They aren’t killing people because they have officially declared ceasefire for three months. But Maoist comrades aren’t keeping quite, at least according to the Royal Nepal Army. RNA was fighting with the Maoists until last month’s popular movement forced autocratic king to give up the power to people. Now both sides are observing ceasefire but it has been widely believed that rebels are doing unfair activities like extorting money, kidnapping unarmed people and looting.
Here in this blog, UWB presents a digitized avatar of a copy of today’s press release issued by the RNA. The only difference between this release and the ones that RNA used to issued before the April Revolution is that the word ‘terrorists’ have been replaced by ‘Maoists’. Also another missing element is the point that talked about how many people were killed in a clash.
For those who find it difficult to read the text (in Nepal) here is a quick translation:
Maoists forcefully extort money from general public: On 6 May, Maoists took control of different vehicles in Kabeli, an area between Panchthar and Taplejung districts in eastern Nepal, and took Rs. two thousands to five thousands from each person. They also took Rs. one thousand from each cab that were taking people to Pathivara temple, a famous religions site.
On 5 May, Maoists extorted money from general citizens in Kyamin, Bar Bhanjyang, Swatimara, Manpang, Syangha Pokhari Bhangyang and Bhirkkot area of Tanahun district. They also demanded money (equal to the salar and other benefits of 80 days) from local teachers.
Maoists Beat General Public: On May 8, Maoists abducted Dwarika Yadab, Dhappan Lon and Hari Yadav of Lwani area (Kapilbastu district) and attacked them with sharp knives etc. Dhappan Lon is undergoing treatment in Toulihawa hospital.
Lootings by Maoists: On May 8, Maoists looted food, clothes and cooking equipments from Jeevan Ram Bista, the Chairman of the Lamjung District Development Committee and locked his home.
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138 responses to “Meanwhile Maoist Comrades Continue Extortion, Looting and Beating”
Those “DUPLICATE MAOIST CRIMINALS”, have been here for years.. Those who claim to be Maoist and are reported to be so in the RISING NEPAL and maybe even on UWB ??.. Also renegade RNA who want more money ??..
Where is your proof that these are Maoist ??
And where is your PROOF THAT THE NEPALI CONGRESS, UNDER THE CORRUPT G.P. KOIRALA ISN’T AGAIN LEADING THE CORRUPTION/ROBBERY GAME ??
So what’s new?
Dinesh, Did the Bush Regime/CIA teach you anything about Journalism you did not know ?
I hope they loot VanDeVeer too!
Krat,
You tell us
Maybe we can use Kirat’s brain when he dies… NEVER BEEN USED
Why an armed revolution VandeVeer when the unarmed street protests achieved much more in three weeks than the guns that they had in ten years?
The Red Revolution Will Prevail.
Ha,ha VandeVeer you sure could use a brain transplant!
The only Reds I like are the ones who play football. You’ll Never Walk Alone!
This period in Nepal, doesn’t it feel surreal? Old discredited fogeys like Girija assuming the role of saviour, the nasty king sulking away and the violent maoists now staging street protests and dramas-and the general Nepali people carrying on like business as usual.
How long before everything erupts in violence again? Stuff India and China, get the UN stationed here quick!
Kirat, the street demonstrations were not “unarmed.” In fact, people resisted the security forces with all weapons at hand, from stones to slingshots. It was the specter of mass violence that led to the king partially capitulating. At that, it is doubtful that he would have done so were it not for the possibility of the Maoists merging their armed struggle with the people’s physical resistance.
KG, I saw the street protests. Yes it was often violent with stone throwing and beating up of policemen when possible. But it was definitely unarmed protests. I think only in the stoneage was carrying stones with the threat of hurling them at someone called ‘armed’.
I wonder on what the Maobadis are living of?
If they cannot loot or extort etc, who feeds them and gives them shelter?
Some organisations have to organize essential goods for them, these people still are armed and if treated like animals, they behave like.
I suggest they do infrastructural work like road construction, water supply etc and get paid by UN, ADB or other aid organisations
Laxmi, you think soldier ants will ever become worker ants? As long as they have power to lord it over others I don’t think so.
I am not pessimist but I would like to tell you the following:
Worst case Scenario:
If our leaders cannot put the RNA under the parliament and change the name of RNA to Nepali National Army in two or three days from now, Army may takover in support of the king. In that circumstances, all the political leaders will go hiding. The Army and the King rule for somtime with excessive force. Maoists and all young people of NC, UML et al will take up arms. At last, Maoists and parties will win the war and there will be a fullfledged Republic of Nepal. Do you think that might happen ? Anwesr in yes or no .
