Democracy and Violence

In response to ...
http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/16/stories/2009011654981100.htm

In the article "Democracy and Violence" the author pointed out the
stark realities of Salwa Judum. However his statements that although
the people's verdict was in the favor of it, it was still amongst the
most draconian and evil provisions challenges the very corner stone of
democracy. Every principle or procedure set up in the governance of a
country has certain associated axioms, these are fundamentals that can
not be proved but are assumed true with a sufficient degree of
confidence upon which the theorems and guiding principles of the
framework get created. "Voters are the best judge to decide what is
good or bad fro them." is one such principle which gives rise to the
entire paradigm of democracy and which separates it from other systems
like communism where we assume that "state is the best judge". What
the honorary author has done is challenged this basic axiom in
questioning the peoples verdict in deciding their own welfare.
Many a times its not possible to judge every situation from the same
perspective (reference to Punjab massacre). The punjab massacre was
massacre in which the pogrom was against the innocent citizens however
the primary targets of Salwa judum happen to be naxalites. It is
totaly agreed that Salwa Judum has been used as an instrument to
exploitation but if we think on a pragmatically we need to understand
that everything comes with an associated cost just to cite an example
we daily hear of human rights violations by the Armed forces, does
that mean that we scrap the institution leaving our country
defenceless; we hear of cases of casting couches in film industry does
that mean we put a ban on the entire film industry. Salwa Judum gave
unarmed helpless people,left totally orphaned by the state security
apparatus, a hope of their defense, which has been clearly manifested
in form of the election verdict. Each of us has his or hers own
biases and so does the author, but events like the chattisgarh
election should prod us to reconsider our viewpoints.