Back to the Track The surrender of 305 cadres of the United Liberation Front of Barak Valley (ULFBV) in Guwahati on Tuesday marks the end of the Reang outfit’s armed revolution for a separate homeland. It has taken eight years for the ULFBV leadership to realize the futility of armed struggle and the fact that political dialogue is the best way to resolve issues stemming from a sense of discrimination and neglect. As ULFBV founder general secretary Rodingliana Chorkhy said, ‘‘We have realized that we can’t achieve anything by armed struggle. As far as development of our community and other tribal groups is concerned, we are still there where we were seven years ago. We have realized that only political dialogue can ensure development for the tribal groups.’’ If this realization is a result of the outfit’s frustration at being a failed force in projecting the problems of the Reang community of the Barak Valley and getting them resolved, it must inform the other armed ‘revolutions’ accordingly — that not violence, but only a meaningful peace dialogue can usher in progress and all-round development of the communities whose causes are being violently championed by the non-state actors in the field. Chorkhy said that the process for a political solution to the problems of the Reang community had begun with the surrender of his outfit. Their demand has now shifted from a separate homeland to a separate zilla parishad for all the tribals of the Barak Valley, the objectives being to ‘‘get schools, health centres, roads and power for the tribals’’ which ‘‘will be possible once they get the zilla parishad’’ as Chorkhy has claimed. The outfit would now sit for peace parleys in the presence of representatives of the Union Home Ministry. The ULFBV’s post-surrender demands also include restoration of land to tribals, compensation and settlement for its members, ex-gratia amounts to the kin of its cadres who lost their lives, and general amnesty. These are demands which a militant outfit would naturally voice after its mass surrender. However, in the ULFBV’s case, the equation is slightly different because the outfit is yet to be disbanded. The outfit would have done a greater service to its peace cause if it were to disband itself along with the surrender.This brings us to one of the most vicious post-surrender possibilities as Asom has witnessed right from the days of the first batch of ULFA cadres who had ‘laid down’ their arms and ammunition only to re-emerge as yet another violent breed of surrendered rebels in the form of SULFA — with their violence allegedly licensed by the State. Thus followed a gory cycle of violence and counter-violence between members of ULFA and SULFA, while the State machinery reportedly used SULFA men to keep a tab on the movement of their former colleagues and help the security forces in eliminating them. True, the ULFBV cadres have surrendered en masse, and so there is no question of any militants and surrendered militants trying to gun down each other in the future. However, the fact remains that a tendency has been observed among the surrendered rebels in Asom to behave with the attitude of militants in the mainstream. There is a tendency, therefore, to legitimize violence because the government itself would seem to sanction it. Now that the ULFBV militants have surrendered, one needs to guard against that tendency. We have had enough of violence of the worst possible hues in this State of ours. source: sentinel assam editorial
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