Operation Sitting Duck and trying to move forward

• Folks calling for war, are the least likely to be called to take up arms in the forests of Dandakaranya
• The Indian Government and Maoists have one thing in common. They are both equally foolish. Only fools of the lowest order think that they can win a war (any war). 
• Tribals and Jawans are sitting ducks in Operation Greenhunt. 
• Nobody and I mean nobody is talking peace. Particularly in parliament. (If they are, they are not visible).
• The Jawans killed were sacrificial lamb.Just like the people of Kalinganagar.
• Why can folks not condemn violence on both sides without having to qualify, rationalize or justify violence?
• If there is a revolt, only the government can be blamed. 
• You take a jaw for tooth. Very mature. What next?
• By asking for people who want a halt to green-hunt to be "locked-up", the media (like the maoists and the Home Minister) has completely lost the plot.

Suggestions 

• Government's Confidence Building Measures
  Complete and total moratorium on ALL mines
• That are less than 5 years old
• All future mining projects
  
• Create a negotiation team
• A group of 7-10 people
• No present or past bureaucrats/para-military/maoists/high profile politicos
• Should have corporate, tribal, academic and civil liberties representatives
• Group mandated to bring both sides to the negotiation table by any means other than physical force.
• Immiediate goals
• Paramilitary forces remain in the red corridor, halt all engagement and retain their current strength
  
• Maoists call an immediate and complete halt to all violence and cadre movements.

• Start moves to create local tribal councils that
• Has purview over all land acquisition and related compensation (no project of tribal land can happen without their explicit consent and participation)
• Council should have a LARGE number of elected members from tribal communities
• Decides on whether specific mines should be nationalized or localized or privatized
• Need for constitutional provision and democratic mechanism to make this work.