Arundhati backs Maoists, dares authorities to arrest her


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Mumbai, 04 June 2010: Criticism for romanticising Naxalism notwithstanding, Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy has justified the armed resistance by Maoists and dared the authorities to arrest her for supporting their cause.

While claiming that she does not support violence, the 48-year-old author-activist feels that the Naxal movement could be nothing but an armed struggle as the Gandhian way would not have been successful in the present context.

"The Naxal movement could be nothing but an armed struggle. I am not supporting violence. But I am also completely against contemptuous atrocities-based political analysis," she said delivering a lecture on ’The War on People’ organised by the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights here late last night.

"It ought to be an armed movement. Gandhian way of opposition needs an audience, which is absent here. People have debated long before choosing this form of struggle," Roy, who had saluted the "people of Dantewada" after 76 CRPF and police personnel were mowed down by Moists in the deadliest attack targeting security forces, said

 

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Juliana Noronha, Udupi / Mumbai Fri, June-4-2010, 7:37
The statements made by Arundhati Roy are not convincing. Naxuls do nothing but voilence, killing innocent people.
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