Situation In Nepal

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I think that we should start stickies for every big revolution going on at present so here one is. I would appreciate it if someone made it a sticky.
The following is from A World to Win News Service:

July 19, 2004. A World to Win News Service. The Nepali weeklies Janastha and Janadharana have published similar reports about the torture of leaders and cadres of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) by the Indian authorities. The Nepali Maoists were arrested in mid-June in the city of Patna, northern India. In a statement condemning India for this incident, CPN(M) Chairman Prachanda said they were in Patna for medical treatment and party work.

Janastha wrote July 14, "Five Maoist leaders have been subjected to cruel torture and they have sustained severe injuries. Other cadres besides Central Committee members were also injured by torture." The weekly continued, "The situation of the other Maoist leaders arrested and imprisoned in Indian jails is not yet known."

The prisoners were tortured while held in police custody for 15 days after their arrest, before being transferred to Kadamkuwa prison in Patna. Among the CPN(M) central leaders arrested were Lokendra Bista, Hitbahadur Tamang, Kula Prasad K.C., Kumar Dahal and Anil Sharma. Chitra Bhadur Shrestha, a Central Committee adviser, is also among the imprisoned. Maoist leader Dilip Maharjan and women leaders unnamed in this report were also tortured. One of the women comrades suffering from internal injuries is held in another prison, Phulbari jail in Patna, the newspaper reported.

Janadharana said July 15 that the leaders were subjected to both mental and physical torture in Indian police custody.

According to the reports published in both weeklies and some dailies referring to broadcasts by the Maoist FM Radio People's Republic of Nepal, torture by the Indian police has caused severe urinary problems for Bista. Similarly, Dahal has sustained injuries around the eyes. Prasad cannot move one hand. His back was also injured, and he has bruises all over the hands and body caused by beating, the weeklies reported. Another central leader has gone deaf because of torture applied to his ears. Indian police crushed comrade Sharma's fingers. They placed his fingers on an anvil and hammered on them while interrogating him as to his role in party work. They also hit him in the teeth and eyes. Sharma was already suffering diabetes and kidney problems. According to reports, the Indian police stripped these prisoners naked while they beat them. Because of blood pressure and kidney problems, Shrestha is in a critical situation.

The Nepali Maoists are continuing to face mistreatment after their shift to prison. Instead of receiving the regulation food and supplies valued at Rs. 75 (equivalent to 2 dollars) each a day, they are getting only rotten food valued at Rs. 10 (equivalent to 27 cents) per day. The Nepali prisoners have lodged a petition against the authorities in the Patna civil court. Maoist revolutionaries in India have issued a statement demanding that the Indian regime comply with international law regarding the humane treatment of political prisoners.

According to the newspaper reports, in addition to the Nepali Maoists, Indian Maoist leaders are also imprisoned in this jail. The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (People's War) central leader Abhindrakumar and regional leader Rabindra were transferred to Bhagalpur prison after having been accused of speaking with the Nepalese Maoists. Similarly, another prisoner, Sachitananda Prabhat of the All India People's Resistance Forum of Bihar and Jharkhand, has filed a petition against the inhuman treatment of the Maoist prisoners by the Indian police. Recently the Indian administration reportedly killed a political prisoner from the Indian Maoist movement in this jail.

Roshan Kumar Yadav, a member of the All India People's Resistance Forum, said that the struggle raised by his organization forced the authorities to shift the prisoners from police custody to jail. Comrade Yadav, previously reported to be waging a hunger strike against police torture, has now been transferred to prison as well. He has appealed to human right activists to raise their voices in favor of the Maoist leaders.

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I think that we should start stickies for every big revolution going on at present so here one is. I would appreciate it if someone made it a sticky.
The following is from A World to Win News Service:

July 19, 2004. A World to Win News Service. The Nepali weeklies Janastha and Janadharana have published similar reports about the torture of leaders and cadres of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) by the Indian authorities. The Nepali Maoists were arrested in mid-June in the city of Patna, northern India. In a statement condemning India for this incident, CPN(M) Chairman Prachanda said they were in Patna for medical treatment and party work.

Janastha wrote July 14, "Five Maoist leaders have been subjected to cruel torture and they have sustained severe injuries. Other cadres besides Central Committee members were also injured by torture." The weekly continued, "The situation of the other Maoist leaders arrested and imprisoned in Indian jails is not yet known."

The prisoners were tortured while held in police custody for 15 days after their arrest, before being transferred to Kadamkuwa prison in Patna. Among the CPN(M) central leaders arrested were Lokendra Bista, Hitbahadur Tamang, Kula Prasad K.C., Kumar Dahal and Anil Sharma. Chitra Bhadur Shrestha, a Central Committee adviser, is also among the imprisoned. Maoist leader Dilip Maharjan and women leaders unnamed in this report were also tortured. One of the women comrades suffering from internal injuries is held in another prison, Phulbari jail in Patna, the newspaper reported.

Janadharana said July 15 that the leaders were subjected to both mental and physical torture in Indian police custody.

According to the reports published in both weeklies and some dailies referring to broadcasts by the Maoist FM Radio People's Republic of Nepal, torture by the Indian police has caused severe urinary problems for Bista. Similarly, Dahal has sustained injuries around the eyes. Prasad cannot move one hand. His back was also injured, and he has bruises all over the hands and body caused by beating, the weeklies reported. Another central leader has gone deaf because of torture applied to his ears. Indian police crushed comrade Sharma's fingers. They placed his fingers on an anvil and hammered on them while interrogating him as to his role in party work. They also hit him in the teeth and eyes. Sharma was already suffering diabetes and kidney problems. According to reports, the Indian police stripped these prisoners naked while they beat them. Because of blood pressure and kidney problems, Shrestha is in a critical situation.

The Nepali Maoists are continuing to face mistreatment after their shift to prison. Instead of receiving the regulation food and supplies valued at Rs. 75 (equivalent to 2 dollars) each a day, they are getting only rotten food valued at Rs. 10 (equivalent to 27 cents) per day. The Nepali prisoners have lodged a petition against the authorities in the Patna civil court. Maoist revolutionaries in India have issued a statement demanding that the Indian regime comply with international law regarding the humane treatment of political prisoners.

