In recent years I find people are sympathetic to Maoists .I
am not. For one thing if it is ok to use power of gun to take hold of political
power, then it is ok for somebody to kill you or your family or children for
that reason. My experience in Naxalite era was terrible. I never heard of any
person being killed by Maoists who were real big fishes (meaning who were
really big in terms of money) .I saw only very
insignificant people ( in terms of money once again) like a guard of a train
etc. who had no protection of any sort being murdered in broad daylight. Once I
was crossing a road and found a crowd of people watching two young men lobbing
the head of a beheaded man playfully to each other. I found very honorable men
like Hemanta Bose being murdered. People these days are particularly vocal
against the how police killed people in fake encounters those days. No one
seems interested to know what happened before that, what made police to act in
such brutal way. I was in school (class 7) and I and a septuagenarian teacher
were barely saved from being killed by a bomb thrown outside of my classroom.
They stopped all schools and work to standstill. Ordinary people were fearful
of treading outside home even in daylight. Home was also no safe haven because
people were forcibly dragged outside of their home and family and killed openly
in front of everybody else's eye. I heard two men bragging openly how many men
they killed without slightest harm to themselves and found people appreciating
them and laughing with them. I do not want those days to come back.
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