Prachanda interview in eKantipur (if this link doesn’t work, please visit the ekantipur page).
In his first television interview to a Nepali channel, Prachanda, the Supreme leader of Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) talks sense and raises so many convincing issues that viewers (as far as a few dozen people I talked to while watching the interview being aired now on Kantipur TV taken by Sohan Shrestha). Yes, I am impressed. I think he is raising right issues. I believe that they really want peace and that they should be included in the interim government immediately. “We are ready to join the interim government and solve the problem peacefully,” Prachanda said. “But the Seven Party Alliance is trying give the impression that they alone did the historical April revolution. That revolution was done jointly by SPA, Maoists and the civil society.”
Prachanda said that first Maoists should be incorporated in the interim government and the country should talk about developments and bringing in help packages from abroad. “We are not against bringing in aid packages from India, we know we need the aid,” he said. “But that should be done by the government with our participation. I told [Prime Minister] Girija [Prasad] Koirala that this government shouldn’t decide on long term aid packages without first including us in the government. After we are included in the government, we can go to India and ask for what we need.”
Prachanda further said, “First political settlement then development. For that the speed of talks need to be intensified.”
Prachanda seems to be genuinely interested in solving the problem by first ensuring the Maoist participation in the decision making process. He also talked about the necessity of the election of constituent assembly, the international meditation (“no problem with any credible international agency that India and China feel comfortable with”) and arms management. (“We will not come out of certain area of Nepal as the process of election starts.”)
The SPA should create no problem whatsoever if Maoists really want to join the government and go for political settlement (election of constituent assembly). If Maoists are too eager to join the government, let them join. Why create problem and endanger the peace process. Prachanda said that he didn’t come to the last week’s Kathmandu gathering of the Maoist party as his party wasn’t too sure about the SPA’s intention of settling the political problem first.
“It is a political blunder that SPA is delaying our inclusion in the government by declaring things from Parliament. This is nothing more than trying to take fake credit of the historical movement. These leaders and parties were in the government in the 90s as well. Why didn’t they do these kinds of decisions in the parliament then? Now they are trying to bypass the Maoists from the political process and this is very dangerous for the peaceful settlement. Maoists need to be the part of the political process. Everything should be done with our participation.”– Prachanda
(blog posted by Wagle)
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101 responses to “Prachanda, Nepal's Rebel Leader, Talks Brilliance”
Like girija, prachandra is also open to accept aids from india. But he doesn’t say how his party or he will settle unfair treaties, indian army in Nepalese soil(Kalapani).
He was just too impressed with his janasens(prachandra ko sena). If it was Janasena then i would have been there.
That was a really fast post. The interview just ended 5 min ago. Good job Wagle. I didn’t understand a word of it so I hope some agency posts a transcript later.
Prachanda is confident but he is overconfident also.
He and his party continuously undermine the SPA and which might bring the end of MAOIST. Hence it may better for them to keep alliance between SPA rather then threatening them. Maoist doesn’t have power to change geographical positioning of Nepal neither have power to go completely against world.
Can we say that the overwhelming majority of Nepalese People want Peace at the moment? What prevents the various political parties, including the Maoists, from addressing this critical demand of the people? Whether it be the making of the HOR supreme, or the inclusion of the Maoists in an interime government, why should we always remain under the threat of eternal bloodshed? Can we conclude that all the political parties, including the Maoists, really want is power-sharing? Let them share all powers but bring in peace first.