According to the newspaper reports, in addition to the Nepali Maoists, Indian Maoist leaders are also imprisoned in this jail. The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (People's War) central leader Abhindrakumar and regional leader Rabindra were transferred to Bhagalpur prison after having been accused of speaking with the Nepalese Maoists. Similarly, another prisoner, Sachitananda Prabhat of the All India People's Resistance Forum of Bihar and Jharkhand, has filed a petition against the inhuman treatment of the Maoist prisoners by the Indian police. Recently the Indian administration reportedly killed a political prisoner from the Indian Maoist movement in this jail.

Roshan Kumar Yadav, a member of the All India People's Resistance Forum, said that the struggle raised by his organization forced the authorities to shift the prisoners from police custody to jail. Comrade Yadav, previously reported to be waging a hunger strike against police torture, has now been transferred to prison as well. He has appealed to human right activists to raise their voices in favor of the Maoist leaders.

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I think that we should start stickies for every big revolution going on at present so here one is. I would appreciate it if someone made it a sticky.
The following is from A World to Win News Service:

July 19, 2004. A World to Win News Service. The Nepali weeklies Janastha and Janadharana have published similar reports about the torture of leaders and cadres of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) by the Indian authorities. The Nepali Maoists were arrested in mid-June in the city of Patna, northern India. In a statement condemning India for this incident, CPN(M) Chairman Prachanda said they were in Patna for medical treatment and party work.

Janastha wrote July 14, "Five Maoist leaders have been subjected to cruel torture and they have sustained severe injuries. Other cadres besides Central Committee members were also injured by torture." The weekly continued, "The situation of the other Maoist leaders arrested and imprisoned in Indian jails is not yet known."

The prisoners were tortured while held in police custody for 15 days after their arrest, before being transferred to Kadamkuwa prison in Patna. Among the CPN(M) central leaders arrested were Lokendra Bista, Hitbahadur Tamang, Kula Prasad K.C., Kumar Dahal and Anil Sharma. Chitra Bhadur Shrestha, a Central Committee adviser, is also among the imprisoned. Maoist leader Dilip Maharjan and women leaders unnamed in this report were also tortured. One of the women comrades suffering from internal injuries is held in another prison, Phulbari jail in Patna, the newspaper reported.

Janadharana said July 15 that the leaders were subjected to both mental and physical torture in Indian police custody.

According to the reports published in both weeklies and some dailies referring to broadcasts by the Maoist FM Radio People's Republic of Nepal, torture by the Indian police has caused severe urinary problems for Bista. Similarly, Dahal has sustained injuries around the eyes. Prasad cannot move one hand. His back was also injured, and he has bruises all over the hands and body caused by beating, the weeklies reported. Another central leader has gone deaf because of torture applied to his ears. Indian police crushed comrade Sharma's fingers. They placed his fingers on an anvil and hammered on them while interrogating him as to his role in party work. They also hit him in the teeth and eyes. Sharma was already suffering diabetes and kidney problems. According to reports, the Indian police stripped these prisoners naked while they beat them. Because of blood pressure and kidney problems, Shrestha is in a critical situation.

The Nepali Maoists are continuing to face mistreatment after their shift to prison. Instead of receiving the regulation food and supplies valued at Rs. 75 (equivalent to 2 dollars) each a day, they are getting only rotten food valued at Rs. 10 (equivalent to 27 cents) per day. The Nepali prisoners have lodged a petition against the authorities in the Patna civil court. Maoist revolutionaries in India have issued a statement demanding that the Indian regime comply with international law regarding the humane treatment of political prisoners.

According to the newspaper reports, in addition to the Nepali Maoists, Indian Maoist leaders are also imprisoned in this jail. The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (People's War) central leader Abhindrakumar and regional leader Rabindra were transferred to Bhagalpur prison after having been accused of speaking with the Nepalese Maoists. Similarly, another prisoner, Sachitananda Prabhat of the All India People's Resistance Forum of Bihar and Jharkhand, has filed a petition against the inhuman treatment of the Maoist prisoners by the Indian police. Recently the Indian administration reportedly killed a political prisoner from the Indian Maoist movement in this jail.

Roshan Kumar Yadav, a member of the All India People's Resistance Forum, said that the struggle raised by his organization forced the authorities to shift the prisoners from police custody to jail. Comrade Yadav, previously reported to be waging a hunger strike against police torture, has now been transferred to prison as well. He has appealed to human right activists to raise their voices in favor of the Maoist leaders.

[Subversive Pessimist]

I think that we should start stickies for every big revolution going on at present so here one is. I would appreciate it if someone made it a sticky.



Resonance with you. I too would appreciate if someone would made it a sticky out of this thread.

[Subversive Pessimist]

I think that we should start stickies for every big revolution going on at present so here one is. I would appreciate it if someone made it a sticky.



Resonance with you. I too would appreciate if someone would made it a sticky out of this thread.

[Subversive Pessimist]

I think that we should start stickies for every big revolution going on at present so here one is. I would appreciate it if someone made it a sticky.



Resonance with you. I too would appreciate if someone would made it a sticky out of this thread.

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Nepal Maoists Open Strategic Offensive in People's War
Revolutionary Worker #1254, October 10, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org

On August 31, 2004, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) announced the opening of a strategic offensive in the People's War.

This exciting news came right after Nepal's Prime Minister Deuba returned from a five-day trip to India where much of the discussion centered on stepping up Indian intervention in Nepal with the backing of the United States.

A press statement from the CPN (Maoist) said that the decision to launch the strategic offensive was made at a recent 10-day meeting of the party's Central Committee, led by Chairman Prachanda. The meeting was held "in a base area in the countryside, in a convention hall specially decorated with banners and canopies" protected by "a special security cordon of the People's Liberation Army" with "the full assistance of the broad masses of people."

