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Puppet Nepal Govt. await Gyanendra’s fate: Dr. Bhattarai
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[FONT=Verdana]Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai who is already being taken as the prime minister in waiting which got only substantiated by his one and half hour long secret tête-à-tête with the Indian envoy to Nepal, Rakesh Sood last week, has in a threat loaded statement said that the Maoists’ led government will take shape courtesy the so-called ongoing Peoples’ Uprising.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]“The Maoists’ led Government will replace the current puppet government with the strength provided by the ongoing peoples’ uprising,” declared Dr. Bhattarai.
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[FONT=Verdana]Dr. Bhattarai who is the vice president of the Unified Maoist Party addressing a press gathering organized by the Jansanchar Abhiyan, August 10, 2009, declared that the ongoing protests were only the first phase of the series of protests programs the party was undertaking.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]“To restore Civilian Supremacy, a National Government will take shape soon in Singh Durbar by the thrust provided by the current protests”, he continued[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]Though Dr. Bhattarai was himself involved in secret parleys with Rakesh Sood-the de facto ruler of Nepal, he did not let the opportunity go, he said, the current puppet government executes decisions after receiving diktats from the Aakasbani (ethereal medium).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]“If the current puppet government resorts to repression in the manner similar to the Royal Regime, their fate will be akin to former king Gyanendra Shah”, Bhattarai thundered.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]“The leader of the puppet government Madhav Kumar Nepal has no right to sign a Treaty or an agreement in his forthcoming visit to India” Bhattarai said adding the unconstitutional government can not make any agreement that goes against the will of the people.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]Some even claim that Dr. Bhattarai’s loud cry against the incumbent government has increased after he met with Ambassador Sood August 5, 2009.
http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=6017
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N3wday dismissed the rubbish about the PLA being disarmed. This recnt media report shows that after all this time, the Maoists still haven't returned the land they took from feudalists and distributed amongst the people.
Properties of 30,000 families still under Maoist control
Even after three years of joining the mainstream politics by renouncing war, the Unified CPN (Maoist) has not returned properties of about 30,000 families in 72 districts, a parliamentary committee formed to monitor the implementation of Maoist commitments has concluded.
The tenure of the committee itself has ended on July 22. The committee had published public notices seeking information on confiscation of property. It received thousands of applications in the District Administration Offices of 72 districts, according to the committee. No applications were received in Manang, Mustang and Dolpa.
The Maoists have only returned properties belonging to Rastriya Janashakti Party chairman Surya Bahadur Thapa, UML leader Amrit Kumar Bohara and former Chief of Amry Staff Sachit Shumsher Rana.
Nepali Congress headquarter has informed the committee that properties of 28000 families including 2253 NC cadres, mostly in the mid-western and far-western Terai districts, is still under the control of Maoists.
Nepali Congress, which had been raising the issue of returning the seized properties vehemently when it was in opposition, has not been pro-active to expedite the process after it joined the government.
The Maoists have been doing communal farming in the seized lands in various districts. nepalnews.com
http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index....t-control.html
Pictures of Prachanda at Woolwich London 10th August 2009 text of English Speech
Prachanda speech at Woolwich Town Hall, London transcribed by KASAMA
August 10, 2009
We are completely aware, we are fully aware that we have a very big responsibility and we have real historical opportunity and challenge right now we are facing. And we understand the concern of our fraternal comrades in other parties and institutions, that they are very much concerned about the future of the Nepalese revolution.
Either it will go ahead in a very creative and a very scientific way, or it will deviate from (inaudible) fundamental theory and fundamental ideology. I am very clear in my mind that we will not deviate because we are trying our best to apply this theory according the conditions of 21st century.
We understand the whole dynamics of 21st century, and we in Nepal, together have leading a very special, very specific type of revolution. Although there are so many ups and downs, and twists and turns in the process necessarily, but ultimately we are trying to lead this revolution according to the changed condition.
And we derived, I think when we were in the war, (inaudible) just after 5 years of the initiation of people’s war, we tried to understand the whole lesson of 20th century, all the revolution and counter-revolution, all the positive and negative lesson of the revolution. And we came to a new understanding. We came to a new conclusion that, we had to develop some new strategy and tactics we cannot copy the insurrectionist strategy of Lenin, and mechanically we cannot copy the whole theory of protracted people’s war according to our conditions.
