FOUND SOLUTION TO TERRORISM
First week of August,2015 was hectic in terms of news with
respect to hanging of Yakub Memon and many arguments in favour and against in
continuation from the previous week, and further was fuelled by multiple terrorist
attacks. There were no dearth for sensational news. Among the same, many may not have noticed the eastern frontier
of India, where quite some people were celebrating independence with overflowing
happiness. The news about their happiness almost got drenched and drowned in
the propagation of hate and violence.
You may ask, me why I am going into unnecessary and irrelevant
areas. But surely I see some interrelationship between two. Look at the eastern
frontier. There are many religious people, predominantly Hindus and Muslims. There
is poverty among them. There is competition for resources. There are
multiplicity of culture and world vision involved, international border
involved, boarder disputes involved, and conflict of interest involved,
conflict of river water sharing involved. If we look at them, all are enough to
make the situation worse for perennial armed conflicts, mistrust and terrorism.
Same way let us turn our mirror into the western frontier of
our nation. The ground situation is almost equal and similar, as described
above.
Whereas during the same time, the eastern frontier was
celebrating their independence, sharing the love, care, and hugging each other,
as an outcome of resolving the conflict, sitting across the table, discussing, adopting give and take policy, keeping in mind
the paramount interest of the people at large, not looking at each other as
communities, but as Humans. But in contrast to it, on the western front, there
were firings, breaks of cease fire agreement, deaths, anger, infiltration,
killing, hanging the terrorist, crying, revenge, and ‘n’ number of unresolved
issues, which led to the impossible situation to sit around the table and talk.
So what made the difference?
So is the requirement to learn from history, rather than just
learning the history. Our conflict on both the frontiers starts way back to
1947, when the nation was divided on religious terms. The division occurred at
both the ends, with (then) eastern Pakistan, now Bangladesh, and western Pakistan as well. The ground
realities were same. The world’s mightiest armed forces were present with its
full vigour at the western front to contain violence. But it failed. It not
only failed for that time, but nearing a century, the use of force continues to
fail. The use of force to contain violence and establish human love and care
did not found success. The bloodshed continues. The hate continues. For this we
saw many armed conflicts. The revenge continues to breed contempt, feeding into
violence and hate, resulting into more bloodshed and terrorism.
But at that point of time, western front had seen the presence
of not the mighty army, but the sacrificial Ahimsa, as propagated by Gandhiji.
His declaration of sacrificial involvement, making a clear universal brotherhood
across the warring and conflicting communities, where the peace was established
for the generations to come. Even when there are conflicts of interest, inter
religious issues, the terms are within the possibility of resolving the issues
through mutual talks, based upon mutual trust and confidence building measures,
leaving the common man ultimate beneficiary. The Humanity is victorious there,
neither both sides.
So the bottom line is, violence breeds violence. Revenge
breeds revenge. Arms are not the tools
to establish lasting peace among humanity. It’s the sacrificial brotherhood,
and sharing and caring each other, which will breed the peace and tranquillity.
That’s the only solution to the ongoing terrorism world over.
Nothing else.
