Ramo:
The point, as you can see on the AI site and on Human Rights Watch, and as I mentioned in a previous post, is that there is no evidence of any such activity by the government prior to the Maoist insurgency. So this cannot be sluffed off as a case of "everybody is equally bad". The responsibility, as I said before, lies squarely on the backs of the Maoists.
Taxes are voluntarily, though not necessarily happily, agreed to. Extortion, in this case, proceeds from the barrel of a gun. This has direct bearing on the alleged democratic nature of society in rebel-held areas.
Originally posted by Ramo
The guerillas are pretty damn rotten, but the government is even worse. There're extrajudicial executions, "disappearances," indefinite detentions, arbitrary arrests, torture, the works......This isn't a pluralistic, free society that the Maoists are fighting against...
The guerillas are pretty damn rotten, but the government is even worse. There're extrajudicial executions, "disappearances," indefinite detentions, arbitrary arrests, torture, the works......This isn't a pluralistic, free society that the Maoists are fighting against...
What's the distinction?
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