Therefore, we tried to develop something new, and we tried to something new although in fundamental sense, in basic sense.
We are clear that we fighting against feudalism and imperialism, and we are leading the New Democratic revolution. We have not any kinds of doubt in these basic questions.
But to lead this revolution, we should have to develop some new strategy and new tactics according to the (inaudible) situation, therefore we developed this competitive politics, you know?
We developed some new kinds of military strategy at that time, and we with the fusion of this protracted people’s war and insurrectionist tactics. We tried to create something new,a series of tactics.
At that time we said we would have to demand for the election of the constituent assembly just after 5 years of the people’s war. We developed this series of tactics.: (Inaudble), constituent assembly, republican state, and overall restructure of the state. And (inaudible), just after the synthesis of our ideology and the series of ideas, we departed on the Prachanda Path according to the concrete path of the Nepalese revolution.
We never advocated that this is the path for all the proletariat all over the world.
What demanded at that time, and what we concluded that we should have to develop some series of ideas, and this idea led us for the peace negotiation and the struggle on different fronts. And we derived that revolution cannot be repeated, it can only developed.
One method problem with the communist movement: We try to mechanically follow the strategy and tactics of the Russian revolution or Chinese revolution.
But a revolution cannot be repeated, it can only be developed.
Paris commune could not be repeated in October socialist revolution of Russia, it can only be developed. If Lenin had not been able to develop this ideology to the level of Leninism, Russian revolution could not succeed. In the same way, if Mao Tse-tung would not been able to develop this ideology to the level of Mao Tse-tung Thought first and Maoism in the second period, mainly during the period of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese revolution could not succeed.
Therefore, we communists in Nepal, we understand our responsibility, our proletarian duty. We have not deviated from our fundamental duty, but we are trying our best to develop this ideology, to develop some new strategy and tactics according to the situation, and we are fully confident that we will lead the revolution to success.
And we want to contribute something new, per the new (inaudible), per the whole communist movement and all the revolutions.
We are fully aware of this duty of the proletarian internationalists.
Therefore I want to issue you, let us come to the debate, let us come in a very creative interaction, because the Nepalese revolution has created something new!
Maybe there are some sort of comments, maybe there are some negative lessons, maybe there are.
But in an overall sense, we think that we are trying to develop our ideology according to the situations of the 21st century because we are fully confident that the 21st century will be the century of the world revolution. We are trying our best to contribute to this revolution from this small country.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Posted by nickglais at 1:34 PM
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New Nepal Kings creating troubles for Maoists: Dr. Bhattarai
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[FONT=Verdana]”The Kings of New Nepal sans Crowns have indeed troubled the Maoists’ Party of late”.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai, the Unified Maoists’ Party vice chairman on Thursday August 13, 2009, said that with his party undertaking the decade long revolt and the final 19 days long Peoples’ Uprising having successfully ousted the King with Crown, and with the country declared Republic, May 28, 2009, there have been the unwarranted births of New Kings without Crowns.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Though Dr. Bhattarai did not made public the very good names of the New Kings of Nepal, he said that the achievements of the Peoples’ Uprising-II have been overshadowed and that a final thrust could only get rid the newly born kings of Nepal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Dr. Bhattarai was addressing a program organized by Engineers Association in Kathmandu.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“The current uprising will guarantee Civilian Supremacy and National Pride which will topple the current puppet government only to be replaced by a National Government”.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]This does mean that of late Nepal has several Kings. But is he the next prime Minister? [/FONT]
2009-08-14 09:04:55
Two recent and unposted articles from southasiarev.
The article can be found here.Nepal: Replacing Army Commander, Hoping to Pacify the People
Kathmandu, 10 August, (Asiantribune.com): Nepal government has appointed Lt. Gen. Chhatra Man Singh Gurung as an acting chief of Nepal Army as the incumbent army chief Rookmangud Katawal is taking a customary leave one month before his retirement. A cabinet meeting held on Sunday took a decision to this effect.
Gurung, 57, will officially head state army after Katawal’s three-year tenure expires on September 9. This is the first instance of a person belonging to ethnic community heading the national army with 92,000 plus strong force so far.
