Fresh Updates – Op-ed in the Telegraph?echoing Offstumped on Buddha’s Taliban act.
We must fight to protect our innocent people against looting and killing
They had rendered great sacrifices in the past
They are ready to render more sacrifices for the protection of their land and their ideology
That was the Taliban in 2001 justifying its actions in the feudal wars of Afghanistan. You?could very well have mistaken those words for Buddhadeb’s for the Comrade Chief Minister of West Bengal did a Mullah Omer today with these words
Do you think they were peaceful people?
They had for months attacked, harassed and evicted our people
the people who suffered were paid back in their own coin
The Taliban had demonstrated their Culture in Bamiyan, and now this former Culture Minister of West Bengal has shown us the “eye for an eye” culture that he stands for.
But then why should we be surprised of this Taliban act in Bengal with the active connivance of the West Bengal police, after all Buddhadeb in his former avatar was not just the Culture Minister but was also overseeing the Home Ministry.
So what we have here in West Bengal is actually?self proclaimed culture aficionado with the intellect of a Taliban Warlord who would rather have his private armed militia (the Hormud Vahini) settle scores than have his police uphold the rule of law.
But the Taliban like Culture does not end there. It extends to deceit and subterfuge by the CPI-Mafioso. But then you have the top law enforcement official of Bengal, the Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy going on record to state there is no evidence of Maoist activity in Nandigram. This effectively nails the lie that was first perpetuated by Jyoti Basu, Biman Bose and later broadcast to the national media by Don Prakash Karat.
What is puzzling is what lead National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan to lend credibility to this subterfuge while he was in Moscow with no direct access to the facts on the ground. The NSA must withdraw his remarks and apologize to the nation or tender his resignation forthwith.
The NSA is but a small player in the sequence of events in Nandigram. The bigger culprits are Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi who have now cut a convenient deal with the CPI-M to look the other way while they tacitly support talks with the IAEA on the Indo-US Nuclear deal. The most eloquent comment on this comes from BJP Leader and Leader of the Opposition LK Advani saying the CPI-M had nuked the farmers of Nandigram. Mr. Advani has since?demanded President’s rule after lauding the Governor.
While this post modern day Nero may get away with his complicity much thanks to Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, Offstumped would like to make it absolutely clear that this is not the end of this issue.
Buddhadeb may for now buy peace with bullet and bullion in Nandigram but one day he and his Comrades will be held to account for their Taliban Act in Nandigram.
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[...] Buddhadeb?s justification of Nandigram – A Taliban Act We must fight to protect our innocent people against looting and killing They had rendered great sacrifices in the past They are ready to render more sacrifices for the protection of their land and their ideology That was the Taliban in 2001 justifying its actions in the feudal wars of Afghanistan. You could very well have mistaken those words for Buddhadeb?s for the Comrade Chief Minister of West Bengal did a Mullah Omer today with these words Do you think they were peaceful people? They had for months attacked, harassed and evicted our people the people who suffered were paid back in their own coin The Taliban had demonstrated their Culture in Bamiyan, and now this former Culture Minister of West Bengal has shown us the ?eye for an eye? culture that he stands for. But then why should we be surprised of this Taliban act in Bengal with the active connivance of the West Bengal police, after all Buddhadeb in his former avatar was not just the Culture Minister but was also overseeing the Home Ministry. So what we have here in West Bengal is actually self proclaimed culture aficionado with the intellect of a Taliban Warlord who would rather have his private armed militia (the Hormud Vahini) settle scores than have his police uphold the rule of law. But the Taliban like Culture does not end there. It extends to deceit and subterfuge by the CPI-Mafioso. But then you have the top law enforcement official of Bengal, the Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy going on record to state there is no evidence of Maoist activity in Nandigram. This effectively nails the lie that was first perpetuated by Jyoti Basu, Biman Bose and later broadcast to the national media by Don Prakash Karat. What is puzzling is what lead National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan to lend credibility to this subterfuge while he was in Moscow with no direct access to the facts on the ground. The NSA must withdraw his remarks and apologize to the nation or tender his resignation forthwith. The NSA is but a small player in the sequence of events in Nandigram. The bigger culprits are Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi who have now cut a convenient deal with the CPI-M to look the other way while they tacitly support talks with the IAEA on the Indo-US Nuclear deal. The most eloquent comment on this comes from BJP Leader and Leader of the Opposition LK Advani saying the CPI-M had nuked the farmers of Nandigram. Mr. Advani has since demanded President?s rule after lauding the Governor. While this post modern day Nero may get away with his complicity much thanks to Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, Offstumped would like to make it absolutely clear that this is not the end of this issue. Buddhadeb may for now buy peace with bullet and bullion in Nandigram but one day he and his Comrades will be held to account for their Taliban Act in Nandigram. ? Buddhadeb?s Taliban Act | Offstumped [...]
