| Namita |
Posted
on 09-Apr-01 11:17 AM
Listen, I Listened and I thank you for posting this piece of news.
It is amazing how a so-called “photo journalist” could be so biased. Then again, if I am not mistaken, she was introduced as a rebel magazine reporter. Still, one would expect an unbiased view from a reporter but this was clearly not the case. To me she was not a reporter but rather a spin-doctor. A spokes woman of Mao Insurgency in Nepal(!) – Ari Fleisch (or is it Fleischer?) of Bush Administration. Have you noticed how he sugarcoats every nasty agenda Bush proposes, every sane law he (tries to) disposes? Go back to this reporter’s interview and see how she justifies every monstrous act of this movement has committed. If they are killing hundreds of policemen who are nothing but defending their/our country, then it is (their act of defending their country) an act of aggression therefore they must be killed, beheaded! To some extent I can understand them killing the police force. If you believe for a moment this is indeed a war, as she likes to see it. But, how about the civilians they target? One has to be merely a suspect for them to hack their heads off. The people who are working for agencies like UN etc. These people are also these Maoists target. If you take this reporter’s argument that this is a war so they are trying to annihilate their (Maoist) enemies, then why are they targeting civilians?? Hasn’t she heard of Geneva Convention or how about Hague tribunal?
Just the name Mao makes my blood curdle. How many people Mao and his movement killed? 30 Million? Compare that to Hitler’s murderous rampage. How many Stalin Killed? This whole idea of Utopia the communists envision and propose is such a sham. Former Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Vietnam – WHERE EXACTLY? Just as when I hear about the corrupt politicians, inept blood suckers my remaining blood starts to boil.
I am not writing this to propose a detail solution of our country – too much to write and too little time. I just am outraged by this one sided report.
When people get killed I don’t see it in mere numbers 30 million, 40, 50 or 100 or two thousand. I see it as each life wasted every household devastated. Every mother crying for their sons and daughters. I wish some journalists would go out there and tell us about the suffering of these poor policemen. Interview their relatives, and see how similar their stories to these so-called rebels. These people do not come from elite group of the country. They are also marginalized and oppressed. Where is the justice for them? Where is the justice for the country?
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| Sally |
Posted
on 09-Apr-01 01:12 PM
Namita,
The journalist is associated with a Communist newspaper in the US. That's why she takes the viewpoint she does, and also how she got to do the interview. My sense is that the group she's associated with is Maoist. A girl I knew who was a real "red blanket baby," since her mom had been active in that particular Maoist group since back in the '60s, used to refer to Peru as "our revolution."
I recall this particular group, from my own time in college, as one that hangs around the fringes of student activist groups and tries to push them into more dramatic, confrontational protests. At one "Take the Back Night" march in college (it's an all-women anti-rape march), the small Maoist contingent tried to get us to trash a porn shop. (We didn't.)
I'm not Nepali so I haven't yet commented on this site, and I certainly don't have any "solution" for the Maoist situation. But I can't help but wish that some people who think that the ends justify the means that that violence is excusable--such as Lee Onesta (sp?)--could be locked into a room for even a few hours with the mother of the murdered policeman, the woman who was crying a few nights ago on the BBC news in Nepali. I didn't understand 100 percent of her words, but as a mother, and as a human being, it nearly moved me to tears.
Take care,
Sally
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