Traditionally, the army chief would come from the families close to erstwhile Royal Place. Only the ruling Shah, Rana and Thapa have been appointed as the army chief in its entire history of some 250 years.
Started his army career in 1971 after completing Bachelor level education from Tribhuvan University, Gurung has had an untainted career as an apolitical officer within the army. Gurung has received training from the Indian Military Academy, Deharadun and has also completed military courses from US Army Command and General Staff College and National Defense University of China.
The retirement of incumbent army chief Katawal will bring the curtain down on the career of the most controversial army chief so far in Nepal.
Katawal was dragged into controversy as he vehemently opposed idea of former rebel party, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), to integrate their combatants into the army, arguing that the integration of ‘politically indoctrinated’ guerillas will spoil the institution of army.
The erstwhile Maoist-led government was forced to step down from the government on May 4 after President Dr Ram Baran Yadav blocked their decision to sack him. The Maoists are still staging protest against the president’s move both in the House and in the streets.
The article can be found here.Nepal: A Third People’s Uprising Ahead?
Maoists: govt will face ’serious consequences’ for refusing to address ‘civilian supremacy’ issue
Unified CPN (Maoist) Vice-Chairman Narayan Kazi Shrestha has said that the government should now be prepared to face the ‘grave consequences’ of the month-long nationwide agitation Maoists are waging to restore ‘civilian supremacy’ and national sovereignty.
Speaking at a press meet organized by Tamuwan State Council in Pokhara Monday, Shrestha, who is also the deputy parliamentary party leader of the UCPN (Maoist), said that the Maoists have also started the protest movement to exert pressure (on the government) for integration of former Maoist combatants into Nepal Army, timely drafting of constitution and taking the ongoing peace process to its desired conclusion.
He also hinted that the Maoist agitation might be the beginning of the ‘third People’s movement ‘, if the aforementioned demands are not met.
The second people’s movement waged by various political parties including ruling CPN-UML, Nepali Congress and Maoists had toppled the royal regime in 2006.
He blasted at the ‘reactionary forces’, the usual Maoist punch bag, “for trying to impose traditional parliamentary system in the country against the people’s wishes, wanting foreign intervention to continue, not wanting to see integration of Maoist combatants into NA and favouring military supremacy over civilian supremacy”.
“While continuing our agitation against all this, we would also keep the doors for consensus and cooperation open,” he said.
Shrestha said Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s statement that the government will suppress the Maoist agitation if it threatens to turn into a ‘people’s revolt’ is very careless and will only push the country towards more confrontation.
He again reiterated that the Maoists will under no circumstances join the ‘puppet government’ led by UML.
The Maoist party had announced stir from Friday with the expiry of the four-day ultimatum to the government to address the contentious issues of ‘civilian supremacy’, including what it called ‘unconstitutional move’ of the President vis-à-vis the Army chief row.
The main opposition party had staged demonstrations in different parts of the country Sunday as part of its month-long protest movement.
In Kathmandu, Maoist leaders and cadres took out demonstration rallies. Similar demonstrations were organised outside the capital. There were no reports of violence or arrests during the largely peaceful Maoist demonstrations. nepalnews.com
The article can be found here.Prachanda flies to Belarus after promising world revolution
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Nepal’s former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has left for Belarus after telling supporters in London his Maoist party in Nepal is certain to usher in “world revolution”.
“The twenty-first century will be the century of world revolution,” Prachanda told a large gathering of supporters at a meeting in south-east London.
“We in Nepal are trying to develop new strategies and tactics. We cannot mechanically repeat the strategies and practices of the Russian and Chinese revolutions.
“We are confident that we will lead the (Nepali) revolution to success,” he declared at the meeting organised by the Nepali Samaj - a sister organisation of the opposition Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), of which Prachanda is chairman.
At one point during the meeting at Woolwich town hall Monday, Prachanda told a questioner about the “ongoing struggle in eastern India against a series of mining multinationals in the tribal areas”, and said NGOs and INGOs (international non-government organisations) “confuse the masses”.
Prachanda, who was in Britain on a private visit left Wednesday for Belarus, a major European outpost of Communism, from where he will travel to Russia before returning to Kathmandu, Nepali Samaj coordinator Rana Bahadur KC told IANS.
However, the reason for Prachanda’s visit to the British capital remained unclear.
