Maoists atrocities are continuing
Media Communications Center
January 03, 2007
By Dr Chandrakala
It's cold in the Terai, it's cold in Kathmandu and, of course, in the high hills. It is also cold in the PLA camps and among the squatters in the airport triangle. It is especially cold for old people and destitute.
Activities go on. TU employees demonstrated and got beaten up. They were clamouring for appointments of all the important officials in Universities as were the students. But as everybody knows the horse trading goes on and higher studies are being affected for the last eight months. Sometimes comparison to earlier times springs up in human minds.
Human Rights activists and Civic Society demonstrate and are rounded up. They have to try and whip up the waning enthusiasm for immediate adoption of a hotly debated interim constitution, interim HoR and interim government and act as a countervailing force to conventional wisdom. But people can see through. As the saying goes: 'you can fool all the people for some time, you can fool some people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time'.
Maoists attacked police post at Rajahar of Nawalparasi on December 29, burned the police post after forcing the policemen out only few hours after prime minister Koirala claimed to have reached agreement with Maoist leader Prachanda on restoration of displaced police posts across the country. Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Maoist spokesperson, denied the prime minister's claim.
However, prime minister Koirala reiterated that Maoists leaders Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai had agreed the restoring of police posts and VDC office across the country. He urged Maoists not to obstruct the restoring of police posts and VDC offices and warned that Maoists would be blamed if the Constituent Assembly elections cannot be held on time. The same note was repeated by his daughter.
The ping pong ball keeps on going back and forth.
A poor rhino was found dead in the Chitwan National Park on January 2. This is the 12th rhino killed by poachers in five months since August 2006. A team of forest workers who had gone to the site were forced by Maoists to return.
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All the rhinos translocated to Bardiya from Chitwan are all gone. What a shame! What a waste! All those years of conservation efforts going up in smoke.
Melamchi water supply project is to be suspended due to continuous pressure from the locals. The Kathmanduites have to suffer much longer before they get respite from water shortage.
No enthusiasm, life goes on listlessly, some people doing what they have to do and some people saying what they have to say. It is too cold.
Now, the prime minister has stood firm regarding the decision of appointing ambassadors. Let us congratulate Bhagirath Basnet, the 18th ambassador to the Court of St. James.
In the meanwhile Maoists atrocities are continuing:
They have issued death threats to Bal Bahadur Reule, chief of Tipokhari Community forest and Rameshwor Adhikari, headmaster of secondary school in Sallyan district.
They have warned concerned authorities not to restore police posts in Sankhuwasabha.
They padlocked Biratnagar sub-metropolis office on December 29.
They abducted over twenty-five students and teachers from Jankalyan Secondary School in Lamjung district on December 29 for participation in their function at Bhoteodar.
They have issued warning to all government and non-government organization in Bajura districts to take their permission prior undertaking development activities in villages.
On the other end, cadres of Jwala Singh led Jantantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM), a splinter group of Maoists, have also expedite their activities:
They burned a parking jeep in Lahan on December 22.
Abducted 70 years old Madhav Adhikari of Itahari, Sunsari from Saptari district on December 24.
Shot dead a civilian on Dec. 28 at Bhardaha of Saptari district along the Mahendra Highway.
Abducted Govinda Upreti of Sundarpur -9 of Sarlahi district on December 31.
Shot dead Krishna Neupane, CPN-UML cadre, in Sarlahi district on January 1.
In the end let us all hope and pray that as and when whatever elections take place, let there be a proper environment where Nepalese people can exercise their democratic rights freely and fairly.
It's cold in the Terai, it's cold in Kathmandu and, of course, in the high hills. It is also cold in the PLA camps and among the squatters in the airport triangle. It is especially cold for old people and destitute.
Activities go on. TU employees demonstrated and got beaten up. They were clamouring for appointments of all the important officials in Universities as were the students. But as everybody knows the horse trading goes on and higher studies are being affected for the last eight months. Sometimes comparison to earlier times springs up in human minds.
Human Rights activists and Civic Society demonstrate and are rounded up. They have to try and whip up the waning enthusiasm for immediate adoption of a hotly debated interim constitution, interim HoR and interim government and act as a countervailing force to conventional wisdom. But people can see through. As the saying goes: 'you can fool all the people for some time, you can fool some people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time'.
Maoists attacked police post at Rajahar of Nawalparasi on December 29, burned the police post after forcing the policemen out only few hours after prime minister Koirala claimed to have reached agreement with Maoist leader Prachanda on restoration of displaced police posts across the country. Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Maoist spokesperson, denied the prime minister's claim.
However, prime minister Koirala reiterated that Maoists leaders Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai had agreed the restoring of police posts and VDC office across the country. He urged Maoists not to obstruct the restoring of police posts and VDC offices and warned that Maoists would be blamed if the Constituent Assembly elections cannot be held on time. The same note was repeated by his daughter.
The ping pong ball keeps on going back and forth.
A poor rhino was found dead in the Chitwan National Park on January 2. This is the 12th rhino killed by poachers in five months since August 2006. A team of forest workers who had gone to the site were forced by Maoists to return.
2 –
All the rhinos translocated to Bardiya from Chitwan are all gone. What a shame! What a waste! All those years of conservation efforts going up in smoke.
Melamchi water supply project is to be suspended due to continuous pressure from the locals. The Kathmanduites have to suffer much longer before they get respite from water shortage.
No enthusiasm, life goes on listlessly, some people doing what they have to do and some people saying what they have to say. It is too cold.
Now, the prime minister has stood firm regarding the decision of appointing ambassadors. Let us congratulate Bhagirath Basnet, the 18th ambassador to the Court of St. James.
In the meanwhile Maoists atrocities are continuing:
They have issued death threats to Bal Bahadur Reule, chief of Tipokhari Community forest and Rameshwor Adhikari, headmaster of secondary school in Sallyan district.
They have warned concerned authorities not to restore police posts in Sankhuwasabha.
They padlocked Biratnagar sub-metropolis office on December 29.
They abducted over twenty-five students and teachers from Jankalyan Secondary School in Lamjung district on December 29 for participation in their function at Bhoteodar.
They have issued warning to all government and non-government organization in Bajura districts to take their permission prior undertaking development activities in villages.
On the other end, cadres of Jwala Singh led Jantantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM), a splinter group of Maoists, have also expedite their activities:
They burned a parking jeep in Lahan on December 22.
Abducted 70 years old Madhav Adhikari of Itahari, Sunsari from Saptari district on December 24.
Shot dead a civilian on Dec. 28 at Bhardaha of Saptari district along the Mahendra Highway.
Abducted Govinda Upreti of Sundarpur -9 of Sarlahi district on December 31.
Shot dead Krishna Neupane, CPN-UML cadre, in Sarlahi district on January 1.
In the end let us all hope and pray that as and when whatever elections take place, let there be a proper environment where Nepalese people can exercise their democratic rights freely and fairly.
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