question that there has been chronic underdevelopment and exclusion. The solutton to that is to strengthen democratic forces, mculcate transpnrency into the system. strengthen grassroot dcmocractic insltlulJons and bring people into the mainstream. But for that you need to believe in democracy. that wnh "hatever fault~ and failings electoral democracy rna) have, the freedom oft hought and expression it guarantees is needed for human development. You could argue that it is these very freedoms thtate. You can argue that elections are a sham, that democracy is subverted and mnde a mockery of. Elections may not be a sufficient condition for democracy but they arc a nccc sary condition for democracy. In this context, it is even more paradoxtcnl that the Maoic;ts do everything in their power to ensure tribals and villagers don' t vote. ll1c only explanation which comes to mind is that for their bloody revolution, they need the state ofaffnit s 10 eominuc. lfthe government or other ctvic bodies is successfu l in effecting change at the gra::>sroots, then their collective fantasy of a vioknt revolution wtll not come to fruition. .
Illis campus has struggled to come to terms wnh whtH hns hnppcned. We h~l\ c hccn forccu to quesuon ourselves with .
rcgardmg lO where our loyalti~s Itc. The ltncs ha\'C been ura\\11 rhc qu~:stton ts clear Wh1ch side of thts div tde Jre you on? .
Do you wish to stand with an ideology that has been dtscrcdllcd arounu the ""orld ttme and ttmc ugJin, '"ith ..tn idt:ology that .
has massacred more people than any other. with an tdcology that prom1ses tts people utop1a and on the.; back of those .
expectations comes to pO\\er and then proceeds to commit genoc1de on the very same progt.·mwrs of the.; rc\ ,>lution. .
Or do you \\ ish to stand With ekcwral democracy. 1 ht~ COlllltry ha-s ..;,ccn a lot or hlood ~hed tlf studcnts. fanners .md the .
common man to come mto extstencc (1-reedom StnJgglc \\ l. wtll not g 1\ ~ up thts tight that e~J-.tly. \Ve cn1uwt tnutc pcopl~ .
to violence ctther of the ··re\ olutionary" hue or the communal hue \\ e arc armed only "11h the cOil\ ictton that thts state .
"hich you proclaim to hate, this state whtch you claim you will O\ ~nhru'"· thts sta te \\ tth all Its Lwhs. all tts failtngs and .
inner tum10il has been home to people of di\C.!rse castes., creeds, comrnunllies. rhts is ampl) rcOccted e,·en 111 the:: list of .
fJtaltties of Nax.d '-iolence. .
In th~ midst of this resolve, we wtsh to state very clearly, our war is aga1nst the Naxalites, not the tnbals The nght to free .
speech is not a right \.\ ithout boundaries. One must be scnsi 11 ve to the s~ntlnH.:nts l>f n people ''ho have seen bra\ e men die .
fighting for thctr security. The dai111 thnt is hctng made 1s that <.lissent w,1~ being suppn:ssed on tlus campus. Interestingly .
your dtssent would not b~; tolcruted in those <.:ountries which wcr~ found~o·d on )OUt sy$tl!m t'r thottght: China. Cuba. tht: .
erstwhile Soviet Union or in any of thos~.: n..:publics whtch later reJected your dictatorship~. .
Let us remember that the bmve snld1crs who d1e fighting ror us an.: people...· too. they ha\'e bmiltcs and asptraoons. We urge .
the student community to stnnd united with us in our resol v~.: to rae~.: th1 s threat b~Hh 1.m and outsid~ thrs cnmpus. ln thought .
and deed let us move forward to make our natron strong <rnd bountiful fpr all tts people. .
Please join today's protest march at 9:30 PM at GAN<;A DHABA called by Students Against Naxalism .
Sd/-unil Jhajharia. President, NSUI-JNU ~d'-Kamlcsh Pooniit. Stntc Rcprcs~nWtt\t.', NSU I-.INU .
.J A I li lt 0! !!! .
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