Before leaving Nepal, the Maoist leader denied newspaper reports that he wanted to attend a meeting of an umbrella of international Maoist movements and assume its leadership.
Although one Nepali source in London insisted “he came for some purpose”, Rana Bahadur KC said Prachanda wanted to interact with his supporters in Britain.
“He wanted to meet the cadres and give us some ‘prashikshan’ (education), including a briefing on the situation in Nepal and what happened in the last party meeting,” Rana Bahadur KC said.
The article can be found here.Maoists warn of mass agitation in Nepal
Kathmandu: Ahead of Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's visit to India, Maoists on Saturday warned of a mass agitation if any agreement on the Pancheshwor hydropower project is reached with New Delhi during the trip.
Senior Maoist leader C P Gajurel said the Pancheshwor Project is a part of the Mahakali Integrated Treaty, signed in 1996 between the then Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Indian counterpart P V Narasimha Rao in 1996, "which is a treacherous treaty".
"The Mahakali Treaty needs to be reviewed. If Prime Minister Nepal reaches any agreement with India to forward the Pancheshwor it will fuel our party's ongoing agitation," he said.
Maoists have launched a month-long agitation to uphold "civilian supremacy" and to "rectify" the President's move to reinstate Army chief.
"Instead of discussing extradition treaty, which is not Nepal's priority, we should take up the issue of resolving Bhutanese refugees with India. The issue of 120,000 Bhutanese refugees residing in eastern Nepal nearly for two decides is a burning issue, not the extradition treaty," he said.
Addressing a function, Gajurel said the government should not reach any agreement to import arms from India. "If the government decides to acquire arms from India, at this point the peace process may be derailed," he said.
"This will be the violation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to import arms from India at a time when we are engaged in building peace in the country," he said.
Gajurel also asked Prime Minister Nepal not to sign any agreement regarding boundary map, saying India side has encroached border at 58 points.
Speaking at the programme, Nepali Congress leader Prakash Sharan Mahat said Pancheshwor Project is in the interests of Nepal.
"India has adopted most flexible attitude towards the Pancheshwor Project in terms cost sharing, constructing dam, water rights and opening office of the project in Nepalese side, so we should not lose this opportunity," he said.
"There are certain groups in India, which are launching campaigning against the Pancheshwor saying that it is more at the interest of Nepal than India and the Maoists might have been influenced by them," he said.
He said Nepal government is not going to import arms from India.
This should def be a Sticky. Its of infinitely more interest and importance that whats going on in Iran.
Seconded. This might just be one small country, but once it begins, it can't be stopped.
I'll stick this on the condition that posts should not be one-line celebrations of the most recent news from Nepal, and nor should they be simplistic denunciations of Maoism - either post a news article or make a sensible contribution. Of course, me stickying this should not discourage people from starting other threads on Nepal including the re-posting of individual articles as separate threads.
Stickied.
PS - you Maoists had better thank me =P
OMG BK is like so teh awsumz!!!!
Cher mate.
Nepal Maoist CA member claims PLA on High Alert, revolt imminent
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[FONT=Verdana]“Revolt is not for pleasure however, the situation is such that we are forced to take on to the path for yet another revolt”.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Kula Prasad K.C. alias Sonam, the Unified Maoists Central Committee member and the YCL Central in charge, made this grand disclosure while addressing a program in Tamghas of Gulmi district and stated that the Maoists’ Peoples’ Liberation Army was kept on high alert.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Mr. K.C. was inaugurating the YCL Gulmi First District Convention wherein he made this tantalizing disclosure.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]He also told the Maoists’ cadres that the Party was preparing for revolt and that the new revolt will ensure rights of the people that is long overdue.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“The YCL should play a decisive role in the next revolt”, he added further.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Speaking on the occasion, the Unified Maoists Constituent Assembly member Mr. Chandra Bahadur Thapa urged his party cadres to attack the UML and the Nepali Congress cadres will full force.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“If they say that the Maoists are no of use then I urge you all to pounce upon them immediately”, he added[/FONT]
2009-08-18 08:57:39
http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=6071
I met V.I. Lenin in Moscow: Nepal Maoist Chief Prachanda
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[FONT=Verdana]The Chairman of the Nepal Communist Party- Unified Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda has pointed out that the five day trip of Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to New Delhi will turn out to be a disgraceful event for Nepal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Completing a week long pleasure trip to Europe, talking to journalists at the Tribhuwan International Airport, August 18, 2009, the former Prime Minister of the country commenting on the goodwill trip of the PM to India said that the trip will be a disgraceful and pathetic drama ultimately for the Nepali nation and its people.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]He also said that the Foreign Minister’s last minute cancellation of her trip to India accompanying the prime ministerial delegation was also a shameful event for the country on the diplomatic plane.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“Foreign Minister’s presence at the official trip was mandatory however her (Sujata Koirala) absence reveals the intensified feud among the government coalition partners”, Dahal speculated.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“The event is a proof of the fact that this government has no peoples’ mandate”, he declared.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]The former rebel leader had participated in a cadre training program in London and rumor had it that he had participated in the meeting of the Revolutionary Left Wing- the global body for revolutionary communists.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]After the London event Dahal along with his consort Sita and son Prakash had left for Moscow, Russia.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“I met Lenin in Moscow”, said Dahal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“I was shown his body in a huge screen”, Prachanda said.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“A lot of people visit the Lenin mausoleum”, said an energized Dahal, “I was also informed that people visit the mausoleum in great numbers which continues to increase each year.”[/FONT]