The People's War in Nepal began in 1996 and from the very beginning, the CPN (Maoist) conceived of their revolution as a "protracted war" that goes through stages--from the strategic defensive, to strategic equilibrium, to the strategic offensive.

Mao's theory of "protracted people's war" recognized that in semi-colonial, semi-feudal countries like Nepal, the revolutionary forces start out weak and small compared to the government forces and that to engage in all- out military battles would only lead to getting crushed. But by avoiding decisive tests of strength and by waging guerrilla warfare, the revolutionary forces can defeat and weaken the government forces in smaller battles and through a protracted process, gain popular support, increase in strength and numbers, and extend their control. Building rural base areas and establishing military control and political authority in ever larger parts of the countryside allows the revolutionaries to surround the cities from the countryside and eventually seize country-wide political power.

After the initiation of armed struggle in Nepal, there was a relatively long period of the "strategic defensive"--where the revolutionary forces were weaker than the enemy and had to accumulate strength over a protracted period of time on the basis of guerrilla warfare. The military struggle then reached the stage of "strategic equilibrium"--where the two sides were relatively equal, neither was able to decisively destroy the other and the fighting was increasingly characterized by larger-scale mobile and positional warfare. At this point, the CPN (Maoist) analyzed that the entire society recognized the existence of two different states in the country, each with its own army and institutions.

The decision to enter the stage of a strategic offensive means that the Maoists in Nepal have now determined that they are able to make their immediate aim the decisive destruction of the enemy's armed forces, the seizure of power, and the establishment of the rule of the people throughout the country.

The Maoist forces in Nepal now control 80 percent of the countryside, where they have established base areas and new people's power. Revolutionary forms of government control much of the countryside--where new revolutionary institutions run daily life--from the distribution and farming of land, education, taxes, the building of roads and latrines and the running of people's courts. The fact that the government has lost control in the countryside is a widely recognized fact. And the strength of the Maoists has increasingly been felt in the cities as well.

For a week, beginning on August 7, Kathmandu was isolated by a military blockade called by the CPN (Maoist) and the United Revolutionary People's Council, the united front organization under the party's leadership that is the embryo of the future people's government. Strikes by the Maoist-led trade union also closed down the country's biggest and most hated companies. The strength of the Maoists was demonstrated by their ability to stop most vehicular traffic in and out of the nation's capital, which has a population of 1.5 million.

In the past, the PLA has enforced blockades on district capitals, especially in the western region, which has been a Maoist stronghold. But this was the first time such a blockade was imposed on the capital. The BBC reported, "They got a massive response and huge publicity without a single bomb or landmine on a highway." The World to Win News Servicereported: "Traffic into and out of the `capital was from several thousand vehicles a day to about 150 in the first days, and all of those were either military or under tight Royal Army escort. Certainly the Maoists could not issue an order so completely obeyed even by the biggest transport companies if they hadn't built up much military strength and badly weakened the armed forces and authority of the enemy. But the will they imposed on the government and companies was clearly that of an enormous and growing part of the people. That is the `secret' reason why the blockade succeeded even though there were no major military clashes."

This blockade and broad support for strikes called by the All Nepal Trade Union Federation (Revolutionary) were part of the process of weakening the reactionary regime and preparing people in the cities to rise up when the party judges the time ripe for urban insurrection in connection with successfully surrounding the cities from the countryside. During the blockade, other embargoes were carried out in nearby Eastern districts within the Kathmandu valley. And a contingent of the 5th Brigade of the People's Liberation Army took action against the Royal Army in the Sindhupalchok district, which is also not far from Kathmandu.

When the People's War started in 1996, they did not have a People's Army. They started out with small fighting groups of five or six people, armed with very primitive weapons--some single shot rifles and Khukuri knives. Over the first five years, the guerrillas built up their fighting capacity by carrying out guerrilla actions against police posts and hated local reactionaries. They were able to capture weapons from government forces and step by step build up larger fighting units--from squads to platoons, and then later brigades and companies. Successful military actions created freedom for the guerrillas to expand their influence and authority--and as police and reactionaries were run out of villages, a power vacuum was created, making it possible for the establishment of a new "people's power" and eventually base areas under the control of new revolutionary government institutions.

In 2001 the CPN (Maoist) announced the establishment of the People's Liberation Army, which reflected a leap from mainly guerrilla forces to a regular revolutionary army. Now, with the announcement of the strategic offensive, the party has announced that the People's Army will grow to three divisions. This means that in addition to the previously existing Eastern and Western divisions organised by the PLA under the party's leadership, there will be a PLA division in the country's central region--which is where the regime's capital is located and its economic, political and military power is focused.

In addition to the PLA's current three divisions, nine brigades and 29 battalions the party announced that it will raise a people's militia of 100,000 members organized into companies under the leadership of the PLA at the district and regional level. The party also announced a new plan "to provide defensive and offensive training to the broad masses of people to fight tunnel warfare against foreign intervention." In the wars against the U.S. in Korea and Vietnam, the use of tunnels to protect soldiers and civilians and spring surprise attacks was an important way of neutralizing enemy air power.

Documents from the Central Committee meeting warned of direct intervention by India, backed by the United States and the press statement pointed to the arrest of several leading comrades of the CPN (Maoist) in different cities in India as one sign of this.

When Nepal's Prime Minister Deuba went to New Delhi in September, along with a 66-member entourage, the People's War in Nepal was the main item on the agenda. The Indian government agreed to give the Nepali royal regime three light advanced helicopters, 20,000 INSAS rifles, 15,000 7.62 mm Self-Loading Rifles (SLR), 5,000 machine guns of various calibers, 800 trucks and jeeps, 100 Mine Protected Vehicles (MPVs), bullet-proof jackets, helmets, land mines, barbed wire and other war material. India will also provide military trainers and the idea of sending Indian troops to intervene directly in Nepal is being openly debated in the Indian press.

