Fight against Terrorism is the most fraudulent word in today’s world, so is fight against tribal based Maoism in India. Let them live alone and they will be alright. I mean tribals have always been fighters, they don’t want to live up to modern day consumerism; they would destroy themselves and the other, for the sake of their identity that is core to their heart.
Specifically, for the tribes in India, they have been living in forests and they were unto themselves till we did not go to them to “develop” them. But whenever we went to them, we did not intend to “develop” them, rather we wanted to remove them from the place where they had been.
More often than not, we treated them like snakes, which were around the treasure and we wanted to grab the treasure in any possible way. When we talk about military actions, we give them a message like what Saddam Hussain had done to Kurds or what Americans had done to the native people on the land to establish the new country, the “first modern democracy” in the world.
Just remember, when we were not “developing” them, they were not Maoists, when we wanted to “develop” them they turned violent and followed left wing extremists. It is not that Maoists for the first time have trained them to fight, they had been fighting by bows and arrows, by rolling the rocks for ages, now Maoists have equipped them with guns and they use to attack whoever goes to invade their privacy in jungles.
They consider us outside invaders and that is the reason they are against us so fiercely at the call of the Maoist party. As far as communist revolution is concerned, tribals would be the last persons to understand communism, not because they don’t have mind, but because they had already practicing primitive communism inside the jungles since our civilisations reached them.
Maoists are successfully persuading them to follow the party because we are showing them ills of capitalism, of modern day bureaucracy and the same of police formations. We have no better things to show to them than what they already had. But conversely, we considered them fools, ignorant, and weak thereafter. We were arrogant when they allowed us to enter the forests and they considered us wild when they interacted with us.
They became easy prey to Maoists, because the tribes can most scientifically cognise the life of communist society than we in plains. Their lives had been based on equality with a societal discipline, we in plains have been trained to live in social and economical inequality. We the people in plains had been cruel and barbarians to the tribes as well as amongst us for all purposes and they had always been scared of our gun power, our knowledge of English or non tribal languages.
They had faced our institutions and complicated property rights rules that never functions unless the officials sitting behind the chairs are greased well with money.
They were scared of coming to towns and face us do good for them. They suspected us, our officialdom failed them as citizens and pushed them to the walls.
Our gun power does not scare them, they get more rebellious to see us attacking their life style. They attack us, as American President George Bush attacked Afghanistan calling them as attackers on American way of life. The tribal way of life is equally important and glorious than machine driven out city lives. Our development, our riches scare them and they don’t want to be part of us so easily unless they themselves get corrupted.
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