Any chance of full text of interview being posted on UWBDP ?
got a chance to watch the interview of the maoist supremo. sohan doesn’t have a knack of a reporter. bhojraj bhatt was heard asking a few question but i don’t know why was he sidelined–he didn’t get a chance to show his face in the camera while sohan’s overwhelmed picture was shown repeatedly. bhatt was credited as a researcher. thats a general comment.
re: prachanda: i wasn’t impressed much though he was given full one hour free-ride to air his voices. he looked confident, perhaps because of the ruckies asking him plain questions.
the maoists as i understand are ready to come into competetive politics but want to dictate their terms. this however is the last chance for all of us nepalis if we’re to have a prosperous future.
ruckies should have been spelt rookies? forgot to spell, sala this computer made us (me!) so dumb.
or is it the gaja? jai sambho!
it would be absolutely ridiculous to include maoists in the interim government without first concluding the peace talks. the maoists are rebels and they can’t be both sides of the table in the talks. they’re not ready to make any concessions on their part. they won’t stop extorting money, they won’t scrap their so-called people’s government. then why should they expect the parliamnet to be dissolved? don’t they know that its the last remaining vestige of people power in nepal right now?
also, if prachanda is so genuinely interested in solving the problem then he should talk some sense into some of his people like agni sapkota. this agni sapkota says that the maoists can make nepal switzerland in ten years. this goes on to show that even the top brass of the maoists are unaware of the ground realities. they are ignorant of the destruction and dire situation their absolutely unnecessary war has put nepal into.
i don’t think the govt is trying to bypass the maoists. its only that the maoists are feeling insecure, they are feeling left out because all the recent changes in nepal have proved that all the bloodshed that the maoists have forced upon us was totally unnecessary. there are peaceful ways to achieve things which maoists couldn’t in a decade of terror and destruction. the govt is a govt, not a talks committee. the govt has to run a country besides talking to the maoists and we can’t let things stay the way they are. if we wait till the talks are over, time may just run out to pull the country out of the swamp all the misgovernence and voilence of decades has put our country into.
Dream on Prachanda and Baburam and even Madav Nepal…..
These communist, don’t they have brain? Madav Nepal’s dream of becoming Prime Minister three-four years ago with seven parties’ (or six?) support gave King Gyanendra reason to move on his roadmap. Madav Nepal and Sher Bd. are equally responsible for the suffering that Nepal has to undergo under the rules of Gyanendra.
Now Prachanda says that Girija Pd. should have included Maoist in his cabinet and only then gone to India. What these communists think, especially the Maoist, that India and USA are ready to accept them in power in Nepal? Are not the Maoist still “Terrorist” to USA and India? See the US policy in Palestine, when the Hammas won the election, they froze all types of aid there. As long as USA and India is providing financial aid and military hardware to Nepal, they (especially their anti-communist, conservative establishment) would never let any Communist come to power in Nepal.
I am surprise on people’s short term memory. It seems that they have forgotten what the USA did not do to contain the communist during the Cold War. They seem to forget that about 125,000 US citizens lost their lives in the Vietnam and Korea war trying to contain the communist. There is still millions of American alive who fought against the communist and hate them more than anything else. Out of these millions of anti-communist Americans, few hundreds are elected members of the Congress. Can you imagine these people letting a communist leader like Prachanda, whose past act resembles more to Pol Pot of Cambodia, come to power in Nepal? They would rather let the King take over the power again, increase the military and financial assistances 10 times (or 100 times) and go after the Maoist. This is exactly what happened when all the parties agreed to make Madav Nepal their prime minister and Nepal went to durbar with that “Nibedan”. Madav Nepal, who claims he is communist in name alone, is not tolerable to these people and you think Prachanda would be? Dream on.
Also, do you think Indian establishments, even with strong communist presence in the parliament, would forget the presence of China in their border and their humiliating defeat in the hands of communist China in 1962? Dream on Prachanda.
Prachanda and Baburam seem to know what lies ahead for them if they continue their guerilla war and they are desperately trying to avoid it.
Dream on….
I think prachanda should be eliminated ,,,they also just want power,,,power hungry dogs!!
so, is there any way i can see the video for the program.. anywhere on google? youtube?
Contd. from above….
