War and peace
Peace may come to Nepal sooner rather than later, after talks between Nepal’s Prime Minister and the Maoist rebels. BBC News has just sent out an alert saying the latter has decided to join the government. Hooray!?
Meanwhile, an Iraqi suicide bomber with explosives in his shoes blew himself up inside a mosque killing ten and injuring 20 people.
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latter has decided to join the government. Hooray!?
Do you seriously think that an armed leftist terrorist group joining the govt. is a thing to rejoice? With Nepal being run by gutless bunch of Nehruvian political fossils, it is the Maoists who are gonna call the shots. I’ve no love for the king, if he is being tried for his crimes so should the Maoists be brought to book.
With Maoist government in place in Nepal, Indian Naxal situation is gonna go from bad to worse. Chinsese backed CPN has had a history of tie-ups with Naxals. Cult of Mao has gained a foothold in South Asia.
Re Nepal. Way too early to rejoice Sunny. The marxists’ minimum demand for a democratic republic and for the people of Nepal to endorse that sounds reasonable. The skittering around the issue of disarmament suggests that the marxists are definitely keeping their options open : if the lovefest doesn’t last- and going by past Nepali record on political wrangling that’s the more likely scenario- they simply revert to gunfire.
What’s the likelihood they’ll revert to gunfire anyway unless they get everything they want?
Sunny, just tried to send you a little weekend post contribution. Hope you get it.
I believe Nepalese maoists will not return to jungle (because they are too tired). But I dont believe they will accept multi party democracy. All they want is an absolute communism in Nepal.
Roger, they have already started getting what they wanted. After getting full control of power in Nepal maoist rebels will raise the issue of Greater Nepal to prolong their rule and get support from commeners. That means a security threat to India.
>What’s the likelihood they’ll revert to gunfire anyway unless they get everything they want?
They’re maoists.Duh!
I am just hoping that *some* (though I would hope for substantial) social reform by the government will neutralise the communist rural rank and file and the middle-class leadership gets softened and seduced by power and privilege, in the best nepali tradition.
The hot head students should be put to work or else they’ll remain a threat too.
Imagine the ensuing riots and deaths if this carnage was caused by an infidel laser guided bomb….
Yet the silence is deafening because it was a Muslim killer…
Somebody puts a Koran near a toilet in Guantanamo and 16 people die. A Muslim blows up a mosque and it’s barely registering on the Ummah richter scale.
fyi vikrant, the maoists in nepal are not backed by the Chinese government. get your facts straight before you post such comments.
“Cult of Mao has gained a foothold in South Asia.”
sounds like Indian capitalist would be fond of that statement.
Comrade Prachanda seems more of an authoritarian maverick than a maoist ideologue, going by these rather surprising views:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5105250.stm
Interesting times ahead.