| Biswo |
Posted
on 21-Nov-00 01:06 PM
This news(see below) reminded me the Panchayat era.It is sad that police
enters the schools premise nowadays without any hesitation.
I think it is unethical to enter the school premise unless one
has substantial proof that some subvertive actions were being
done inside.The government/and the police seem to have been
desparate in their quest to quell Maoist insurgency.
The government should understand that it is entrusted with the task of
safeguarding of civil right in Nepal.The victory for democratic
institutes/practices is inevitable, so political problems like
Maoists'should be given considerable time to be ripe and be
phased out ,either automatically or because of fatigue or
considerable popular awareness.Government's temerity only
exacerbates problem,either by prolonging the time of insurgency
or by providing them some ,though temporary, support.At least,
it will make difficult to erode the existing support base of
the rebels.
The pitfall of all these actions are that the actions of present
government in this conflict should represent the traits of
democracy,sth that could compete against the Maoist ideology for
getting support from rank-and-file rebels, but the goverment is
surely being ran by some rash group (Koirala's kitchen cabinet is
not a great thing to surmise!) which improvises every startegic
decision without any undergird of rationality .Incendiary actions
like this doesn't emit good signal.
Another thing I don't like about Koirala group is its PR outlet.
Specially Bimarsha.I was avid reader of Bimarsha until I read
one report in another national newspaper some six years ago, in
which the editor of the newspaper charged Harihar Birahi,the
editor of Bimarsha, of being informant of Bhutan government. This
guy supposedly provided the information of government decision
and government position before every minister level meeting
between Bhutan and Nepal, the reason why Nepal was clobbered in
every of its diplomatic duel with the oppressive regime. Mr Birahi
never disputed the charge.
KATHMANDU, Nov. 21- Students belonging to the Revolutionary Students' Union aligned to the underground Maoists
have clashed with the police in a campus in the city centre.
According to eyewitnesses, the clashes erupted after the police forced their way into a closed-door meeting of
the Union at Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus Tuesday afternoon. The mood at the campus is reported to be tense.
After a brief clash inside the campus and amid massive student protests against the police intervention, the
police retreated outside, but students are reported to have attacked police with stones from inside the
college. The police responded with tear-gas and in the two hour-long clashes, students are claiming that at
least four students were arrested. However, the police say they made no arrests.
The building housing the administration building was also set on fire but the cause of the fire was not
immediately known. (rk)
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