The massacre of policemen in Shilda ,West Midnapore is a great set back for the operation Green Hunt.It killed 24 policemen on the spot giving them almost no chance to fight back.Now this left no option for our goverment, but to move ahead with the operation.This is not the first time when Maoists have attacked the cops but the magnitude of this attack undoubtedly sent a very strong message to our rulers..The Maoists have been deliberately killing and targeting the cops for the last few years because the cops represent the ruling goverment to them..
The naxal movement that was born out of deprivation has become a game or a license to kill people without any justification.Now we don't expect the Maoists to be decent with the goverment and co-operate with them for operation Green Hunt.But can we atleast now expect our senior officers to be serious on this kind of sensitive and alarming issues??After the massacre in Shilda investigations have been started and what we have come to know is shocking and shameful too..
It is indeed very surprising that in day time such an attack could be launched on a police camp..But the most surprising thing is that intelligence sources had warned West Bengal Police and goverment about the attack.But they just ignored that because they thought that this kind of alert is just like weather forecasts,it never rains when it is forecasted.But this time the intelligence branch report was very specific than usual.But unfortunately a very casual approach to this alert has led to such huge causalties..
Now as usual,the blame game has stared.Oppositions and some of our intellectuals(they think they are) will take this opportunity to show their concern about the victims and the maoists too.They will condemn the act of our government for operation green hunt.Even some of the celebs are so concerned about poor,deprived people in the remote araes like Lalgarh that they choose to go there just the day before the Lalgarh operation began.They are celebs after all ( how can they miss a single chance to come on the spot light??).
Now as the aftermath of this attack the goverment will definately ask for more forces.But what is the use of sending more goats to the butcher until and unless they are not well equipped and well trained ??Goverment officials said that the attack was not expected..but when West Bengal intelligence branch had repeatedly warned them how could they have ignored that???just because they were too casual.
So are they the right person for their own posts??An efficient employer can't do this i guess..this trigers the questions that who is sitting at the top of the administration??efficient or obedient???when lack of work efficiency causes bloodshed,deaths of people then we can only hear the top official's excuses..
Digusting??ridiculous????irritating???to us only,who watch it on tv,read it in the news papers..but what about those who lost their loved ones???
Arjun thakuri,Chandra Chhetri,Mikmar Tamang who lost their lives in the attack,all of them joined force to serve for the state,for the country..their families are proud of them.But at the same time their lives came to a halt also..if their loved ones would have a hint of what was going to happen then they must have not been talking over phones with families,not have been cooking dinner or relaxing keeping their rifles away..we will discuss this issue for next couple of days and then we will forget them..but those who have lost someone will never be able to forget..any amount of compensations,sympathy cannot make their lives like before.
We request our administration to hear the cries and expect a humanlike behaviour..enough games have been played with common men's lives..now it is high time for them to talk less and work more..because actions always speak more than words and we certainly dont want to hear any excuse next time..
The shilda incident was just waiting to happen.When you build a outpost for specifically guarding over a party office without any strategic considerations -well you are sitting ducks literally..
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting incident was the follow up to this - a news conference by the EFR boss.While he certainly did not cut a dashing figure what with his covered face in a black cloth the reaction of the bureaucracy and a section of the media has been amusing.
While the armchair-Romels deplore and condemn the act of covering the face i have just a innocuous little question a, general wonderment if you will..How many of them would risk going to the area and spending a night there much less face the fire .