| oohi_ashu |
Posted
on 17-Sep-01 01:06 PM
The public mood in Kathmandu these days seems to be very much anti-Maobadi.
This is a remarkable change from even two months ago. Even in villages, there
are now, as reports say, ordinary people ae keenly safeguarding their freedom and liberty by taking actions AGAINST their Maoist harassers. This had to
happen -- sooner or later.
The Maoists seem to have lost much support as they have spent the last
few weeks forcibly extracting food and supplies all the more from ordinary
Nepalis (small shopkeepers, chiya-pasal-wallahs, etc) all over.
I see no reason why BRB -- an articulate man -- cannot and could not use
dialogue and reason to convince the larger public of what his aims are, and see
if people agree with him out of their own free will, without threats and coercion.
The trouble with BRB is that he KNOWS all, and he wants to know nothing more . . . the usual characteristic of a would-be dictator.
Though the Nepali Congress ko government's conduct too is relatively khattam (with corruption and what not!), at least we the citizens have the option of throwing it out in the next elections, however academic that option may sound. But with the Maoists, we do not even have that option. It's their way or
death. No dissent tolerated. Any opposition would be shot.
As simple as that.
I think -- after the failure of the two rounds of talks -- the Nepali government NOW should stop appeasing to the Maoists (a la Chamberlain's appeasing to Hitler). Since private properties and freedom of many Nepalis have been attacked and threatened, the govt, should declare the Maoists as terrorists, and work toward building a public opinion against the Maoists while calmly, strategically and diplomatically using the growing international anger against "terrorism of all kinds" to root out and crush the networks of terrorism spawned in Nepal by BRB and his dangerously misguided cronies.
Sure, there are some in Nepal who argue that dealing with the Maoists with force
will result in the loss of Nepali lives as Maoists too are Nepalis. But the truth is that the Maoists seem not to care at all about the loss of lives of innocent Nepalis anyway as long as they get their way. How long are we the citizens to tolerate this asault on our right to live as we legally please in Nepal?
Already more than 2000 ordinary Nepalis have lost their lives anyway; and the bloodthirsty Maoist rebels want to stop at nothing to get their way. Meantime, self-declared Nepali "human rights activists" such as Padma Ratna Tuladhar appear only as apoloists for the Maoists. Tuladhar's INCONSISTENT stands on human
rights have convinced me that the guy, for all his behavioral politeness, is a
muddled philosopher and a biased referee.
The views above are mine and mine alone.
Disagreements are welcome.
oohi
ashu
ktm, nepal
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Some 2000 Nepalis have alrealy lost their lives since Nepal Communist Party (Maobadi) launched "Janayuddha" in early 1996. After Six years of "Janyuddha", the Maobadis are sitting face to face with the government. The success or failure of this much awaited TALK will greatly impact all Nepalis. Failure of the talk will most likely lead us to a long civil war.
In this context, Martin Chautari is organising a discussion program this TUESDAY to discuss the Current Nepali Politics. Professor Dhruba Kumar from CNAS will lead the discussion by analyzing the ongoing government-maobadi talk and the position of both government and maobadis.
You ALL are invited to participate in the program.
Date: TUESDAY, 18 September 2001 (2 Asoj 2058)
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: Martin Chautari Premises, Thapathali
Phone: 256239, 240059
Feel free to disseminate this information.
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| GP |
Posted
on 17-Sep-01 09:28 PM
Kudos to Ashu. Its good that the peoples in Nepal are slowly
realizing what Maoists are, as many intellectuals predicted
long time back. Peoples of Nepal still enjoy life without much
political clashes, that peoples of many developed countries
like Japan, Europe, USA learned. Nepali people take every
thing granted and considered Maoists as easy going terrorists
"not harming to me" type of thoughts. Even majority of
Kathmanduities were positive towards, "Maoist Aye pani
huntho chhittai", now with just one mass gathering
the whole Kathmandu went against the Maoists. Its good
that Pratikar Samuha are garadually developing. From
Rautahat, Maoists have already gone to hell. Such
resistance should develop.
The lack of vision on Nepali communists could be
seen from AMALE's stand on Maoists issues. Until before
a few weeks back, the AMALE Leaders like Nepal and
Oli used to ask with Maoists not to Attack UML cadres,
because we belong to same political thoughts and they
never used "don't innocent peoples and peoples of
diverse political thoughts" , they, literally meant,
Maoists have freedom to attack on peoples who are
on border line between communists and non-communists
parties. As we know peoples on border line are most
important in countries where open election is the method
of electing leaders to parliament, but, the nepal and oli
forgot this part and enjoyed the attack on peoples on
borderline and non-communist party workers. They
allowed the Maoists snakes to swell and get enough
taste of blood, and finally, when Maoists started
asking UML elected representatives to resign, then,
UML leaders realized disaster of their earlier policy
of "mitra sakti lai prahar nagarna anurodh". Finally,
they got the answer for feeding milk to snakes.
They deserve this much of humiliation. Its good to
Deuba government too, because it allows the public
consensus that Army Chief wanted long time back.
Now, Kantipur Pub. is also against Maoists and
its good time to mobilize the Army, and as CK Lal at
Nepali times says, Nepal is the only country where
Police is supposted to combat with armed terrorists,
and if public consensus developes Mr. Rana will
not deny to use Army in combating the terrorism.
The recent raid is one success, and lets hope the
CDOs in Terai will also ban the mass meeting just
one day before the meet as a harassment, and its
essential because money for such mass meeting were
collected by force by using arms and threats. It can not
be called a peaceful gathering.
GP
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