The Idiot's Guide to the Maoist Playbook
Media Communications Center
January 19, 2007
"Anyone with half a brain can do the math: Probability that Girija will die - certain. Probability that after his death, the Maoist DPM will take the post of Prime Minister - certain. Probability that the communist majority in the interim stature will do everything possible to ensure that a new Prime Minister is immediately put in place - highly unlikely. Probability that the Maoists (with their leftist front) will continue to consolidate their power-base, using state resources - absolutely certain..."
"Brutal suppression of political opposition for over a decade, using terror tactics and fear-enforced politics has yielded Nepal's Maoists a position that those who have employed democratic norms and principles their entire lives, have failed to attain...."
"Not surprisingly, those on the bandwagon who believed that the Maoists had had a change of heart in favor of multiparty politics remain in shock at the pace of political transformations in Nepal. That the Maoists are defining the mainstream (as opposed to joining it) may have finally occurred to the most intelligent of Nepal's intellectuals...."
"In hindsight, the rabid anti-monarchy activism (that Nepal's intellectuals displayed) as having facilitated the Maoists' strategy, is a realization many will find difficult to come to terms with. It will be even more difficult to admit (for some of Nepal's most conceited and elitist individuals), that yes, the king's act was foolish and their response, brainless."
FULL TEXT LOCATED AT:
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/01/idiots-guide-to-maoist-playbook.html
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/
"Brutal suppression of political opposition for over a decade, using terror tactics and fear-enforced politics has yielded Nepal's Maoists a position that those who have employed democratic norms and principles their entire lives, have failed to attain...."
"Not surprisingly, those on the bandwagon who believed that the Maoists had had a change of heart in favor of multiparty politics remain in shock at the pace of political transformations in Nepal. That the Maoists are defining the mainstream (as opposed to joining it) may have finally occurred to the most intelligent of Nepal's intellectuals...."
"In hindsight, the rabid anti-monarchy activism (that Nepal's intellectuals displayed) as having facilitated the Maoists' strategy, is a realization many will find difficult to come to terms with. It will be even more difficult to admit (for some of Nepal's most conceited and elitist individuals), that yes, the king's act was foolish and their response, brainless."
FULL TEXT LOCATED AT:
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/01/idiots-guide-to-maoist-playbook.html
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/
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