Madness sheer madness

Mobs defied shoot-at-sight orders in riot-scarred Kandhamal district and set on fire a village dominated by Christians after forcing its residents to leave.

At least one more church was burnt down today at Daringibadi in the southern Orissa district as people went on the rampage, thumbing their noses at the curfew as well as the hordes of policemen patrolling the streets.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who had assured Union minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal yesterday that normality would be restored within three days, admitted in the Assembly today that the situation in Kandhamal was not “fully under control”.

Jaiswal, the internal security minister, is learnt to have said the situation was “out of control”. He had been requested not to visit the district yesterday as it was curfew-bound.

Security forces echoed Jaiswal and said matters had gone out of the hands of the local administration. A source in the Rapid Action Force said the unrest had spread deep. Not only were the state police not acting, the source said, a senior bureaucrat on deputation in Kandhamal hid in the house of a CRPF company commander yesterday fearing the mobs.

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Shame on the Orissa government and the Central government for letting yet another pogrom happen. Looks like no one learnt any lessons from Gujarat, or maybe they did learn the 'right' lessons going by just how many people have been held accountable for the Gujarat mass murders and displacement. Not a lot of people manage to come back to the places they were chased out and this is another terrible aspect of these riots that tends to be forgotten after things get under control.

How many more stories will we see of rioting mobs and the local police watching things unfold? The apologists for this violence will come up with yet another bald faced lie claiming it was all spontaneous. Pogroms are not spontaneous and shame on the liars who enable this madness with this 'spontaneous' crap.   Prayers to those affected and those inflicting the damage for some healing to take place soon. All the talk of Indian progress sounds so $%%^% hollow now.  What a crying shame!

Comments

[Naveen]

Have posted about it too. I am damn disappointed that not one prominent blogger has written about it!. Damn the indian blogosphere.

[Samuel Selvan]

I don't know if you would call Dilip D Souza prominent. He does have something on it.
http://dcubed.blogspot.com/2008/09/anyone-anywhere.html

[Selvan]

Its a repeat performance by the monkeys. More than the masters the monkeys tend to be very much concerned about maintaining the status quo. In the ramayana the monkeys fight Ram's war.The only way monkeys can hope to get assimilated/ gain acceptance is by fighting the masters' wars against the challengers. In Gujarat too the scheduled castes and the tribals joined the others in attacking the muslims. Perhaps it may give them some hope of being assimilated in the caste hierarchy or some material gains from the looting and plunder that follow any riot. About the 1969 Ahmedabad riots it was said that after the muslim workers left their jobs and went elsewhere the properties left behind and the jobs were to be taken over by the people belonging to the caste / community of the rioters. The same thing was said about the Jamshedpur riots. In both the cases the Parsi employers seem to have preferred the muslims to the others. The monkeys can never fight for their rights or self respect. They hope to get salvation by fighting for their masters.
Another interesting aspect of this madness is the eagerness displayed by the subaltern classes to identify themselves with the masters.Here also they are only aping their masters. An English man while writing about the Moghul Mansabdari system has written that the so called martial races were very proud to occuppy the 14th and 15th places in the system.They were part of the empire whereas without that they were known only for their acts of loot, rape and plunder among their own country men. Compare this with what has been written about the crusaders. There is absolutely no difference between madness of one kind and another.If at all there is any difference its only in the labels.