weapons vs governance

Have been thinking about the reasons behind the Indian government's trend of using weapons and commandoes instead of democratic governance structures to deal with its people.
Just finished reading this article which has come out in Tehelka
Some memorable excerpts:

"... The police is supposed to go after particular individuals – say, Ram Lal, a criminal. But in an operation of this kind, you don’t even know who Ram Lal is, it is very difficult to know who he is or get accurate intelligence on his movements. You might end up killing Ram Lal’s relatives or his whole village. And if you don’t hold inquests, you’ll never know who you killed ... "

But isn't this what's happening in the name of various 'operation's for our 'security' all over?

" ... How many tribals even know there is a government? Their only experience of the State is the police, contractors, and real estate goons. Besides, the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution grants tribals complete rights over their traditional land and forests and prohibits private companies from mining on their land. This constitutional schedule was upheld by the Samatha judgement of the Supreme Court (1997). If successive governments lived by the spirit of the Constitution and this judgment, tribal discontent would automatically recede ... "

If only mainstream media was sane enough to keep this in mind
By the way, here is a short version of the Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution

To end, here is a quote by Himanshu Kumar, who has been working for the last 17 years in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, (excerpted from the same article):
“We can all be agreed on the premise that Naxalism is a problem, but why are these poor people attracted to a politics that will end in death? Have we created such a heinous system that death is more attractive than the deprivations and humiliations this system doles out? If that is so, why should I defend this system? All that these people want is food, health care, school, clothes and their legitimate right over their land. Yet, instead of weaning them away by strengthening the democratic process, if we are going to run our democracy only on the strength of weapons, I fear we are entering a dangerous and irrepairable state. We are headed for civil war.”