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| barad |
Posted
on 23-Sep-03 03:52 PM
What was her fault?
Madhab Dhungel in Kantipur, 15 September
Seven-year-old Bhabana was a hardworking third grade student. This year she won Rs 300 for topping her class. It was on the evening of 9 September, Bhabana was playing outside her home in Kalaun, 20km south of Patan, when a grenade killed her. Earlier that day four Maoists and their local commander, Saroj, were returning from Bhattedara and stopped near the ropeway terminal for some food and alcohol. By the time they reached Kalaun, Dilip, the bomb specialist, was roaring drunk. They stopped for lunch at Baburam Maharjans shop where Dilip decided to teach his junior comrades how to use a grenade. He pulled the pin and threw the grenade out of the shop. The shopkeeper was showered with shrapnel but Bhabana, who was running towards her mother, was cut to pieces.
In the ensuing confusion, Dilip escaped. Although he got away, the villagers managed to detain his two comrades, Saroj and Prabin. By the time the local Maoist administrator Bhim Dwoj arrived, more than 150 villagers had gathered. Dwoj dismissed the incident as trivial. Incensed villagers tied up the Maoists and beat them up. They were so angry that they even turned on bystanders who urged restraint.
Dwoj left after saying he would bring Dilip along with local Maoist government chief Ram Kumar Syangtang alias Bikash and the district secretary. The people released the Maoists after they signed a paper that acknowledged their error. It read: An accident occurred due to our technical error. We shall give compensation. We shall return to help the family in the cremation.
But the next day the Maoists returned, threatening to kill one by one those who had spoken against them. That same night Rajkumar Darlami, his father and brothers from Kalaun were abducted. Rajkumar managed to escape, but the whereabouts of his father and brothers is not known.
Many Bhabanas are dying every day in Nepal. If her death on the outskirts of the city received so little media attention, we can only imagine what atrocities are going unreported every day. Instead of punishing their activists responsible for the death of a young child, the Maoists returned to her village to abduct and threaten the people who asked for justice. Their impunity will only make people more supportive of the government tagging the Maoists as terrorists. Prachandas and Baburams have to realise that the fathers of all Bhabanas will be living in this country for a long time yet.
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| suva chintak |
Posted
on 23-Sep-03 05:18 PM
The revolutionary plafulness of the Maoist comrades is becoming very costly for the country. Our intellectuals, however, show outrage to this megalomia only when Damannath Dhungana's house is searched. That is the pity...do we have no tears left for Bhavana? Or what about this guy who was shot, without any charges, jury, or a warrant?
Assistant Sub Inspector shot dead in Kathmandu
KOL Report
KATHMANDU, Sept 23 - Moist rebels has shot dead a junior police officer in Kathmandu early Tuesday morning.
Police sources said Assistant Sub Inspector Hari Kumar Tamang was shot dead at his rented appartment at 7:40 a.m. He died on the spot.
Tamang was posted at police headquarters.
Other details of the incident are not yet clear.(rk)
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| Qallu |
Posted
on 23-Sep-03 06:13 PM
Fu.ck the Maoist. I hope we will have justice someday when assholes like Dilip, Dwoj, Ram Kumar Syatyang, Babu Ram Bhattarai and Prachanda pay with their own precious lives for the atrocities they are committing today.
BTW can anyone share info about the whereabouts of the kids and family members of the Maoist leadership. Are they too comrades in arms or are they reaping the benefits of their fathers' plunder and murder of innocents?
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| ashu |
Posted
on 23-Sep-03 06:57 PM
>>>>>By the time the local Maoist administrator Bhim Dwoj arrived, more than 150 villagers had gathered. Dwoj dismissed the [death of the girl] as trivial. <<<<
I am struck by the ease with which the Maoists use the word "trivial" to explain away
the violence.
When BRB was asked about the murders of Krishna Mohan and his wife earlier this
year, he -- Nepal's most famous SLC Board First student with a rock-star-like following
in Kathmandu at the time -- said something like: "Let's not get tangled up in such trivial matters."
When pressed further, he lashed out: "What about the killings from the government side?" The questioning ended right there and then.
Answering a question with another question is the hallmark of political discourse in
Nepal, not limited to the Maoists alone.
Meantime, by banning public gatherings, by banning two people from riding a motorcycle, and by a series of further bans and prohibitions, the government -- in an obvious panic mode -- seems to be turning a difficult situation into a full-blown crisis.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Poonte |
Posted
on 24-Sep-03 09:32 PM
Suva-jee,
Just because some of us chose to make no further noise over what happened to Bhavana, because there was plenty made already, does not mean that we do not feel sympathies for her and her family. What happened to her is truly gruesome case of murder, and I too wish that those criminals be brought to justice as soon as possible. Same goes for the case of Inspector Hari Kumar Tamang jee.
The fact is, there is always so much out cry over more apparent physical violence, particualrly when they are committed by the rebels, that I myself see no need to add more to it, specially when such things have become more regular than one would have wished. It is the less apparent emotional and psychological violence like that against Daman Dhungana, and other physical violence committed by the state forces (which are surely being suppressed by the governement at this time), that I think needs more attention, simply because we do not hear of them often--NOT because they do not happen, but because they are suppressed.
Finally, for someone who is understandbly disgusted to the core with the Maoists, I am surprised that YOU should look at the Maoist at the same level as the government. One would expect government to adhere to the rule of law simply beause one would regard the government as higher, responsible authority than the Maoists. Maoists are who they are--"jungali" rebels who need not answer to anyone--and if you think the government should follow suit with the Maoist tactics, then you'd be calling on the government to become the same ruthless, cruel, insensitive, thugs that the Maoists are, whom you loathe so much.
Specially in these times of panic and chaos, if one doesn't have anyone to look upto for sanity, where would be the hope for peace? Or, hope for anything for that matter?
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