2009-08-19 08:55:12
http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_d...b068f5c3761609
Opinion: Mohan Vaidya Kiran, Unified Maoist Nepal
Mohan Vaidya Pokhrel-Kiran
Senior Maoist Ideologue, Nepal
[FONT=Verdana]What are the conclusions of the freshly concluded Central Committee meeting? Could you throw some light on that?[/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Comrade Kiran:[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] We are now a part of the ongoing peace process. Our prime objectives are the conclusion of the peace process with a positive note, to successfully accomplish the task of PLA-Nepal Army merger and drafting of the constitution on time. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]In the process of accomplishing the tasks mentioned above, freshly our central committee meeting has decided to expose the moves of the reactionaries who are conspiring to derail the peace process and hinder the constitution drafting process. We will strongly come forward in our struggle to achieve the objectives above and in the process foil the conspiracies of the reactionaries.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Similarly, our Central Committee has passed the resolution to find remedies of our internal fallacies, to strengthen our grass root foundation and establish the Maoist party of Nepal as one of the strongest communist party in the country.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana] In order to accomplish the tasks above we are holding our Party General Assembly after six months (Magh-2066-January-February 2009).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Also, we amply discussed our working style and our day to day activities. We have passed 15 Points Code of Conduct to rectify our internal weaknesses and fallacies. Issues such as fiscal transparency in the party, corruption and involvement in illegal trade…such issues were also discussed at the CC meeting.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]And, we have decided to take on the task to declare Ethnic or Regional Federal States, establish local state organs, and to achieve these targets we will bring in nationalists, republicans and forward-looking sections within the party, in the main leadership. We have also decided to wage another round of struggle for the complete freedom of the country.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]What say you of the fresh remark of the party Chairman Dahal made in the context of growing differences in between the US, India and China and the threat of war in Asia and the ever increasing foreign interference in Nepal? [/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Comrade Kiran: [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Look, Comrade Dahal made those remarks while analyzing the present political situation of the country and the possibility of conspiracies being hatched by the foreign power centers in Nepal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]What he meant to say was the countrymen need to remain on high alert against the foreign conspiracies. The media had unnecessarily distorted his more or less straight remarks. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Comrade Dahal has already refuted the media report though a press statement.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]How badly will the prolonged transitional period impact the peace process?[/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Comrade Kiran:[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] In fact, the prolongation of the transitional period has already threatened independence of the country. There have cropped up problems in the Republication order itself. In this context our Central Committee has been successful to take decisions in favor of institutionalizing the republican order and unite the entire party foundations. Unity can only solve the impending crisis.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]At a time when your party is favoring Ethnic and Regional Federal Model, the Nepali Congress President Girija Koirala has stood against the proposition? And in the mean time former King Gyanendra through national and international media has expressed resentment against the current disorder? What say you?[/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Comrade Kiran:[/FONT][FONT=Verdana] Such comments are not uncommon as they are being made from the fascist and dictatorial quarters. Peoples’ revolt is not complete until complete national, ethnic, gender and regional freedom is achieved. such comments are against the current Lokatantrik order. [/FONT]
2009-08-19 06:31:07
http://www.telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=6078
Maoists' may form parallel government in Kathmandu
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[FONT=Verdana]The Unified Maoists’ Party Led ‘United Revolutionary Front’ (URF) has vowed to further intensify its sadan and sadak (Street and parliament) centric protests aimed at restoring civilian supremacy and also form a parallel government.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Currently, Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai, the Maoists’ Party vice president is heading the 175 member Revolutionary Front.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]The Maoists party on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, formed a Sub-committee ‘Samyukta Rastriya Janaandolan Nepal’ to carry out its objectives. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Addressing the first convention of the said committee, said the Unified Maoist Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal that the Front has set the objectives among others as restoring Civilian Supremacy, pressurize the president to reverse his earlier unconstitutional moves and holding discussions at the CA over the Resolution proposal submitted by the Maoists.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Dahal urged all nationalists, republicans and communist to join the front. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“If our demands are addressed properly, we will head towards the formation of a national government else we will be forming an alternative parallel government”, said Gun Raj Lohani, a member of the committee.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Lohani making a threatening statement added, “In case our demands are not met with on time, we will on our own constitute the local bodies, establish sovereign federal states and at the center form a parallel government.”