According to an official joint statement, the Nepali and Indian prime ministers also discussed the need for an extradition treaty between the two countries and agreed to finalize it in October. India is currently holding CPN(M) leaders Mohan Baydhya, C. P. Gajurel and other leaders and members. At this time it is illegal for India to extradite them to Nepal, but Indian authorities have already kidnapped other Nepali Maoists and handed them over to the royal regime.

The Kathmandu-based daily Himalayan News Service reported on September 10: "The U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, James F. Moriarty, today said his country was working closely with India to ensure that Maoists do not get outside help and are never able to take over the capital." Moriarty also said, "India has a big role to play in resolving the Maoist problem. Considering the military assistance and diplomatic help it has provided to Nepal, I conclude that Maoists will not be allowed to take over Kathmandu."

One commentary in South Asia Intelligence Reports , referring to the blockade on Kathmandu, said: "That week exposed the vulnerability of the Deuba Government and its capacity to govern. India sent strong signals to assure Kathmandu that it would not allow the Nepalese state to collapse."

Meanwhile, the threat of increased intervention by the United States is very real. Washington is supplying Nepal with 20,000 M-16s, as well as night-vision and communication equipment, and special-forces counterinsurgency training. U.S. aid to the Nepalese royal regime has almost doubled, from $22 million to $40 million this year. American soldiers have been conducting joint training exercises in Nepal with the Royal Nepalese Army. Earlier this year, the Himalayan Times quoted an American official who said that a U.S. Congressional delegation was in Nepal as part of a mission to collect information about the country's civil war and the whole of South Asia. And the U.S. has put the CPN (Maoist) on their "terrorist list"--laying the basis for even more intervention and the criminalization of international support for the struggle in Nepal.

A strategic offensive by the Maoists in Nepal will mean a big jump in the level of military battles, the danger of direct foreign intervention and a situation that could lead to a decisive struggle over who will hold political power in Nepal.

Articles from the A World to Win News Service were used in writing this article.


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how come all major figures on this board shun capitalist democracy completely but instead of making a stick about any of the revolutions going on in the world they sticky a thread about an elected socialist leader?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

how come all major figures on this board shun capitalist democracy completely but instead of making a stick about any of the revolutions going on in the world they sticky a thread about an elected socialist leader?

Yes, I quite agree. I think the sticky about the reformist should be removed. But at the same time I don't we should have a sticky over a peasant rebellion in some pathetic little country. Maoism sucks.

[Kez]

There have been no stickies on Chavez, rather on the revolutionary process in Venezuela.

Although i agree we should also have a sticky on Nepal.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

The situation in Venezuala has some relevance (Just don't rely on Chavez to carry the day - it's the masses that matter) But a few peasants with AK-47s are hardly going to make waves.

[Yazman]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2004, 06:51 AM
But at the same time I don't we should have a sticky over a peasant rebellion in some pathetic little country. Maoism sucks.
It sure is great to know the people here are developing their sense of internationalism and class unity. :rolleyes:


"some pathetic little country"?

What the fuck? All of a sudden a revolution in Nepal is "a rebellion in some pathetic little country" ? What the hell makes YOU any better than them? You fucking bigot, how dare you speak of another people in such a way.

[Skeptic]

Of course it is the stinkin' USA which is backing the old regime! All power to the people of Nepal! Another World Is Possible!

From A World to Win News Service
U.S. Intervention in Nepal: The Facts
Revolutionary Worker #1245, July 4, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org

The following article is from A World to Win News Service.

June 14, 2004. A World to Win News Service. At the end of April, the U.S. replaced its envoy to Nepal. The Bush administration brought home ambassador Michael Malinowski six months before his tenure was completed. James Francis Moriarty was named to replace him. The new diplomat said that he would work with the old state of Nepal, which the Nepalese people hate and have been fighting to overthrow. At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Moriarty declared that, like his predecessor, "If confirmed, I promise...to work in close coordination with our international partners to assist the government of Nepal in countering the Maoist threat." Also like his notably unsuccessful predecessor, Moriarty tried to wrap U.S. intervention in Nepal in concern for human rights and combating "terrorism."

The actual content of U.S. intervention in Nepal, however, shows this to be pure hypocrisy in the service of naked counterrevolution. By "working with our international partners," the U.S. means it is "coordinating" with India against the people's war led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). It is also working with the UK and Belgium to supply the hated Nepalese monarchy with arms and other military aid, and giving unconditional political support to the old regime, regardless of human rights or any other consideration except a determination that revolution in Nepal must not be allowed to succeed by any means, armed or otherwise.

First of all, "coordinating" with India means that the latter country has been waging an intense campaign against Nepalese revolutionaries visiting or living in India, even though the borders between the two countries are supposedly open. Most recently, on June 2, Indian police arrested 11 leading members of the CPN(M), the United People's Revolutionary Council it leads, and other Nepalese in the Indian city of Patna. This incident follows the kidnapping and overnight extradition to Nepal of CPN(M) leaders Matrika Prasad Yadav and Suresh Ale Magar and India's continuing imprisonment of Chandra Prakash Gajurel (Comrade Gaurav).

Secondly, and most centrally, the U.S. is "coordinating" the arming of the monarchy with the UK, Belgium, and India, with itself playing the main role. At least 30 American soldiers conducted joint training exercises with the Royal Nepal Army (RNA) in April according to Nepali newspaper reports. A C-130 Hercules giant transport plane brought the soldiers to Nepal. An RNA spokesman said the U.S. flight crew was learning flying skills over Nepali terrain. "The flight and maintenance crew of C-130 is here for joint training exercises," the daily Himalayan Times quoted an American official, who added that at the same time a U.S. Congressional delegation was in Nepal as part of a mission to "collect information" about the country's civil war and the whole of South Asia. There have been widespread reports that U.S. personnel are involved in surveillance and reconnaissance operations in Nepal and are working with the RNA to develop operational plans.