Prachanda and Baburam seem to know what lies ahead for them if they continue their guerilla war and they are desperately trying to avoid it. Prachanda’s latest interview shows how desperate the Maoists are. It seems they were also planning, as the seven party alliances did, to use the Jan Andolan II mandate for many purposes, one of them for their safe landing. Their strategy, it seems, was to get involved in the present cabinet as soon as possible and get the default legitimacy that comes to the political actors after a monumental political events such as a revolution, in our case Jan Andolan II, and use that legitimacy for safe landing.
Imagine such a scenario, imagine that Maosist were in present cabinet. Would India and even USA say anything against a party that is a member in Nepal government? It would be against the political and diplomatic protocol. India understood this and avoided the political embarrassment by asking Girija Pd. to make this trip as early as possible. India denied Maoist a golden opportunity, an opportunity for safe landing, Prachand’s interview is an expression of the frustration of missing this opportunity.
This means India does not want Maoist involvement in present government and in Nepali politics.
One could also interpret this event as the first major political defeat that the Maoist suffered in their decade long political (violent) struggle.
I don’t know about that Baba.
Anyway the point here is that Prachanda is right. Wheather people here like it or not the Moaoist are a major force in Nepal’s current socio-political framework. The most important thing right now is for the current government to convince the Maoists to lay down their arms first and foremost before the CA elections. I don’t think the Maoist are desperate. I personally believe that if it wasn’t for the Maoist involvement the Jana Andolan II would have been unsuccessful.
I think India would not mind seeing the Moaist join the mainstream political arena. There is a popular conception that India does not want to set a precedence for its own insurgent. However, given the volitial situation in Nepal India is better off seeing a peaceful solution. I and think India leaders have long realized this. After all lets face it they have been meeting with Maoist leaders and and twisting their arms. Let’s not forget our own leaders and the Moaists met in Delhi before Jana Andolan II.
I agree that the Moaists don’t want to go back to fighting. However, we cannot uphold this attitude that the Moaist are desperate and they will do anything for political legitimacy. Because if the Maoist do go back to fighting it would be disasterous – you can forget about reforming the Nepal Army, reforming the institution of monarchy etc. and I don’t even want to talk about the economic and social implications. We are all desperate right now!
That’s why do the constitution assembly election first.
Dictators always impress with their extra logical talk, hiding their real intention. Same is the case with Prachanda.
Bujha na sujha.. i don’t think ra u don’t think bhanera comment lekhe bhaihalyo hai .. kya sajilo … If you were in village and had been one of janajaatis and the victims then I bet you guys might have been in their sena…
Try to think whole nepal’s perspective while making comments. He has talked brilliant in his interview although I have not got chance to get through his views and interviews before….
Yeah, I think he is eager for safe landing. if our leaders are unable to capatalise this opportunity then there will be more devastating effect. We shouldnot stick in small agendas forgetting what was the whole 19 days andolan for?? Our leaders must comply with what the people had given them the mandate to perform.
Lets forget about the what the India and China will think about. This is our country and this is our problem how you deal either with Maoist or with once so called king. Now we all must agree that Maoist is one of our part of life ..i mean they are part of every aspect of Nepal and we can’t undermine their voices. And we must not delay to address all the voices to establish long term peace in our country. Then only we can think of development and prosperity.
Prachanda should first clarify his position on various national issues and then talk of national politics.
But i feel that they should be included in the government, considering their strenght they are the first candidate in the government.
But finally prachanda’s team is more or less similar to Girija and Madhav’s team.
I am happy that Indian Govt. finally betrayed the maoists.
Release of the Maoist prisoners in India is one among several issues.
I even din know that Prachanda was so stupid to beleive Yehcuri, who is first an Indian-“Betrayal is in the Blood” then a communist.
Prachanda is a Maoist first and then a Nepali.
That’s the difference.