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Further on how the Maoists have not returned seized land to it's feudalist former occupiers, and instead reserve it for the use of the people.
Seized land yet to be returned
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GANESH CHAUDHARY TIKAPUR, Aug 20 - [FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Supporters of the UCPN (Maoist) are yet to return to the rightful owners the land and houses they seized in Kailali district during the decade-long insurgency, despite the Maoist leadership's oft-repeated commitment to the handover of the captured assets. [/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Statistics of the District Administration Office, Kailali, show that Maoist activists captured land and houses of 430 individuals in the district during the insurgency. [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Poor people and families of Maoist fighters killed during the insurgency have been making use of the assets. [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]The rightful owners say they have not been able to get back their land and houses because of district-level Maoist leaders. [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]An activists of the UCPN (Maoist) claims cadres are not defying the leadership's directives. "Poor families and kin of martyrs have been using the land and houses. The party leadership must offer the present occupants an alternative."[/FONT]
Posted on: 2009-08-19 23:27:01 (Server Time)
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=210449
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Maoists make public UNPM Declaration
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Kantipur Report KATHMANDU, Aug 20 - [FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]The UCPN-Maoist on Thursday made public the Declaration of United National People's Movement (UNPM)—the newly formed party front to launch its fresh struggle programmes. The four-point declaration has demanded that the decisions made by the parallel people's power centers established during the people's war—the decade-long civil bloody war—should be given legitimacy. The UNPM was formed on August 3 under the leadership of Maoist Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai to lead the series of protests announced by the party earlier this month. As per the declaration, the recently formed Revolutionary Joint Front will work for the power as demanded by the situation though it will be the medium of struggle. The main opposition party, which dislodged from the government under its leadership after the president intervened into its attempt to sack the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS), has also demanded for the formation of a joint national government under its leadership by dissolving the current government at the earliest. In the declaration made public through the personnel website of leader Baburam Bhattari, the chairman of UNPM, the Maoists have laid out various demands, among others, rubbish the President's move over CoAS row and guarantee the civilian supremacy by keeping the Nepal Army completely under the government elected through people's mandate. Likewise, the Maoists have called for deploying both the armies—Nepal Army (NA) and Maoist People's Liberation Army (PLA)—in the development works and public service until the completion of integration process. It has also urged the government to provide all kinds of services and perks to the PLA men on a par with the NA personnel.
