Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Maoists

Another attack and this time in full brutality. I decided to research into this problem to find out what the dispute is all about. So first of all what are maoists?
now maoism is actually a cross between marxism and early chinese teachings by of the late chinese leader mao zedong. I dont care about the teachings but heres how it started in india. Two people were chiefly responsible, Charu majumdar and Kanyu Sangal, both extremists of communist parties within india and used a local landdispute to attack landlords and escalate violence in the area in a bid to dethrone the CPI(M) government. Majumdar was instrumental in setting up maoist ideaology when he published an eight page inscription outlining maoist teachings.
Now the base of this movement as far as I have read was setup in the then city of calcutta( now kolkatta) as they got plenty of support from the student community there. A popular idea at the time was that communism would support the downtrodden and the upper class were to blame for everyones misfortunes. This funda would hold and fueled anger in the downtrodden which was the worst in calcutta.
But if this was not enough, a man named Satyanarayan Singh began to question Majumdar and when majumdar was arrested ( and later died in prison) he took over the rebel movement. The movement became a proper rebel movement only under him and have been responsible for several deaths within the country causing our prime minister to state that Maoists are terrorists. Certainly their activities do not vindicate them, as they are quoting from newspapers responsible for the deaths in the following denomination.
  • 1996: 156 deaths
  • 1997: 428 deaths
  • 1998: 270 deaths
  • 1999: 363 deaths
  • 2000: 50 deaths
  • 2001: 100+ deaths
  • 2002: 140 deaths
  • 2003: 451 deaths
  • 2004: 500+ deaths
  • 2005: 700+ deaths
  • 2006: 750 deaths
  • 2007: 650 deaths
  • 2008: 794 deaths
  • 2009: 1,134 deaths
The communist propaganda in India however has also legally entered with parties forming and entering elections.
Now the dispute is simple,
They want a communist government.... we arent giving it to them ... Its a deadlock that cant be resolved. So why are we giving in to talks... these numbers are enough to show that this group has killed more indians than lashkar!
Most of the time we arent concerned with these idealogies as they are not anywhere around us. But we live in one country.
I have run out of time. I will continue this thread when i get the time. but do think..

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