The U.S. also gave the RNA 5,000 M-16 automatic rifles and promised another 20,000 as part of a new $17 million military aid package announced in April for the coming year. The British government said in May that it was providing two spy planes and additional military supplies. The aircraft can be fitted with machine guns and night vision equipment. Belgium has supplied the old regime with thousands of automatic weapons. The Indian government is reported to have sent helicopters and other hardware.

Thirdly, the U.S.'s political support for the monarchy really has been unconditional, no matter what its representatives say. The new U.S. ambassador announced that he would work with the old Nepalese regime "to strengthen its democratic institutions and improve its human rights record." Yet the U.S. and Indian governments are reported to have vetoed a United Nations resolution calling on the UN to strengthen human rights monitoring in Nepal. The U.S. and Indian move came at the session of the 53-government UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Furthermore, at a meeting of the Nepal Development Forum in Kathmandu where many donor nations took an unequivocal stand against the Nepal regime's human rights violations, the Bush administration remained silent on these issues. This could only indicate approval of the monarchy's kidnapping, torture, and murder carried out against the population in the name of combating the Maoists.

The U.S. claims it is supporting "democracy" in Nepal in the form of a "constitutional monarchy." Yet it had nothing to say when Gyanendra became king by having the former king and most of the royal family murdered. The U.S. has continued to support Gyanendra politically, economically, and militarily despite the fact that he dissolved parliament in October 2002 and took power into his own hands, a situation that has not changed with his recent appointment of a new prime minister. No doubt the United States would like the cover of a parliamentary system to disguise the fact that the U.S. and India control the country. But American behavior has made it clear that the U.S. would prefer any government at all rather than see the country liberated.

It should be noted that a senior official accompanying U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell when he visited Nepal in January 2002 announced that in a meeting with Nepalese defense officials, the Secretary made it clear that any military assistance the United States provided would be "non-lethal." This was just an out-and-out lie.

When Powell met with the chief of the Royal Army and took detailed notes about the Royal Army's fight against the Maoist revolutionaries, he said, "The United States is very concerned about what is happening in Nepal, and we hope that the Nepali government will play an important role in fighting against terrorism not only inside of Nepal but all over the world." This justification of blatant interference in Nepal with the now-standard references to "terrorism" has no more truth to it than the concocted claims about Saddam's now-infamously non-existent "weapons of mass destruction" that Powell peddled at the UN. Now the U.S. is trying to get Nepal to send troops to help rescue the beleaguered occupiers in Iraq.

The U.S. has put the CPN(M) on its list of "other terrorist groups." As Moriarty arrived in Kathmandu, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said, "We have designated the Maoists under an Executive Order, blocking any Maoists' assets in the U.S. or held by U.S. persons, wherever located, barring U.S. citizens from transactions or dealings with the Maoists." This is a very serious move toward criminalizing all international support for a revolutionary struggle.

Nepal's students delivered an irrefutable slap in the face to these attempts to slander revolution as "terrorism" in a national strike that shut down all the country's educational institutions starting June 6. Students from thousands of schools and colleges took up the demands of the Maoist-led All-Nepal National Free Student Union (Revolutionary): that the government remove the "terrorist" label it had stuck on the organization, that it free imprisoned Maoist leaders, and that school fees be lowered. Some international aid organizations criticized this strike as "interfering" in education, as though the country's feudal monarchy and foreign domination, not to mention the lack of truly free education, were not the source of the country's almost 50% illiteracy.

The degree to which the Maoist demands represent the will of the people was partially revealed in a recent national "mini-referendum" students organized at 30 university and college campuses across Nepal. Of the 35,366 students who took part, about 99% percent (34,906) supported the demand for a republic - in defiance of the king, the parliamentary parties and the U.S., UK, Belgium, and India, which all support the ruling monarchy in one form of another and are trying to use armed terror to prevent the emergence of a Maoist-led people's republic.

Of course, what most reveals the will of the people is the fact that the world's only superpower and its allies and underlings have been unable to turn back the Nepalese people and their ever more powerful and armed demand for revolutionary change.


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[Hiero]

Originally posted by [email protected] 9 2004, 09:02 PM
The situation in Venezuala has some relevance (Just don't rely on Chavez to carry the day - it's the masses that matter) But a few peasants with AK-47s are hardly going to make waves.
The now control like 70% of the country and once they can they will start to concentrate on teh major cities. This is Maoism and it seem's to be working. But your just to pathetic to see that and rather go around thinking that chavez is some great revolutionary.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Yazman


"some pathetic little country"?

What the fuck? All of a sudden a revolution in Nepal is "a rebellion in some pathetic little country" ? What the hell makes YOU any better than them? You fucking bigot, how dare you speak of another people in such a way.

I said it in such a way to emphasise the fact that the situation in Nepal means nothing to workers in the West, while Venezuala is much more westernised and therefore more relevant.
Did I mention the Nepalese' race at all? no I didn't, so don't you dare call me a bigot.

Comrade Neonate


The now control like 70% of the country and once they can they will start to concentrate on teh major cities. This is Maoism and it seem's to be working.

To do what? establish a bourgeois republic? that's all very well and good but of little relevance.

" The situation in Venezuala has some relevance (Just don't rely on Chavez to carry the day - it's the masses that matter)"

Pay special attention to the bolded parts - It effectively says I do not regard Chavez as some sort of superhero.

[Subversive Pessimist]

But at the same time I don't we should have a sticky over a peasant rebellion in some pathetic little country. Maoism sucks.

I guess we have to reach the conclusion that Mao was right when he said that even some people in the communist party (in this case it's commie club), are against global socialism.



I said it in such a way to emphasise the fact that the situation in Nepal means nothing to workers in the West, while Venezuala is much more westernised and therefore more relevant.

Me, myself and I. Fuck those who don&#39;t live in the West. They live worthless lifes in pathethic little countries. <_<

About 90 percent of the people of the world DON&#39;T live in the West.