I wonder whether the guy who wrote “Budhadeb’s Taliban act”is out of his mind. On what basis does he compare Budhadeb with Taliban? I think we have in Narendramodi, the only Taliban-like ruler in India. He represents the most fundamentalist and obscurantist ideology of all time. True ‘barbarian’! I understand why people like you shed crocodile tears for the people in Nandigram now. I congratulate the CPM men who recaptured this village from Maoists and trinamool goons and restored normalcy there.
Sujith – “recapture” ? So did the Peoples Republic of Bengal wage war on the Peoples Republic of Nandigram
for someone who fails to see reason in the face of damning facts you seem to be a fit case for a Taliban Apologist
If there are maoist inside nandigram, Bhuddev had sent cpm gundas,why he had not sent police to fight with maoist.IS CPM GUNDAS are better trained to fight with maoist than police than it is matter of investigation.
1.who train these gundas.
2.why they are train.
3.If sanjay datta jailed due to only for keeping arms,How cpm gundas can keep arms and ammunation.Is law diffrent for these goondas.
4.How budhev CM,can authorised these CPM gondas to arm and ammunition and kill innocet citizen.
“I congratulate the CPM men who recaptured this village from Maoists and trinamool goons and restored normalcy there.”
I think that the CPM was looking for WMD in Nandigram (Weapons of Maoist Destruction). Soon they will now impose democracy on the people of Nandigram.
“He represents the most fundamentalist and obscurantist ideology of all time”
Looky Looky
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Hardcover)
Communism did kill, Courtois and his fellow historians demonstrate, with ruthless efficiency: 25 million in Russia during the Bolshevik and Stalinist eras, perhaps 65 million in China under the eyes of Mao Zedong, 2 million in Cambodia, millions more Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America–an astonishingly high toll of victims. This freely expressed penchant for homicide, Courtois maintains, was no accident, but an integral trait of a philosophy, and a practical politics, that promised to erase class distinctions by erasing classes and the living humans that populated them. Courtois and his contributors document Communism’s crimes in numbing detail, moving from country to country, revolution to revolution. The figures they offer will likely provoke argument, if not among cliometricians then among the ideologically inclined. So, too, will Courtois’s suggestion that those who hold Lenin, Trotsky, and Ho Chi Minh in anything other than contempt are dupes, witting or not, of a murderous school of thought–one that, while in retreat around the world, still has many adherents. A thought-provoking work of history and social criticism, The Black Book of Communism fully merits the broadest possible readership and discussion.
Essentially a body count of communism’s victims in the 20th century, the book draws heavily from recently opened Soviet archives. The verdict: communism was responsible for between 85 million and 100 million deaths in the century. In France, both sales and controversy were fueled, as Martin Malia notes in the foreword, by editor Courtois’s specific comparison of communism’s “class genocide” with Nazism’s “race genocide.” Courtois, the director of research at the prestigious Centre Research National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and editor of the journal Communisme, along with the other distinguished French and European contributors, delivers a fact-based, mostly Russia-centered wallop that will be hard to refute: town burnings, mass deportations, property seizures, family separations, mass murders, planned faminesAall chillingly documented from conception to implementation. The book is divided into five sections.
you’re very right about Buddhadev and company,selfappointed snooty guardians of the population. Animal Farm is still relevant today. But there is still uproar about this than Narendra Modi – after all commies are hiding behind Italian Sonia’s Indian Sarees or maybe inside Rahul’s turban
http://cribbymumblings.blogspot.com/2007/12/nandigram-fiasco-and-buddhadeb.html
[...] The reality for these mostly poor and largely Muslim Victims of the CPI-Mafioso’s tyranny of Nandigram was that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi let them down when they needed them the most by looking the other away at Buddhadeb’s Taliban Act. [...]