The Indian government has a habit of blaming the neighbors for every problem. Yes, the neighbors are not good neighbors however; many of the issues are internal as well. The issue with Maoists/Naxalites is an internal problem. You need to remember that this is a mass movement. A mass movement has an objective that addresses the concern of the masses not just few people. Even if you remove the above people, the movement would continue. Even if it is assumed that the leaders are not tribal’s, the movement, as a whole, is addressing the concerns of the tribal population.
The fact that Sonia Gandhi Ji , who is heading the congress party and not an Indian by birth, does not mean that the Congress party is not working for the welfare of the Indian people. In fact she seems to be more concerned than some of the India origin politicians.
Arvind, sorry for being blunt, but you are just showing your ignorance repeatedly. Or if I have to be more uncharitable, then you may be one of the "misguided brother" who wants to overthrow the Indian state and is just obfuscating the issues here. I am giving you facts and you are giving me "your" opinions.
1. So you "think" that it is a mass movement and so you go on to define mass movement and its objectives. What mass movement? Who are the people fighting the Maoists in State and non-State forces like Salwa Judum? Are they not from the masses? You are not the one who gets to define the objectives of the Maoists The leadership of Maoists has described it in full detail. And then you are basically throwing conjectures around by saying the movement would continue without these leaders. Mass movements don't hide in jungles, burn trains, indulge in looting. There was a mass movement during Emergency under JP and it truly involved the masses. There have been local mass movements for Uttarakhand, Telangana, etc. Appreciate the difference.
2. What's there to assume in who the leadership is. Who the leaders are is not an unknown. And what concerns of tribals is the movement addressing? Is it tribals' concern to overthrow the State through a protracted war? Let's say I ASSUME that is the tribals' concern- then as an INDIAN, I consider these people to be terrorists and anti-national and it is State's duty to suppress them.
The statements that you have mentioned may be the ambitions of few. However, they are definitely not the aim of the mass movement.
3. This was the killer one. It just shows how you want to overlook solid evidence and believe in your fantasies. What I gave to you was from the
CONSTITUTION OF THE MAOISTS, as drafted and followed by them. The guy whose statement I gave here is the
official spokesperson for the Maoists. And you just dismiss that as ambition of the "few". Hitler and his "few" cronies decided what actions Germany took. Ditto with Mao and his "few".
History teaches us to be wary of the ambitions and actions of the "few" who LEAD, not the fantasies of hundreds who FOLLOW.
What is stopping the government in distributing medicines in the forests? I am sure, the Maoists/tribal would welcome it. Instead, what the government is doing is using schools as military base. It has forced hundreds of villages to be abandoned and forced people to live in camps. The whole objective seems to be to move the people from the forest so that capitalists could open more mines and destroy the forest.
Ask the government to use helicopters to spray food packets, instead of bullets, in the situations of floods etc. and see the result.
I believe, the Maoists were forced to take the path of violence. That was the only path left for them. - Read my earlier posts.
Yes it is simplistic to say then actually address. However, corruption and governance failure is the root cause of the Maoists movement.
4. Again, you are sure that Maoists would welcome humanitarian help. No one would like to risk their life on your conviction, especially given Maoists' track record. You can't distribute medicines when you don't know that the next step you take may blow you up in a landmine. I will agree that governance has to improve. But it just can't improve while Maoists are there.
5. Again your believes on why Maoists are violent are independent of the facts. The Maoist ideology predates any tribal revolt. The "revolutionaries" who swayed or coerced tribals into taking up arms ALWAYS had that agenda. It is there in their constitution. "Protracted people's War", "People's Liberation Army", "Violent armed struggle to overthrow the proletriat" is all part of a planned strategy inspired from Mao's own "revolution" in China. It is not a question of opinion, it is well documented. Maoists proclaim this proudly. They grew up on these ideas. The tribals areas just provided them with the opportunity to practise their ideology.
