Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The surrender industry

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In Assam and the North-east, insurgents who abandon the cause end up making a killing, report Pranab Bora and Monalisa Gogoi

There was a time when a Chief Minister of Assam is said to have been taken apart by the Opposition in the state Assembly after a member pointed out that the number of insurgents of a certain outfit that his government claimed had surrendered actually far exceeded the number of men that, by the government’s own estimates, the outfit had in the first place! That was in the early nineties, when insurgency in Assam had peaked only to come up against the political guile of a one-man army called Hiteswar Saikia.

Saikia, an old professor turned politician, then did the unthinkable—he split the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in half, creating what has since then been known as the SULFA, or surrendered ULFA. Some 20 years down the line, Assam continues to be in the throes of the same insurgency—and many more—its many wounds now festering and by all accounts incurable, and the illegal migrants’ problem, the one that led to the Assam agitation and then the insurgency still unshakably in place.

And in these 20 years, Assam, a state that has zilch for industries, now has a parallel economy, one that has turned the city’s Guwahati-Shillong Road into a many-kilometre long shopping arcade worth hundreds of crores, turned surrendered militants into overnight millionaires, and very bluntly told the people of Assam that crime pays, and it pays big time. Most of all, surrenders, killings and encounter deaths are now routine and nobody is counting anymore.

“Some of our people become rich by getting into business,” says Mrinal Hazarika, a militant of the dreaded 28th battalion of the ULFA that is among the latest to have got into a ‘ceasefire’ deal with the government. “As for those getting rich overnight, you’ll have to ask them. But I must say that the money that the government gives us is enough only for us to just live, so our boys get into contracts, etc. As for our struggle, we are pro-talks but still demand full autonomy.”


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