‘Kidnapping OK in war-like situation’
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Vishwa Mohan |TNN | Apr 26, 2012, 03.16AM IST
NEW DELHI: With the Chhattisgarh government getting ready to formally begin its negotiation from Thursday to get abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon released, B D Sharma - one of the Maoist handpicked negotiators - on Wednesday said that he did not condemn the abduction which, he claimed, had happened in a "war-like" situation.
Setting the tone for the grueling task ahead, Sharma, a retired IAS officer and former commissioner of the National Commission for SC/ST, said it was important to note that the Maoists were not begging for some favours.
On Thursday, Sharma will be flown to Raipur, where he will first contact the other Maoist-nominated interlocutor, G Hargopal, before meeting the two Chhattisgarh government-nominated mediators - former chief secretaries of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Nirmala Buch and S K Mishra.
The stand taken by Sharma, while addressing a press conference here a day before the negotiation begins, was in sync with what the Maoists' professed justification of their violence. It was an indication that the retired IAS officer, who had also served as collector in Bastar, might be sending a 'right' signal to the ultras.
Though Sharma tried to evade questions on killing of innocents by Maoists, he said all such things happened in a "war-like" situation that must be corrected taking in view the 'violence' committed by the other side (security forces) against tribals.
He said the collector's abduction had already become an issue of "deep concern from countless perception".
Though he refused to condemn the abduction of Menon, he held that the abduction of two Italians in Odisha was not right. "I did condemn the abduction of foreigners. After all, foreigners are not harming tribals and villagers who are actually a victim of existing system (government)," he said.
Stating that the Maoists were not begging for favours, he said, "They (the Maoists) were of the opinion that hundreds of fake cases had been forced on innocent tribals who are unaware of them. They are being held in jails of Dantewada and Raipur without knowing what it was all about. They also have demanded that cases registered against an elderly journalist and Binayak Sen should be withdrawn."....................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTIvMDQvMjYjQXIwMTUwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom
http://t.co/8657YL6i
Vishwa Mohan |TNN | Apr 26, 2012, 03.16AM IST
NEW DELHI: With the Chhattisgarh government getting ready to formally begin its negotiation from Thursday to get abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon released, B D Sharma - one of the Maoist handpicked negotiators - on Wednesday said that he did not condemn the abduction which, he claimed, had happened in a "war-like" situation.
Setting the tone for the grueling task ahead, Sharma, a retired IAS officer and former commissioner of the National Commission for SC/ST, said it was important to note that the Maoists were not begging for some favours.
On Thursday, Sharma will be flown to Raipur, where he will first contact the other Maoist-nominated interlocutor, G Hargopal, before meeting the two Chhattisgarh government-nominated mediators - former chief secretaries of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Nirmala Buch and S K Mishra.
The stand taken by Sharma, while addressing a press conference here a day before the negotiation begins, was in sync with what the Maoists' professed justification of their violence. It was an indication that the retired IAS officer, who had also served as collector in Bastar, might be sending a 'right' signal to the ultras.
Though Sharma tried to evade questions on killing of innocents by Maoists, he said all such things happened in a "war-like" situation that must be corrected taking in view the 'violence' committed by the other side (security forces) against tribals.
He said the collector's abduction had already become an issue of "deep concern from countless perception".
Though he refused to condemn the abduction of Menon, he held that the abduction of two Italians in Odisha was not right. "I did condemn the abduction of foreigners. After all, foreigners are not harming tribals and villagers who are actually a victim of existing system (government)," he said.
Stating that the Maoists were not begging for favours, he said, "They (the Maoists) were of the opinion that hundreds of fake cases had been forced on innocent tribals who are unaware of them. They are being held in jails of Dantewada and Raipur without knowing what it was all about. They also have demanded that cases registered against an elderly journalist and Binayak Sen should be withdrawn."....................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTIvMDQvMjYjQXIwMTUwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom
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