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Posted
on 15-Jul-01 08:30 PM
Read it No: 10 Jul 15 2001 7:09PM By : Lee Enfield
Weekly Poll has this article: Read it.
It's amazing how none of the political parties condemn the actions of the Maoists rebels when they attack police posts and slit the throat of a school teacher. Now that the army finally seems to be doing its job, the leftist parties are preaching restraint. We hardly ever hear the opposition parties condemning the killings of policemen and unarmed civilians by the Maoists. As for the calls of holding talks, one should first refer to Bubaram's latest interviews, where he clearly states that they want do away with the parliamentary system and replace it with a republic with a communist dictatorship. It's a case of take it or leave it. In light of that stance, what good is it talking to them. They are like tigers who having had the taste of human blood can't seem to stop kiling men. Baburam also says that the deaths of 2,000 is a cheap price to pay since revolutions normally claim millins of lives. He clearly implies that he is willing to see the deaths of many more Nepalese to bring his version of utopia to Nepal. In the past months, ever since the massacre in Dunai, Dolpo, when the army for some absurd reason refused to help out the police, the rebels have become increasingly bold. Knowing the army would not take them on, they continued to harrass the police. Come to think of it, their attacks on the police posts could hardly be called brilliant or heroic. In all of their major attacks, they sent in 300 to 1000 rebels to attack posts manned by less a 100 policemen. To add to the woes of the police, the rebels not only ounumbered them many times over, but had better weapons (including home made bombs). Now, when the rebels finally come face to face with a better equipped force, it must have come as a rude shock to the rebels. I'm sure many of the young Maoist recruits had no idea what a real battle would be like. It's sad, but a lot more young people from remote villages will have to lose their lives, before they begin to realize that their leaders having misleading them by extorting them to KILL, KILL and KILL. When their leaders convinced these young men that "POWER COMES FROM THE BARREL OF THE GUN", these leaders forgot to tell these gullible youngsters that "IF YOU LIVE BY THE GUN, YOU DIE BY THE GUN".
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 15-Jul-01 11:55 PM
Hi GPji:
When a criminal at a village kills a person, do police kill him
at sight or apprehend him and produce in court?
In Nepal, normally, we produce criminals in court, and try them
and if found guilty, send them to penitentiary.
Ditto in other consitutional countries.
Only a few fundamentalist countries practice blood-for-blood
penal policy. Taliban may practice that.
Rebels ensnared by RNA in Rolpa can seen in the same case. They
are criminal, a large gang of criminal who are in trap now.
Those who choose to surrender has right to defend themselves in
court. Teenagers have special penal system, and adults have
special. Army can't simply go there, and kill everybody.
Bloodsheds never solved any situation in long term.
RNA is doing its job patiently and discretely. People don't
probably understand the delicacy of situation.If for some reason
army loses this battle, the consequences are grave.FYI,Royal
Nepal Army is suffering from a lot of problems now, and Rajya
Byabashtha Samiti has offered a lot of suggestion to amend those
problems.Problems include the low payment, lowly treatement of
jawaans, feudalism inside the army, and poorly paid and badly
maintained army barracks. To think that army is insuperable, and
there is necessarily US Vs Iraq situation is irrational. Army
should be given freedom to gauge its options. Corrupt leaders
like Girija can't reap the victory of those jawaans.
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