Try www.capitalism.org

Maybe you will find some "profit" in posting there. <_<

[h&s]

I guess we have to reach the conclusion that Mao was right when he said that even some people in the communist party (in this case it&#39;s commie club), are against global socialism.
Oh so if we don&#39;t suport that idiot we aren&#39;t international socialists? <_< Hmmm, I&#39;ll have to say that is complete bullshit&#33;
Sure we should be supporting the people of Nepal, but as far as the Maoists are concerned, we shouldn&#39;t. We don&#39;t want another China now, do we?


Me, myself and I. Fuck those who don&#39;t live in the West. They live worthless lifes in pathethic little countries <_<
Way to go Comrade&#33; Insult pretty much everyone on the board&#33; I wish I could make friends the way you can&#33;
Seriously, if you think my, and others on this board, live&#39;s are &#39;wothless&#39; you can go fuck off, and never come back. :angry:

[Sabocat]

I am going to pin this, as it&#39;s a good topic to discuss and debate. I think it is as important to discuss this situation as it is to discuss the Venezuela situation.

[Subversive Pessimist]

Excesses of Nepal army win recruits for Maoists
(Filed: 21/09/2002)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...21/wnepal21.xml (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/21/wnepal21.xml)



Hidden among pine trees, overlooking a deep valley,
a heap of freshly turned earth was all that marked a hilltop grave.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2002/09/21/wnepal21.jpeg
Young Nepalese Maoist rebels

Mukti Nath Gautam, 65, knelt beside the patch of bare ground, where tangled undergrowth served as a tombstone, and prayed for his son. Four months ago he found his son&#39;s blindfolded corpse lashed to a tree trunk and riddled with bullet wounds. Mr Gautam cut down the body of Tej Prasad, 29, and buried him.

He remembered the moment when soldiers of the Royal Nepalese Army arrived at his village, Sirubari, and took away his son, a father of four. "I told the soldiers, please kill me instead. What can I do if you kill him? Why you kill my son? Please take me instead."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2002/09/21/wnepal21.gif

The graves of five other men were scattered along the wooded hillside. One was so shallow that the monsoon rain had washed away much of the earth, partially exposing the remains of Cheing Lama, 35.

All six were victims of an operation mounted in the Himalayan foothills against Nepal&#39;s increasingly confident Maoist guerrillas. The hatred of the army sparked by this and other incidents helps to explain why the rebels - although their own brutality is unequalled - have substantial popular support.

The Maoist movement now wields de facto control over most of Nepal. By following the Mao Tse-tung model of guerrilla warfare - becoming "fish swimming in the ocean of the people" - the insurgents have won dominance of the Himalayas and of the foothills. King Gyanendra&#39;s rule is now limited to Kathmandu, Nepal&#39;s few towns and the southern lowlands of the Terai.

The Maoists succeeded in closing down Kathmandu with a general strike on Monday, showing that they can challenge the king in his capital. A British military source has no doubt that the rebels are heading for victory. "They will continue to gain ground. Unless something dramatic happens, it&#39;s only a matter of time before they win," he said.

The intensity of the Maoist campaign has cruelly exposed the government&#39;s inability to contain the threat. A fortnight ago, the rebels attacked two military bases and killed 100 soldiers and policemen in the space of eight hours. They broke a brief ceasefire last November by mounting 60 raids across the country in a single night.

In the reported incidents of a single day this week, the Maoists destroyed a telephone exchange, raked a courthouse with gunfire, burnt down a village development committee office and bombed an electricity sub-station. They decapitated one local official, leaving his torso near his house, and assaulted a teacher, ordering him to produce £600 or face death.

By wrecking every state institution within reach, the Maoists are following the instructions of their Chinese mentor. They hope to render Nepal ungovernable.

The Maoist movement has grown from the genuine grievances of an impoverished, low caste, peasant majority suffering under the rule of a corrupt, high caste, urban elite.

Nepal embraced democracy in 1990, but the lack of any real social improvement has sowed deep disillusion. The Maoist insurgency began six years after the advent of democracy and has claimed 5,000 lives. But the rebels have carefully avoided harming foreigners, perhaps explaining why their remarkable success has gone largely unnoticed outside Nepal.

One British military source said the Nepalese army had "certainly lost the battle for hearts and minds", while the police were "useless and discredited." If they are ever to defeat the Maoists, the security forces need help. But British sources say their human rights record makes it impossible for London to offer direct military aid.

In the Himalayan foothills, the army&#39;s brutality also serves as a "recruiting sergeant" for the Maoists. In Sirubari, 40 miles from Kathmandu, villagers described how 300 soldiers descended at 5 am on May 29.

A man in military uniform, with his face hidden in a red cloth, accompanied the patrol. He was said to be a Maoist prisoner and he picked out five men, claiming that they were rebels, despite their family&#39;s denials.

Mr Gautam&#39;s son was taken from beside a dirt track. His nephew, Ganesh Prasad Gautam, 32, was also arrested. Tika Prasad Dulal, 70, was dragged from his home with his elderly brothers Bhakta Lal, 65, and Ghalak Prasad, 55. The sixth man, Mr Lama, was brought from a neighbouring village. The men were marched to a hillside half a mile away. Villagers heard bursts of automatic gunfire. When they dared to leave their houses the following morning, they found the bodies.

The army denies this version of events. Col Dipak Gurung, its spokesman, described the six men as "terrorists" who had ambushed a military patrol. "That area was infested with Maoists," he said.

Further along the valley, where the hills curve gently towards Kathmandu, a roofless, shattered police station was evidence of the latest Maoist operation. The rebels had blown the building to pieces in a night raid. Step by step, the attacks are reaching closer to the capital.

[BuyOurEverything]

Yes, I quite agree. I think the sticky about the reformist should be removed. But at the same time I don&#39;t we should have a sticky over a peasant rebellion in some pathetic little country. Maoism sucks.

But a few peasants with AK-47s are hardly going to make waves.

I understand your dissatisfaction with any and all branches of socialism other than your one perticular sect of anarchism, but &#39;a few peasants with AK-47s are hardly going to make waves&#39;? What the fuck? I suppose they would be better communists if they had more money, more sophisticated weaponry and spoke English? Hell, if they were white they&#39;d be even more relevant to westerners and get more airtime on CNN&#33; Fuck asians, nobody cares about them anyways.

