A Big Fight

As I was surfing through channels, in search of some thing interesting to watch, I was stunned to see this title in NDTV Big Fight program, and it is “Are Naxals terrorists or bandits ? “, doesn’t it dopey? It sounded to me anyways, in either case they are anti-socials, and need to be uprooted. Anyways I was keen to know what there argument is all about and what they are trying to prove here, and so decided to watch this program.

The team which says that Naxals are terrorists wants a military action against them for a bloody massacre, where as the other, who says they are bandits wants them to be arrested and punished as per law, which is hang till death. So in a nut shell one says directly, to kill them and the other says indirectly, to kill them. I’m getting really frustrated, as the people discussing on this insane topic are not novices they are scholars from politics, journalism and couple of human activists and a bunch of spectators, and they are going on blabbering on this, all discussing on this insanity.

At one moment one of the spectator, raised this concern “Has anybody visited the Naxals affected area? Which lacks basic amenities, which is still in the dark ages, which is still under the clutches of capitalists/land lords? People who are suppressed were not able to take anymore, they rebelled to form Naxals” This zipped everyone’s lip for a moment.

This concern tested my patience to the core, I switched to AXN, however the argument was lingering in my mind, I started a debate with myself, what will I do in such conditions? I will rebel, I said. Then are Naxals rebels? May be even terrorists are rebels in one way or the other What made these rebels to be known as terrorists/bandits? To answer this we need to penetrate little under the skin.

Naxalites/Naxals as commonly called, started there ideology in Naxalbari a small village in west Bengal led by Charu Majumdur and Kanu Sanyal, as a revolutionary opposition to the CPI(Marxist), Majumdur greatly admired Mao Zedong, and gathered people in Naxalbari to follow his footsteps, he also inspired the lower class people with his writings (Ref : wiki ). So basically Naxal movements are for the welfare of lower class people, but how? Mujumdar failed to answer that question, because he don’t have the answer and is superiority conscious made him not to accept the same, rather saying no to the peasants who were blindly following him, he redirected the inability and wrathness of the peasants towards the upper class people or rich people. Mujumdar preached that there living conditions are due to these rich class people, which kindled and fueled peasant’s wrath on the upper section. From there Naxals started to destroy the rich class assuming that they are constructing the lower segment, and the war started.

They forgot that constructing the lower segment means reaching the upper section if you start destroying the rich class it means you are going to destroy yourself in the future, and this will be a never ending war, a war of self destruction, it’s a kind of suicidal homicide. Naxals are no more rebels, they were when they started with there ideology they become terrorists and to support there ideology they do banditism.
Naxalism which should have been a cooperative society/movement, rather it took lot of detours and today it finally reached to terrorism, you call it as banditism its still the same, killing innocent civilians, looting their money destroying both public and private properties, cannot be encouraged and should not be tolerated. If civilian action is not enough then impose military action, its not human rights violation, people butchered by them do have rights to LIVE is that not a human rights violation? Common people who are scared of travelling in trains and buses because of these bandits, don’t they have rights to live peacefully? Naxals do have rights to LIVE, but they have to put down their weapons of destruction, there is no concession in it, as long as they question thru ammunitions there answers will also be ammunitions, its rightly said, what you sow is what you reap.