| Biswo |
Posted
on 15-Jan-01 10:13 PM
In this posting, I assume that a lot of our readers are like me:
out of Nepal since a long time, and politically noncomitted.
We first heard about the insurgency in the vague threats of the
ultraleftists after the revolution of 2046. They kept on
capitalizing in the weakness of the popular governments, and
though they never elaborated on their way of governmenance, they
started the insurgency.We just remained ignorant about their
struggle, right when they barraged us with the new martial terms
like 'Zeneva Convention for POW'(btw, I found that the convention
is applicable only in the war of two nations), civil war, hostage
and captivity, summary justice and lynching and other terminalogy.
We never believed our police that much, but we had to suddenly
rely on them for protection of our democratic right: irony!
While we were yet to know about the judiciary system of the 'Naulo
Janawaad', we heard about the lynching of local village rulers by
insurgents. While we were yet to know about the education system
in Maoism, we heard about their demand of anti-Sanskrit in
education, and when we were yet to know about the permission they
mete out in cultural front in their so called revolutionary state,
we heard about their student flocking cinema halls with the threat
of 'anti-Hindi ' cinema.
Our friends wrote us letter: They are winning: territory
and a few more hearts also.Huh.
As insurgency seems an unstoppable incidence, our corrupt leaders
who are the prime beneficiary of the insurgency(commission from
arm purchase, and helicopter rent) seem to have never figured out
the best way. Intraparty internecine bickering has consistently
been hallmark of Nepali Congress, our most 'democratic' party,one
that is apparently more responsible to solve this problem.
Still, as we see the army and paramilitary force gallopping to
jungles to deracinate the root of rebels, we feel anxious. We
think that rebels should capitulate themselves, because their
brand of brigandry is somewhat inconvincing path for arrogating
power in KTM,and we also see the vehement face off between army of Raajaa Birendra(may his heart be well by now,he too is spending
lots of money in his weak heart!) and ragtag assembly of Maoists.
It is very difficult to believe that the rebels will actually
pull through this confrontation,because they lack a solid popular
support to construct the pedestal of statecraft.Here lies our
dilemma: although we don't want people (either army or rebels) to
be killed, we also don't want rebels to take away people's freedom
of living in peace with their intransigence.
The face off is imminent: we can only ponder whether this
rebellion is a merely finite pheonomenon. Given the scant popular
support they command outside the periphery of sacred Rapti river,
the answer goes against the rebel's aspiration.
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