| anepalikt |
Posted
on 24-Sep-01 11:46 PM
Look at the Maoist spin on it though.
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LALITPUR, Sept 23 - High-level leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoists) Sunday said the persons behind the September 11 terror attacks
in the United States were none other than revolting US citizens.
Chief Maoist negotiator for the peace talks with the government Krishna
Bahadur Mahara said, "The attacks were carried out by America's own
citizens, who were not satisfied with its rulers."
Mahara who is a politburo member of his party also labelled the USA as
the "world's biggest terrorist."
"The US has itself indulged in killing the people of poor countries,
labelling them as terrorists," Mahara said in a Maoist mass meet
organised in the historic Patan Durbar Square by its seven sister
organisations amid tight security by the Maoists' security squad.
He also blamed the US of sponsoring terrorists all over the world. This
is the first comment from the Maoists on the terror attacks in the twin
towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and Pentagon in Washington.
Speaking on the same occasion, another Maoist negotiator Agni Prasad
Sapkota said USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was the most
infamous criminal organisation of the world.
"The CIA is the world's most infamous criminal organisation," Sapkota
said.
He also accused the CIA, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) and India's intelligent agency - Research and Analysis Wing (RAW),
of designing a master-plan to suppress the Maoist's "People's War."
"This trio is also responsible for wiping out the entire family of King
Birendra on the fateful night of June 1," he added.
The mass meet was jointly organised by sister organisations of the
Maoist party - All Nepal National Independent Students' Union -
Revolutionary, All Nepal Women's Organisation -Revolutionary, All Nepal
Peasants' Organisation, Dalit Liberation Front, Newa Khala, Federation
of Nepalese Trade Unions and Tamang National Liberation Front.
Both the leaders also came down heavily against the government for
deciding to provide Nepal's airspace and land to the US warplanes, for
the probable attacks against Afghanistan.
Lawmaker of United People's Front Lilamani Pokharel, who was invited as
a guest to address the mass meet, echoed the Maoist's voice. "The US
attacks is a step taken against the capitalism and imperialism sponsored
by the US," said Pokharel.
He also blamed the Bush administration for labelling everyone opposing
the US "a terrorist". "If the US has the right to strike in Afghanistan,
the terrorists too have the right to attack the US."
Maoist leader Mahara also warned the government not to try to bring the
Maoists within the constitutional framework through the peace talks.
"The exit of the present crisis in Nepal is the establishment of a
republican state," he said.
Mahara also blamed the government of trying to jeopardise the
environment of talks by massively mobilising the army in different parts
of the country and by not fulfilling their minimum demands. "However, we
are committed in solving the problem through dialogue," said Mahara.
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