{"id":64256,"date":"2009-05-02T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.tehelka.com\/?p=64256"},"modified":"2009-05-02T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T16:09:34","slug":"the-crpf-is-a-goonda-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/the-crpf-is-a-goonda-force\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The CRPF Is A Goonda Force\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_64354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64354\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64354\" title=\"Shashi Bhushan Pathak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Shashi1.jpg\" alt=\"Shashi Bhushan Pathak\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shashi Bhushan Pathak<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Why can\u2019t the police take on Jharkhand\u2019s uncontrollable Naxals?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe police can\u2019t put out the Maoists [Naxals] by force. The police only kill innocent people, which is wrong. The government should give the CPI (Maoist) political party status and hold talks. The Andhra Pradesh talks [in 2004] between that state government and the Maoists saw zero human rights violation from either side.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>Goverment says they\u2019re criminals.<\/strong><br \/>\nThen why haven\u2019t the police controlled them? This is an ideological problem, not crime. Naxalism is a creation of democracy\u2019s failure. To pretend to be democratic and actually take the pain to practice the democratic process are two different things.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>You claim that the Naxals are popular in villages. Why would that be?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Maoists did several good things. They supported the \u2018nationality\u2019 movements [for local sovereignty]. Then they worked towards creating \u2018land banks\u2019 [for community farming]. They made sure poor mahua flower pickers became the owners. If Jharkhand still has 30 percent forests left, it\u2019s only because of the Maoists. The government and the forest mafia have virtually denuded the state\u2019s forests. Lastly, the Maoists ensured \u2018speedy trials\u2019 through their own justice system.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>But why take innocent train passengers hostage?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I guess they oppose any symbol of state machinery.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><strong>The police say the five men killed by CRPF in Latehar on April 15 were Naxals.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe CRPF is a goonda force. The five killed were innocent villagers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shashi Bhushan Pathak of PUCL, Jharkhand, says the police only kill innocent people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":64359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[8829,1176,955,5131,6941,1181,8830,8831,6916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}