Hope not. I am an optimist. I think someone will finally have the balls to call in the UN to observe and maintain the ceasefire. Mr. Tamrat must be thinking about the possibility right now. Hope the UN has the balls to do the right thing too.
well Kirat, ants have no brain and the difference to mammals lies in the the front part of the brain where humans have a control room over its animal instincts.
In some of ours, this control doesn’t work proberly sometimes or at all, lets hope the leaders are not drugged.
Drugged on power. Must be quite a trip.
What proof do you have that the protests were “unarmed”? you only saw the sticks and stones. But the few Maoists I have met (in Dolakha district, and they were young women, no more than 16 or 17 packing guns) carried concealed weapons.I saw the “bulge” under a jacket one of them had tossed over her shoulder (she was in camouglauge fatigues) and asked point blank to see her weapon. She giggled and proudly uncovered it from beneath the jacket. Ok, so her “concealment” was pretty obious! but still, most would totally hide their weapons. And it is clear by now that many of the protestors were brought to Kathmandu by the Maoists. Had the King not restored parliament when he did, i am pretty sure those weapons would no longer be ‘concealed”.
As for the way the Maoists are behaving now, what did you expect? did you think they were going to go away without a fight? if so, you are fooling yourselves. Their fight will not be over until a “people’s republic” which in their terminology means totalitarian state with no monarchy (ceremonial or otherwise) is achieved. Prachanda has said it over and over. The US warned against it. And now it seems some of you who belittled those of us who even dared suggest this as being too “negative” are starting to wake up to reality. They are not over yet. The SPA was just stupid to have entered into an agrement with the Maoists, no matter what you think. They will rue the day they did so, as will the Nepali people.
shadow you are positively foaming in the mouth. Calm down. I distrust the Maoists too incase you did not know. We were talking about the street protest in Kathmandu by the way, not some fancy event in Dolakha.
From the way UWB’s tone has subtly changed to an anti-maoist stance, can we assume Mssrs. Kantipur Publications has received a polite request from the maoists for an x amount of rupees?
Michael Van Der Veer,
Do you want a Maoist takeover of Nepal?
Let me ask you all a question.
Suppose we have CA elections and the people vote the Maoists in power legitimately… what do you guys think of that?
You see people who are speculating these sanerios where the Maoists take over by force are watching too many Rambo movies! The Maoists are idiots – they know the reprecussions of taking over militarily… They know that India with the backing on the international community will definetly intervene and they they are screwed. Baburam and Prachanda are in contact with Indian leaders all the time – don’t you think they know they can’t just take over????
The question to ask is what happens if the Maoist come to power through legitimate means and want to establish a semi-communist republic – then what???
sorry i meant to say the Maoists aren’t idiots
Maoists are habituated to live like parasite on honest work of other people. What do you do with this undisciplined militia which just wants to exploit people so that they can eat meat and rice of the poor farmers?
The charges against Maoists are serious and the blood thirst comrades are happy to exploit ordinary folks in the name of doing good to them. Again, this seems like a propaganda of Royalist RNA officers who want to discredit the Maoists of their positive gestures.
Bravo comrades and militarymen! Keep on fighting, exploiting and dying. This is pathetic. These people are no more different than warlords in ethopia, somalia, rwanda, congo and all other war torn countries.
Maoists are habituated to live like paracite on honest work of other people. What do you do with this undisciplined militia which just wants to exploit people so that they can eat meat and rice of the poor farmers?
The charges against Maoists are serious and the blood thirst comrades are happy to exploit ordinary folks in the name of doing good to them. Again, this seems like a propaganda of Royalist RNA officers who want to discredit the Maoists of their positive gestures.
Bravo comrades and militarymen! Keep on fighting, exploiting and dyeing. This is pathetic. These people are no more different than warlords in ethopia, somalia, rwanda, congo and all other war torn countries.
P.S. : This time around I got censored by UWB. hmm, is there anything wrong with my comment?
Michael Van Der Veer seems to be highly influenced by North Korean guy & obviously Mr Castro.
Michael, I do not know whether you have disguised your identity in front of us however I really feel as if you are in favour of violance & dedicated supporter of the Maoist,who just does not see any outlet to this existing crises other then Maoist takeover.
As long as Nepal remains Democratic & peaceful nation, we general nepalese will be happy.
More wise thinking with open mind on the issue of Nepal would be better for all of us those who really cares about our country
This is utter shame on the maoist leadership for these activities sharply contradict what they have started quoting and preaching. Prachanda and Baburam must give statements on halting all these in spirit of respect for Nepalese in general and not make route for the King to take power from the people again.