I don’t see any cause to be so skeptical to Prachanda as expressed in some comments. Lets be optimistic. One thing is clear that Prachanda and his party has accepted multiparty system and they are ready to compete with other parties. I do not see any problem in Maoist to solve the present problem. Now the problem lies with in us and SPA. We should be aware of that some rulling leaders in the present representetive body will be a part of history if Nepal will follow a republican setup, so they are trying to preserve their place by alternative way – making the king ceremonial by using a constitution given by the king. I will not be wonder if they came out with a vision that there is no need of new constitution.
Their feudalistic mindset and parasitic mentality is the main hurdle for the prosperity of the nation. New Nepal needs new leaders with prodemocratic mindset and farsighted vision. We all Nepali including leaders should go through an ideological revolution within us to make this April revolution a success. We all should be independent and operate independently. We nepali are very fond of taking others opinion and follow it. Being democratic does not mean to follow party leaders whatever they are telling or doing. We should watch their every action and analyze ourselves and then make our own independent opinion, similarly help others to make independent decision if they are in need.
It would have been better if the representative body had made an provision of an interim constitution and interim government in the old constitution 2047. It is not late to do so. Then we can scrap the old constitution and issue an interim constitution and make all-inclusive interim government based on national consensus. Then this government will announce for the election of Constituent Assembly after deciding its modality and disarmament of so called people’s liberation army and royal nepal army. During the election of CA, the Nepal Police, Armed Police force will work as the peace keeping forces.
All-inclusive government can also make decision about the use of maoist militia or other volunteers if there is any shortage of forces. We are in the way of peaceful revolution and we have not crossed the threshold yet and we should be cautious about any coup. So there is a need of unity among revolutionary forces and disagreement within us should be forgotten for the time being. Any diagreement between revolutionary forces should be revealed in people’s desk during election and let them decide what is appropriate to them.
What a devil’s plantation man here in earth.
Find your place………..
In all my life I have found that the communists are the best in interview and speeches (Bhasan). One of my friends who was actively trained by the Male party (prior UML) before 2046BS told me that they are trained on basic communication so that they could handle public relation more effectively.
Compare to NC, UML leader always performed better. Now the maoist will do it.
Shaman is right; Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Lenin and even king mahendra were better orator than their conteporaries.
Stop this bullshit dailogue on that terrorists head Prachanda!! You Nepalese should not waste your time discussing about him, India, China but should initiate on how you can organize yourselves to nab this man and hang him to death or pressurise the UN to try him and his comrade in International Court of Law. Have you forgotton the killings of innocent civilians by this terrorists head party? Oh you all discuss as elites with opinions but have you faced how it is to live in fear in once peaceful country?
If Prachanda really means what he says his party Maoist should join the present SPA government. What about Girija giving the portfolio of Home Minister to the representative of the Maoist Party so that he/she can arrest all the Maoists/non Maoists who are collecting donation from merchants and ordinary folks by force.
“if it wasn’t for the Maoist involvement the Jana Andolan II would have been unsuccessful.”
Let’s not call it successful until we see the result. If there is now peace it was successful; if not it was a failure.
how to separate prachanda’s lies from his real intentions?
– do an analysis of body language, voice and pupil dilation.
for me whatever he said, his body language was saying the opposite. he covers his face, puts his hand at nose, at the head etc to hide his intentions.
– he said he was democractic. this is a big lie for anyone declaring communist as communism is a dictatorship – dictatorship of proleterait as they say.
Can we afford benefit of the doubt to Prachanda? I find it no sense in talking about what he said- he spoke what everyone knows but the qualms that I have is, can we trust a person whose ideology has maimed, killed, and terrorize all in order to accept their terms forcefully. And, when such a person or a party comes into a government what will be their strategy in order to continue their quest for unattainable “utopia.” The same brutal tactics. I am fully convinced that communism survives purely because of Reign of terror, not an election or mandate.
