Maoist menace in Bihar : 1.
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Paraiya dogs become apna
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2006 12:08:38 AM]
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” In Bihar’s Gaya district, the counter-revolutionary reply to that could even be one of “Stray dogs of Paraiya unite! You have everything to gain without the chains!” In the Maoist-menaced police chowki of Paraiya where three constables were killed in July 2003, 36 stray dogs are currently doing night duty in and around the sprawling cop campus.
“It’s not always possible to keep a watch on every nook and cranny of the sprawling campus of the police station, especially at night time,” SHO Baidyanath Rai was quoted as saying by the BBC News. That job becomes far more difficult when the dilapidated police-station is plunged into darkness at night, thanks to very erratic power supply and no generator.
And so, in return for two daily meals of rice and pulses, accompanied off and on by chapattis, the stray dogs of Paraiya prowl the police-station premises at night, barking at all intruders so that the cops can flash their torches. And so what if the cops’ Lee Enfield rifles — also used by soldiers in World War 1 — are no match for the AK-47s of the Maoist militants!
The cops of Paraiya have little time to reflect on the irony that the state cannot afford to modernise the firepower of the policemen it employs to take on those who claim that power flows from the barrel of an AK-47 and not the ballot-box of independent India.
Some four months after Union home minister Shivraj Patil announced that rising Maoist violence would be tackled through police coordination and poverty reduction, the Lee-Enfield toting cops appear like have-nots when confronting the AK-47 wielding militants who claim to be fighting for the poor!
The only thing the cops of Paraiya have going for them is the articulate support of the stray canines who are not daunted by the prospect of being dubbed “the running dogs of feudalism”!
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2006 12:08:38 AM]
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” In Bihar’s Gaya district, the counter-revolutionary reply to that could even be one of “Stray dogs of Paraiya unite! You have everything to gain without the chains!” In the Maoist-menaced police chowki of Paraiya where three constables were killed in July 2003, 36 stray dogs are currently doing night duty in and around the sprawling cop campus.
“It’s not always possible to keep a watch on every nook and cranny of the sprawling campus of the police station, especially at night time,” SHO Baidyanath Rai was quoted as saying by the BBC News. That job becomes far more difficult when the dilapidated police-station is plunged into darkness at night, thanks to very erratic power supply and no generator.
And so, in return for two daily meals of rice and pulses, accompanied off and on by chapattis, the stray dogs of Paraiya prowl the police-station premises at night, barking at all intruders so that the cops can flash their torches. And so what if the cops’ Lee Enfield rifles — also used by soldiers in World War 1 — are no match for the AK-47s of the Maoist militants!
The cops of Paraiya have little time to reflect on the irony that the state cannot afford to modernise the firepower of the policemen it employs to take on those who claim that power flows from the barrel of an AK-47 and not the ballot-box of independent India.
Some four months after Union home minister Shivraj Patil announced that rising Maoist violence would be tackled through police coordination and poverty reduction, the Lee-Enfield toting cops appear like have-nots when confronting the AK-47 wielding militants who claim to be fighting for the poor!
The only thing the cops of Paraiya have going for them is the articulate support of the stray canines who are not daunted by the prospect of being dubbed “the running dogs of feudalism”!
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