Stupid UWB check the dates its not 8 APRIL we are one month ahead.
Democracy: For the People by the People
MB Actions?
Before: Extort as much as Money from hard working People by the People or slit the throats of People by People.
Now: Extort as much as Money from hard working People by the People or show Khukuris by People to slit the throats of People.
Maman,
I am in favor of Democracy.
I support the 12 Point Plan as agreed to by the SPA & CPN(M)… I do not think N.Korea has anything to do with the Mabadi in Nepal,nor does Cambadia, or Cuba have anything to do with Nepal.
Deal with the facts not uninformed fantasy .
Violance has come from all sides and International Organizations, espically the UN, has put much of the blame on the RNA and Police.
he Maoist in the 12-Point Plan agree to deal with their mistakes and correct them. Mistakes were made on all sides and history cannot be reversed..
DOES ANYONE ON THIS BLOG KNOW WHAT THE 12-POINT PLAN IS ? IF SO YOU SOUND AS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT HAS BEEN AGREED TO.. AND HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR FUTURE.
To ignore the FACT that Nepal is one of the poorest nations on earth and play as if the wealthy in Kathmandu are more than a minority is at your peril !! You represent the past, not the future. It must be scary ??
In a Democracy the MAJORITY OF NEPALIS WILL ENJOY MORE OF THE WEALTH OF THE NATION, not just the protected few who post to this Blog.
As you see each day, Parasite Ministers and Ambassadors appointed by this Duplicate King are loosing their privileges ..
They and their families have for too long RAPED-the-PEOPLE-OF-NEPAL ! They are the EXTORTERS !
The Government and many of the wealthy have been the Biggest Extorters. Ask any Hotel Worker,sweeper, Public Employee, or house servent WHO THE EXTORTERS ARE? The inbred Royals, soon to be in exile, are among the biggest EXTORTERS !
When the Pajaro crowd find they are no longer able to EXTORT, then Democracy will have come to Nepal..
Please have the intelligence and integrity to speak to the ideas, myself and others have posted, and not attack those who posted.
LOKTRANTRA !!
Well, Michael Van is neither a supporter of the Maoists nor the North Koreans or Cubans. He is just a stupid foreigner who thinks revolution is a hip thing to do. He likes to come to this blog and rant and rave about a revolution for the adrenaline rush he gets from it. Unlike us( or some of us), he is not bothered about the repurcussion of this “revolution”.
Seriously, Isn’t it possible to just block him??
abrial is probably a smart ass non resident nepali who thinks he knows it all because he went to a college in the US… he probably took a few classes here and there and now with his neo-liberal pesudo-intelectual abilities he thinks he is the man… i think we are better off blocking you.
xxx and Abrial:
Let’s keep this discussions to concrete arguments and debates instead of personal attacks. Let people come here and say what they wish – it is a blog afterall – Nepal’s policies aren’t going to change tomorrow as a result of what we say here..
Abiral,
Do you “block” everything you do not agree with ? How do you ever learn if you do not at least think about another point of view… Would you be into having tea or a beer and exchsanging ideas ?
With respect, Michael
4700632-Kathmandu
Bhundai Pundit,
You speak such an important truth.. Thank you !
I support Pundit’s point that maoists are not that stupid that they ever dream of taking this nation with military force.
They must be well aware of the fact that in this land politics and power days will be counted without support of India and US.
King despite his century old power base, average people’s strong faith on monarchy,
benefit of tradition and religion,
well-equipped military(better technically than maoists),political parties expectations and support of international community could not survive as it went against people and democracy.
Maoists on the other hand have less supporters, less sophisticated military, no support from international community and a barbaric image.
How long do u think that this force can exist without the support of people.
If they go against democracy and try to be autocratic, their peril is certain.
Maoists are strong enough only to serve as pressure force but not strong enough to take over.
People need not fear them so much magnifying their power.
Our geopolitical situation is not easy for anybody to become an autocratic totalitarian, and to be a communist one is perfectly impossible.
So I feel like laughing at some so called intellectual ones who fear Maoists totalitarian.
I think Maoists have to fear this matter more.
I think rationally we all fear the Maoists not as a force that will take over the country but as a force that will continually upset the peace and stability if this country. This is what they have been over the last ten years. They have some genuine issues about changes needed in the country but it is always overshadowed by their outdated communist theories and their readiness to indulge in violence. If they change for the better that’s great, otherwise strong arm tactics must be used against them to make them change for the better.