[bunk]

Oct 15: Nepal&#39;s Maoist rebels announced Friday a nine-day ceasefire, to go into effect next week, for the country&#39;s biggest Hindu festival, Dasain.

"The Maoist party has decided to suspend all military actions from October 20 to October 28 to allow the Nepalese to celebrate the Dasain festival," Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said in a media statement. Dasain celebrates the worship of the Hindu goddess Durga who vanquished demons and saved humanity. It is the scenic Himalayan kingdom&#39;s most popular festival, bringing together family and friends. The Maoists have been fighting since 1996 to topple the monarchy and replace it with communist rule in an increasingly bloody battle that has claimed more than 10,000 lives. It was unclear whether the ceasefire announcement could pave the way for a renewal of peace talks between the government and the rebels. A group of prominent Nepali civilians headed by retired Supreme Court judge Krishna Jung Rayamajhi set up a peace commission this week and called for a truce for the festival. Violence has surged here since a peace dialogue collapsed in 2003, with around eight people dying on average daily in insurgency-related incidents. Prime Minister Sher Deuba has said his government wants peace and is waiting for the Maoists to reply to a recent offer of talks. The Maoists&#39; demand for a constituent assembly, which ultimately aims at seeing the world&#39;s only Hindu kingdom being declared a secular republic, has scuttled two previous attempts to reach peace.

[KrazyRabidSheep]

But a few peasants with AK-47s are hardly going to make waves.

The Qaddafi in Libya, the Idi Amin in Uganda , the Viet Cong in Vietnam, Somali Warlords, Laos, the Afghan Mujahedeen even used AK-47s against the Soviets

In Mozambique the peasants with AKs was so key that there is an AK-47 on the flag

The AK-47 is not one of the most sophisticated firearms, but that is not a bad thing. They are rugged, reliable, durible, easily repaied, inexpensive to produce, easily adapted. It is a very light gun with rapid fire. Since it is a rifle, it is relitively powerful and accurate.

An AK is soldier proof. It can even be submerged, loaded, then fired. A soldier will find it difficult to break. If the break it it can probably be reapired in the field. If it can&#39;t be repaired, it can be replaced (and taken apart for spare parts)

Kalashnikov&#39;s rifle is perhaps the best all-around gun ever produced. It&#39;s incredible longevity is testiment to that. No other gun has been in use for so long with so few design changes.

Before you rule them out, you must realize, a group of peasants can be a dangerous thing, expecialy when armed. These mobs have changed the world time and time again, just look to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

[Frederick_Engles]

another armed revolution of a weak dictatorial capitalist plutocracy to be replaced by a strong dictatorial capitalist plutocracy

[1949]

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

Central Committee

Press statement

Our attention has been attracted towards the concern expressed by the representatives of international communities including United Nation recently on the situation of Nepalese civil war and peace negotiation. Our party has always been taking side of peace negotiation with the purpose of making the Nepalese people sovereign in real sense and finding solution of civil war through forward going political outlet. It is well-known that we had taken part in the negotiation with the grave feeling and full of responsibility for that purpose, for two times. But it has been proved that the feudal elements that want to make an adventure of imposing military rule even having confiscated the limited democratic achievements of the movement of 1990, has tried to use the negotiation as tool to fulfill its regressive vested interest. On this bitter historical background, our party has come up with the conclusion that the negotiation with the old state could have given a meaningful result only on the mediation of either UN or any other reliable internationalist human right organization. But the old state, instead of positive initiative towards that direction, has been continuously increasing process of miniaturization, killing of the masses and terror. The broad masses of the Nepalese people have been beholding that almost all the Military generals of the so-called Royal army and palatial feudal who have been addicted of collecting a huge amount of property through corruption in the reference of civil war, are in essence, indulged in conspiracy to intensify civil by propagating negotiation externally with the ill-intention of confusing the international public opinion. In the present condition of this conspiracy, happening against the spirit of the Nepalese people as well as of the lower rankings Royal Army personnel, we have no other options left before us except to resist vigorously in favour of the country and people and against the feudal military autocratism. We also humbly appeal to the pro-people international communities to help the poor Nepalese people by stopping all kind of economic, political, military and diplomatic assistance to the old feudal state that has been pushing the country into the black-whole through miniaturization by rejecting our proposal of UN mediation and universal democratic demand of constituent assembly.

15 Nov. 04

Prachanda

Chairman

Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist)

Central committee

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Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

People’s Liberation Army Nepal Western division

Press Statement

Against “the strategy of the old state” which is, on the language of our Supreme Commander of the People&#39;s Liberation Army, Nepal comrade Prachanda, “enhancing the killing and violence in the countryside by making hullabaloo of peace negotiation, not accepting international mediation for peace negotiation, continuing its own military preparation on the conglomeration with Indian expansionism”, the People’s Liberation Army western Division Command has been enhancing its activities under the unified forward-going transformation plan.

On 15 November 2004, the PLA has, on the process of searching at Masuria market of Kailali district, finished a spy of the enemy army advanced to attack with pistol, and other seven suspects are arrested and investigation is underway. Similarly, on the same day a personnel of the Royal army has been finished in Dhangarhi (a district headquarter of Kailali-western Nepal).

Similarly, a contingent of the western division of the PLA, on 16 November of 2004, took position at Pahalmanpur bazaar, nearby the so-called camp of the security forces of the Royal Army in Kailali for 4 hours and attacked over the Royal Army advanced from both sides of Dhangarhi and Sukhad barrack and finished 10 Royal Army personnel. The PLA has been successful in paralyzing the aerial attacks of the enemy and dismissed the Royal army advanced with military vehicles. In this action PLA has been successful in seizing many war materials including M-16 1 piece, SLR 4 pieces and 1250 bullets of it, 2inch mortar cell 2 pieces, magazine 16 pieces, MINIMI – bullet sets 1 piece.