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=210562
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Peoples’ Republic & State Capture, our agenda: Nepal Maoist Chief
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[FONT=Verdana]The Chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda has made it clear that the main agenda of the party of the ex-rebels was to establish a Peoples’ Republican Order and the State Capture.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“Our priorities set at time of the revolt remains still intact, we have not retracted from our earlier objectives”, declared Prachanda.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Mr. Dahal was addressing a Maoists’ Party gathering in Dharan, Sunsari District, Thursday August 20, 2009.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“Peoples’ Liberation Army is the major force of the Maoists’ Party, the Party cadres should play significant role to further strength this indomitable force”, he declared.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“Our final objectives are to establish the peoples’ republican order and to capture the state”, he said adding, “I urge you all to keep these objectives in your mind and bring about a hurricane through the ongoing peoples’ uprising.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“The major challenge before us to reach the objectives as mentioned are to defeat a faction of the UML (Oli) and the Nepali Congress”, he categorically said.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]“Very soon we will grab power”, he said adding “There is no alternative to the Maoists’ led government in Nepal.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]The Maoists party vice president Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai, Senior vice chairman Mohan Baidya Kiran, General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa alias Badal and Secretary C. P. Gajurel were also present at the program.[/FONT]
2009-08-21 08:51:08
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Maoist Chief Whip talks about state capturing
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Kantipur Report KATHMANDU, Aug 22 - [FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]A senior Maoist leader has threatened of capturing the state power if the national unity government under his party’s leadership is not formed. Chief Whip of the Unified CPN (Maoist) Post Bahadur Bogati on Saturday said that the Maoists take over the state power through “third people people's movement” if a national unity government under Maoist leadership is thwarted. He was speaking at a programme in the capital. Saying other parties earlier spread the rumour about his party preparing to capture the state, Bogati stated the 'state capture', however, could happen now. He accused other parties of conspiring to ostracise the Maoists. He went on to claim that there is no alternative to the Maoist-led unity government for the logical conclusion of peace process. The Maoist chief whip clarified that the struggle programme his party has launched aims at the logical conclusion of peace process, timely statute drafting and institutionlisation of federal democratic republic, rather than getting to the government. [/FONT]
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Maoists want end to monopoly in media POST B BASNET
KATHMANDU, Aug 21: Maoists have warned they would struggle to end the "monopoly of state and some big households in the media” and enhance the access of commoners to this sector.
The Maoists made public their media policy through the manifesto of the Joint Mass Movement Nepal (JMMN), which is a Maoist front formed to launch an agitation in the streets and in the parliament for "civilian supremacy" and a Maoist-led national unity government.
The manifesto, made public on Thursday, also states that foreign investment in media sector should be ended, and the rights of the professional journalists protected. The JMMN, led by Maoist vice president Dr Baburam Bhattarai, had formed a 144-member central committee on Wednesday.
The state should be restructured on the basis of right to self determination of the oppressed ethnic groups and regions, the manifesto states. It has also demanded that the government legitimize the "institutionalized decisions" taken by Maoist-run parallel government during the insurgency.
The manifesto states that the JMMN would drive the country towards socialism and communism. The JMMN will attempt to develop a political system to institutionalize multi-party political competitiveness and ensure revolutionary proletariat leadership under a socialist system.
Putting forward a 45-point charter of demand, the manifesto also demands that all security agencies be restructured and the Nepal Army personnel and Maoist combatants be deployed for development works prior to their integration.
According to the manifesto, the local bodies should be formed on the basis of votes the political parties had garnered during the Constituent Assembly elections. Besides, the party has also demanded an effective regulation of the growing network of NGOs and INGOs in the country.
http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/in...s&news_id=8854
PLA combatants arrested with weapons
The Armed Police Force (APF) has arrested nearly two dozen People's Liberation Army (PLA) combatants along with significant amount of weapons from Jeetpur of Kapilvastu district on Monday.
The Maoist combatants - reports say around 22 in number - were heading to east, probably to Butwal or Nawalparasi from Bhalubang of Dang when they were intercepted by APF personnel at a checking point.
A number of modern weapons including M-16 and INSAS rifles and few pistols were found in the possession of the former rebels, police later said.
The APF also took control of four vehicles the PLA personnel were traveling by.
Surya Bahadur Gharti, the Brigade Commander of the PLA's Ranibagiya temporary cantonment in Rupandehi, however, managed to avoid arrest as he fled the scene in another vehicle.
The peace treaty signed between the Girija Prasad Koirala led interim government and the erstwhile CPN (Maoist) bars PLA combatants from venturing out of their cantonments with weapons.
The arrested PLA combatants are currently being held at the District Police Office, Kapilvastu.
It was not immediately know for what purpose the PLA combatants were traveling in such a significant number.
An all-party meeting is underway at the District Administration Office to discuss the situation.
No details of the incident, including the cantonment the arrested PLA combatants belonged to, have been disclosed yet. Nepalnews.com
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