As long as they hold the gun we must all recognize them for what they have been-a threat to peace and stability in this country.
Excatly I don’t understand why people think the Maoist with 10000-15000 persons can take over militarily and rule Nepal??
Yes the question is if they come to power legitimately and want a have a very socalist/communist government then what to do…
Yeah, but if they keep their guns and keep disturbing the peace- that is a very serious problem too.
Look I really think the Maoists are serious and ready for a political solution. I mean Baburam and Prachanda don’t want to spend their entire lives in jungles… I am sure they are hungry for power and fame like anyone else. They know that a military take over is just not possible. So the only viable avenue is to join mainstream politics! Yes I agree we have to get the Maoist to completly disarm under a thrid party supervision and perhaps even move towards integrating the PLA and the RNA.
I still think there will a small faction of Maoists who may not accept a peaceful solution. However, this problem can be controled militarily through force.
Hopefully you are right. But I’d really hate to see the Maoists in power…listen to their speeches. Most of their plans and ideas for Nepal are so out of sync with the rest of the world. If they ever came power they would bring Nepal to economic ruin.
Kirat:
What happens if the people elect the Maoists to power through democratic elections?
Its kinda like how the US pushed for democratic elections in Palestine and when HAMAS came to power they didn’t accept it. So really they didn’t want democratic elections afterall.
In Nepal I see a similar situation.
Till yesterday, real power was with king(extreme janabirodhi sakti) and therefore addressing maoists and peace progress was hindered.
The government had no rational and moral ground to label them ‘terrorists’ since it had not made any effort to address them and their demand , contituent assembly which is a very genuine and democratic one.
But now power is with politicians , who are expected to be ‘sachchiyera ayeka’ politicians.
I hope they will surely take genuine steps towards peace and agreement.
Till yesterday in king’s regime, people felt it undemocratic even to pronounce ‘constituent assembly’ saying it will disturb our democracy and stability.
Maoists were labelled ‘terrorists’.
But now everybody have supported CA and welcomed maoists in multi-party democracy and respected them as legitimate political force.
yati huda hudai pani yadi maoists haru banduk nai bokna tayar chan vane virma ham falne goruharu uniharu nai hun.
Then bullets will be their destiny.
In that case I too support military actions against maoists.
i am sure such stupid fundamentalists and criminal minded insanes are outnumbered by rational people loving people even in maoists.
If maoists again choose violence when a secure road of democracy is there, i think there will be conflict and ‘fut’ among themselves.
I hope democracy lovers, peace lovers, nation lovers and people lovers will outnumber and win in maoists too and in whole nepal.
I request nepalese people to continuously support democracy and people’s sovereignty.
Those against these fundamentals will end to their doom themselves.
Punditji,
I guess if the Maoists win the popular vote, we will have to accept it. I just hope they don’t.
Hamas are a sad case. All intelligent Palestinians know that they are bad for the Palestinians. Once Hamas came to power a lot of countries expected a change in tact from them-but nothing substantial from them-they still refuse to acknowledge Israel. This is the exact sort of ideological impracticality about the Maoists that makes me fear them.
We need a Bismarck sort of leadership not a Mao Tse Tung/ Kim Il Jong type.
Only way to stop maoists to win government through legitimate means is:
Our politicians who consider themselves democratic ones need to act more responsible, rational and radical.
They should win support and confidence of people.
Majority of Nepali people have their faith on these SPA . If they utilize this chance to prove themselves as dedicated to nation and people, they should not much worry.
But if they again act as armor of monarch and be weak and ineffective, maoists have great potential to win.
Because till now, despite their violence maoits are successful to prove themselves as nationalits, devoted , radicalits and united and organised strong force.
So many people have chance to see them as messiah (as so many viewed king to be one).
kaile kahi, pirole ranthaneko manche chyanik aanandako lagi bees pani piuna tayar huncha.
Ball is in the court of politicians.
Maoist takeover is quite possible. After all, we have seen the King’s rule. Before that, one or another constituent of SPA were governing. The promises were made but never kept, and people were disenchanted. Only addressing political issues without addressing larger development issue [such as lack of employment, drinking water, electricity] does not help. At the end of the day, people have to feed their empty stomach. The two of these issues should go hand-in-hand. The Maoists are the only force who are not tested though their political role has been violent. And public memory is short.
I hope the SPA, in a zeal to show themselves true democrats, do not lose sight of the fact that people want to see some development issues addressed and some progress made in that area. If they fail, then the Maoist takeover is definitive possibility.