By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
It’s becoming clear that Maoists are focusing themselves in the politics of pressure and their recent activities are alarmingly contradictory. On the one hand, they never stop talking peace and saying feudal and monarchical forces are active in derailing the peace process and on the other hand they state protest programs in front of the army and bring their guerillas (in their words injured and incapacitated) in the capital city and hold public meetings. It seems that they are just trying to exert as much pressure as possible to the government. Yes, this government of Girija Prasad Koirala, who is hell bent on saving monarchy, definitely needs pressure but the way Maoists are exercising is not right. It will only harm the peace process. I have heard Maoists leaders publicly accepting that their cadres have violated the code of conduct. “Yes, there are some cases [of violations] on our part,” said Dev Gurung, a Maoist negotiator recently. “But they are nothing compared to the violations from the state side. Ours are on small scale and the state is ignoring the code of conduct on political level.” Violation must not be measured in scale and there should not be any excuse for this. Continue reading
