Nandigram DEMOCIDE

I am neither a scribe nor a political/social activist...just an ordinary Indian citizen, who uses only few of 3000 average words in the Dictionary to express senses and feelings and definitely is ignorant and oblivious about rest of the 189000 words. My senses are in a jumbled state at the moment as I am searching for proper words and framework to express my present feelings.

Today morning , I woke up somewhere in a plush Hotel room at Mumbai. I had to catch a flight and was rushing through my Breakfast and the morning edition of TOI. As usual, neglecting the front page news , was going through the Headlines of Sports and Business Pages. This has been my routine interaction with Printed Media for last few years with some irregular glances at Comics section. It was when I completed gobbling up my Breakfast and was about to leave , I noticed it.....yaah, for a change I honored the front page of TOI and looked at and kept looking at......."Nandigram Erupts Again".

In the flight, I kept reading all the News available regarding Nandigram incident and the News kept sinking slowly . By 10 PM, I was frustrated and was unable to figure out the exact reason.Now, it is time to stop my daily activity Journal and start the business I want to make.......in the following I will try to sum up the Tits and Bits of Bytes available on this World Web........
As TOI and other Media reports have been coming up, 12-14 casualties have been recorded officially/unofficially as of now. But what concerned me the most is the Operation Methodology followed by CPI(M) in Past. Therefore though unsure about the presence of resources, I tried to scavenge.I know, the following facts will never see the daylight and might not reflect the true story 100%. But to tell the facts....it was a cold blooded "RED Shed".About 125-130 men, women and children are said to be killed by the police and the cadres of the ruling Communist Party of India (CPM). Many dead bodies were seen to be thrown by police into the nearby river. The dead bodies of children were thrown onto the trenches dug by the villagers to stop any encroachment, and they were filled with soil to make roads. According to the people the cadres and police have devastated the Sonachura village; they killed the people, drove them out, looted the houses and raped scores of women.In fact all the villages were ransacked, devastated by the cadres and police. They have blocked entry to journalists and other organizations and one journalist was kidnapped and intimidated to keep quiet. Armed CPI(M) cadres , mixed with the police, fired upon villagers and then attempted to enter the villages. Another group of party activists cordoned off the entire area and checked all vehicles to prevent journalists from entering the scene of violence. Several scribes were beaten up.
On March 14, over a 2000-strong police force armed with AK 47 rifles attempted to enter Nandigram, which has been cut off from the rest of the state for over two months now by villagers resisting land acquisition for setting up an SEZ. The first barricade was put up by women and children who resisted the police from entering the villages. The police fired tear gasshells and then rubber bullets and finally live cartridges.
The sudden raid came as a surprise for the villagers as they started running here and there to maintain a safe distance. It was a horrific sight as armed policemen were seen dragging villagers out of their houses and beating them.According to the reported strategy, the police was asked to remove resistance, enter the villages and ‘restore law of the land’. They were to be followed by CPI(M) activists, who would “reinstall civil society” in Nandigram.



This may not be the right time to discuss History and Politics. But today I recollected something and definitely reflects my current state of mind. Being in very much politically active environment for Four Years of my Life, I had the opportunity to come across some brilliant minds. I wished to meet some other brilliant minds, who were Termed as 'NAXALITES/REBELS' and they got inhumane treatment from the Government of Poor People in West Bengal.But my wish never materialized.I used to have lot of queries in those days and during one such non-sense debate with some guys, we zeroed in on DEMOCIDE.It means for governments murdering an individual under municipal law. It is the premeditated killing of a person in cold blood, or causing the death of a person through reckless and wanton disregard for their life. During our discussion, the main debate was about why COMMUNIST Governments around the world commit the Mass-Killlings and they are supposed to be the Symbol of Enlightment for the MASS !!!!! I did not have the figures to support me on that day, but I have now and are given at the top of this post.

In sum the communist probably have murdered something like 110,000,000, or near two-thirds of all those killed by all governments, quasi-governments, and guerrillas from 1900 to 1987. Of course, the world total itself it shocking. It is several times the 38,000,000 battle-dead that have been killed in all this century's international and domestic wars. Yet the probable number of murders by the Soviet Union alone--one communist country-- well surpasses this cost of war. And those murders of communist China almost equal it.

Now, the basic question is how these Mass-Killings by Communists can be understood?I will Quote R.J. Rummel here---'It is the marriage of an absolutist ideology with the absolute power. Communists believed that they knew the truth, absolutely. They believed that they knew through Marxism what would bring about the greatest human welfare and happiness. And they believed that power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, must be used to tear down the old feudal or capitalist order and rebuild society and culture to realize this utopia. Nothing must stand in the way of its achievement. Government--the Communist Party--is thus above any law. All institutions, cultural norms, traditions, and sentiments were expendable. And the people were as though lumber and bricks, to be used in building the new world.
Constructing this utopia was seen as though a war on poverty, exploitation, imperialism, and inequality. And for the greater good, as in a real war, people are killed. And thus this war for the communist utopia had its necessary enemy casualties, the clergy, bourgeoisie, capitalists, wreckers, counterrevolutionaries, rightists, tyrants, rich, landlords, and noncombatants that unfortunately got caught in the battle. In a war millions may die, but the cause may be well justified, as in the defeat of Hitler and an utterly racist Nazism. And to many communists, the cause of a communist utopia was such as to justify all the deaths. '

I do not fully agree with the above, but cannot contradict also. After all ,CPI(M) 'Restored the Law of the Land' and 'Reinstalled the Civil Society' at Nandigram !!!

So, more graphic news,snaps,criticism and analysis by intellectuals(I am Not and want to die being not like them) will come up in near future. some committe will be formed, CPI(M) will lose ground a little bit in the country and the Right will try to invoke this issue in West Bengal and Kerala to gain political mileage. But , who will set the things straight and right?? Definitely not me, who reads the 'SHOCKING' News at Breakfast Table and writes a Byte in the wee hours of the Night to display MORAL Duties.Definitely not you, who might be wasting your time and thinking ...."What a hypocrite, this person is?"But the QUESTION remains unanswered...."WHO ARE GOING TO SET THESE THINGS RIGHT AND HOW"? We will never know , how many people died, how many women were raped and how many children will never grow up. I think it must be all of 'US'. But I don't know 'HOW'.SO, I HAVE DECIDED TO PUT MY NONSENSE WORDS HERE AND WILL TRY TO KEEP SOME BASIC THINGS STRAIGHT AND SIMPLE.

I request to all of you to tell me 'HOW' it will be .

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