Coming out of Turmoil
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: November 02 2015 -
It has often been argued that the Government of India’s take on issues pertaining to the rise of insurgency in the Northeast has been predominantly overshadowed by the necessities of “holding” the territorial unity of the country.
While certain views over this understanding may not be used to justify the rise of militarization in the region, New Delhi political heavyweights seemed to be reluctant on addressing the core rationale of armed movements in the region.
By implicating former ruling regimes in New Delhi for the rise of what had been often termed as low-intensity conflict, the Government of India now has given sort of infamous credit to some national political parties rather than projecting the ability to deal with the protracted armed conflict using out of the box workable ideas.
Keen observers have over the period of time noted that political or ethnic assertions in the Northeast region preceded even the idea of “misgovernance, mistreatment and neglect” as understood in the last few decades of the last millennium.
Some analysts suggested that the rejection of “self-rule” demands is the root cause of armed movements in the region as series of armed confrontations took place after the 195Os.
How the story unfolded over the years and the dynamics driven to another level is a different story now.
This has been primarily stirred by the perception that most causes of armed conflicts elsewhere in the region have been reactions to misgovernance, mistreatment or even neglect.
What the self ordained statist political observers have failed to note is the subtle shift from a sense of independence to political undercurrents and assertions.
As the armed conflicts spread, State governments led by parties irrespective of ideologies began misgoverning or even neglecting the issues on hand.
By the 1990s, almost all the issues got entangled and that is how the turmoil has been set into motion.
For a long time, New Delhi failed to show its willingness to grapple the problem head one through mutually respectable principles which perhaps could have been the only way out the turmoil.
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