Its a quandary- SPA does not have the mandate and Prachanda is right in saying they lack the legality so in a sense there is a complete power vacuum in the country. Judiciary is being made a kangaroo- all in all, I see no direction and strategy for Nepal. The basic back-bone of nation is slowly eroding and not long from now, God forbid, we will have a situation in Nepal just like in Somalia
Some appear impressed with Prachanda’s interview last night, but let us not forget that the Maoists are out to grab power by any means. For them armed and unarmed struggles are just two sides of the same coin. The “carrot and stick” method is a classical style employed by all extremist communists. They are out to influence the “minds” of the people; they are far from winning the “hearts” of the people since involves being sincere for peace.
Are the Maoists sincere for peace? I do not think so. They say that they are ready for peace, if they and what they stand for is immediately accepted by the people.
What are their immediate objectives? To be part of the decision making process in Nepal with a view to dominating all future decisions and then consolidating their grip on the people.
Why are they demanding the immediate dissolution of the HOR? So that they can then create a Peoples’ Revolutionary Council. Just as the SPA is attempting to proclaim the HOR a supreme body, even subjugating the judiciary, they too intend to give legitimacy to their bloody terror campaign of the past.
Today when the country is contemplating on how to place the military under political control, I shudder to think of the day when this becomes a reality, but with the Maoists in total control of the State organs through a “Revolutionary Council”. Let us not forget how the German Army became hostages of the Nazi Party in Germany and how the whole democratic world had to finally crush this tyrannical regime.
Peace has to be given a chance, but peace does not in anyway mean surrender. Freedom and democracy must not be sacrificed in the name of peace alone.
“we will have a situation in Nepal just like in Somalia”
We will not because the character of the Nepali people is completely different from the Somalis. This is also why we will not have a Pol Pot Kampuchea. Don’t underestimate the importance of character.
I saw the entire interview last night. My conclusions are:
1. It was less of an interview and more of a propoganda display. The intervewer asked him absolutely balnk questions carrying no weight but allowing Prachanda to rant on and on about his usual party line.
2. Most of the interview was spent on criticising the SPA and not much I am afraid was clarified regarding the maoist agenda. We know the philosophy, but what are the practical plans?
3. I was amazed that the interview did not even mention the extortion drive of the maoists? Is this guy a journalist or was he just so scared or in shock that he he could not place the required questions in such a long interview?
4. Really we did not get much from the man. He just went on ranting and left everything tpo question marks which are all unanswered. Basically the gist of the entire interview was : LET’S WAIT AND SEE.
5. I thought his reponse on the thousands dead was astonishing. Brushing it off his shoulders and comparing it with the British example. Why did not someone point out to this chap that we live in the twenty first century and not the sixteenth. I wonder if one of his own family members was killed in the past few years, would he be so casual about the affair?
6. Overall, I would call it an advertisement not an interview. Interviews are suppose to probe the interviewee. Not throw up generalised candy questions. Is the interviewer so stupid that he could not ask the questions that needed to be asked to a man who has brought this country to it’s knees?
“Janatale bagh mare, Sat dal ka neta haru junga ukhellera nautanki garirachhan!”
Absoultely right.
If SPA derails from its political objective, NO force would stop another October Revolution from happening here in Nepal!!
The nation is way ahead of institutionalising the Republic.
Bideshi, you speak of Nepali character,please tell me what do you see.
I see talk of autonomy in groups such as Kirats, Jyapos, Madhesi Morcha, Terai tigers (rest will soon follow). There is now religious divide, no telling where this will lead to but the signs are not good. There is no cohesive government which can bind the people rather day by day it is creating divide in social, economical, and political fronts. So the character of nation is eroding and giving way to sectarianism, groupism and fundamentalism. I guess this is what we all wanted as a change, a right to champion a cause in groups or individual’s interest rather than in nation’s collective interest. So be it.
Speaking of Character- I believed in it, too. But to my dismay and pride- I see none that I can speak off.
Mhz has the recipe for going back in time rather than going ahead of time. October rain- does it rain in Nepal around October?