In this process, platoon commander comrade Adarsha has got martyrdom and other 4 comrades have received minor injury. We announce comrade Adarsha a great martyr and wish a quick recovery of the injured comrades. We would like to appreciate and thank to Comrade Bibidh the vice commander of Western division of the PLA who took a successful leadership of the action with heroic, courageous and sacrifice in fulfilling the party’s plan from the higher level of understanding.

17 November 2004

Pravakar

Commander

People’s Liberation Army, Nepal

Western division

CPN (Maoist)

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more at <span style='color:red'>Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) English site (http://www.cpnm.org/new/English/english_index.htm)</span>

[1949]

Statement of the Provisional Organising Committee (Europe)
WORLD PEOPLE&#39;S RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
Call for Urgent Action:

New Moves by the Indian State Place the Life of Nepalese Revolutionary Leader
Comrade Gaurav (Chandra Prakash Gajurel) in Increased Danger

On August 20, 2003, a senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), and a member of its political bureau, Chandra Prakash Gajurel, known to millions of people in Nepal and South Asia as Comrade Gaurav, was arrested by the Indian authorities as he attempted to travel from India to Europe. Since 1996 the CPN (M) has been leading a People&#39;s War that has been sweeping through Nepal. The purpose of Comrade Gaurav&#39;s trip was to build support in the battle against imperialist intervention in his country and to explain his party&#39;s position in the peace talks with the government which were taking place at that time. At the time of his arrest the Indian government claimed he was being held for using a forged passport. Although in India such a charge is considered a relatively minor offence and is usually resolved quickly by paying a fine, Comrade Gaurav has been held in jail for over a year in the city of Chennai without a formal "charge sheet" being filed by the prosecutor and with no trial date being set. During all this time the threat that India would turn Comrade Gaurav over to the hands of the Nepali regime where he would face almost certain torture and very likely death has hung over his head.

Essentially he has been used as a political hostage by the Indian government in its efforts to save the regime of the reactionary monarchy in Kathmandu which has been a loyal servant of Indian interests for decades. In the last year the Indian government has become especially worried because the revolution Comrade Gaurav is helping to lead and which clearly enjoys the support of the vast majority of the population has succeeded in liberating 80% of Nepal&#39;s territory and people. The response of the Indian government has been to send millions of dollars of military equipment to the Royal Army of Nepal and to unleash a wave of political repression aimed at the 8 million Nepalese living in India and especially any suspected of supporting the People&#39;s War. Dozens of Nepalese revolutionaries have been arrested by the Indian authorities and then, in violation of Indian and international law, summarily turned over to the Nepali regime where they have been further abused, tortured and even murdered.

The most notorious example of such treatment is the case of Matrika Yadav and Suresh Ale Magar, two leaders of the CPN (M) who were arrested in India on Feb. 8, 2004 and then deported to Nepal without any proper legal proceedings whatsoever. At first the Nepali regime denied any knowledge of their whereabouts. Then on Feb. 26 Nepalnews.com reported that a representative of the Royal Army admitted at a press conference that both where in the custody of the army but refused to disclose the location where they were being held. This refusal raised great concern that both were being subjected to torture. Now, on Oct. 30, 2004, Nepalnews.com has reported that the Supreme Court of Nepal has recently ordered the government to reveal the whereabouts of both since such secret arrest without charge is in violation of Nepalese law. According to Nepalnews.com, "The government in its response to the court has claimed that no security agencies have been ordered to detain the rebel leaders." Further the government is claiming that it has "no information regarding the detention of Yadav and Ale Magar." The danger is great that both have been "disappeared". This is especially so when one considers that Amnesty International reported that in 2003 more people were disappeared by the Nepalese regime than by any other government in the world.

In light of all this, recent moves by the Indian government now point to an increased and urgent danger to Comrade Gaurav&#39;s life. According to the lawyers representing Comrade Gaurav the prosecution has now presented to the court its final report - the charge sheet - and has formally charged Comrade Gaurav with a violation of the Indian Passport Act. Under this act the maximum penalty is two years in prison or a fine. This opens a number of possibilities for what will happen next. Since Comrade Gaurav has already served over a year in prison, it is possible will release him without further punishment, sentence him to serve the remaining part of the two years or release him on payment of a fine. However, none of these possibilities are likely to lead to his freedom. This is because the Indian authorities have already made clear that upon being released from jail they intend to transport him to the Indian state of West Bengal where he has already been formally charged with two counts of "attempting to wage war against India". Another senior CPN (M) leader, Comrade Kiran (Mohan Baidhya), who was arrested while in India to undergo urgently needed treatment for cataracts is already being held there under the same charges. The Indian government claims that because the CPN (M) has expressed political support for revolutionary parties and organisations in India that all the members of the CPN (M) are "guilty" for any acts carried out by revolutionary organisations in India. This argumentation makes more than obvious that these new charges are politically motivated and have no factual basis. Their only role is to provide the Indian government with a "legal" excuse to continue to hold Comrades Gaurav and Kiran hostage. What is even more dangerous is that after being "convicted" the danger that Comrades Gaurav and Kiran could be extradited or deported to Nepal will increase.

The World People&#39;s Resistance Movement calls on chapters and supporters of the WPRM as well as progressive people around the world to take immediate action to protest these actions by the Indian authorities and to step up the struggle to defeat the plans to extradite Comrades Gaurav and Kiran and other Nepalese prisoners to Nepal, and win their freedom. Act now, as tomorrow could be too late&#33;

October 30, 2004
World People&#39;s Resistance Movement (Europe)
www.wprm.org Contact WPRM Europe at: [email protected]

link (http://www.wprm.org/en/documents/POC_Com_G_%20Oct_%202004.html)

[PRC-UTE]

Thanks for posting this, I&#39;ll do my bit for this man and I hope others do as well.

Free Comrade Gaurav&#33;

[bunk]

stick.

[Raisa]

[ I stuck this thread]

Stay solid people&#33; :)