Prachanda Comrade,
Great Interview inside the room with Sat Phone holding commandos arround and poor faced Kantipur tele. presenter Mr. Shrestha (never seen by anyone in Kantipur TV before) what a coincidence that both you were seen first time in KTV at the same time. I am totally convinced and sure that this is something that Prachanda has given this interview at least 5-8 hours length of time as it’s fully dubbed and edited many times. Whatever he was speaking wasn’t continuous.
2nd comment is: H
is disrespect to the seniors; many times in his interview he just said GIRIJA not even Girija babu or Girija jee or Mr. Koirala. If he was a respective guy, he would have said, Honourable Prime Minister or st PRADHAN MANTRI JYU but he just spelled his name like this “GIRIJA”. Shame on you Prachanda, you cannot run this country because we don’t like people like you who doesn’t have respect to others and doens’t care of higher Portfolio. Imagine, you Mr. Prachanda, you are in the UN Meeting in Geneva and addressing the Security council meeting, we expect you will say like this: KOFI ANNA RA SATHI HARU HO, we are trying to impose my prachanda path via UN security council meeting, you accept or do not accept, I damn care as my guerrilla will force you to accept, ha ha ha ha .
3rd comment:
You wasted most of time saying JANA SENA but what your jana sena has been doing from 10 years, everyone knows, once your JANA SENA disarmed, you will see your image as clear as mirror in our public of Peoples Republic of Nepal . You are saying that SPA leader will loose their bail but what about you Mr. Prachanda after not having your SENA with you. YOu might not even dare to stand as a candidate from any part of the country.
4th Comment:
You were talking about gender equality, women right, reservation for the minorities and marginalised once and equality in the society but do you remember, your millitia had punished more than 3 couples for being married inter caste as saying that it will disturb the socal structure. What about your top level comrades, do we need to remind you, how many of you having inter caste marriage. You people having dual mentality, sluggish brain, autocratic norms and heinous behavours.
As above issues have been addressing in the house, you Prachanda now fear of being isolated from people. SPA’s are addressing everythings that you have been raising from years thus you thought now it’s your time to provide some illusion to the public about SPA. YOu also fearing for the local body election because you know after reinstated the local body your JANA SATTA will be collapsed and you and your few millitia will be isolated.
Be pragmatic, we like intullectuals not gorrillas in government. Be a nice man, you will be I am sure treated nicely
Maobaid lai chetana bhaya
Prachanda, Brilliance, Shining – don’t we see the connection? From one mountaineous country of Peru to another mountaineous country of Nepal – it is the same. Planned by RIM, executed by our Maoists…..and apparently succeeding!
I hope the SPA have the insight and wisedom to act on behalf of the people rather than attempting to sleep with this monster.
Under no circumstances must the SPA include the Maoists in the government or dissolve the HOR before the Maoists agree to disarm. If they do, then it is the end of the SPA.
here i went through all comments which i found all of then superficial.
1st lets talk about the media house which broadcasted prachanda’s interview.this is kantipur you know the only media house working with the spirit of mission journalism in nepal is kantipur. their only mission is to distabalize the nation. as you can see who ever is in power he is targeted by them and opposition is exagerated by it. and all of us know that who are in its driving seat and who is funding it and most importantly it is the only media house which got approval for all sectors of communications which is very mysterious as well.
As during “jana Andolan 2 it was very critical towards that times establishment and sympathetic towards SPA as a reward it got sattelite linking approval. and now it is being sympathetic towards maoist and agressive towards SPA. do u think it is an interview with prachanda? it was like i was reading Janaadesh a maoist mouth piece. the way he has been questioned seems as if prachanda himself gave questions to kantipur prior to the so called interview. if prachanda can be on air why can’t he name the person who bombed the passange bus in chitawan? and what sort of punishment has he given to the culprit? what is his opponion use of innocent people as human shield during their attacks?
Why any question was not raised about use of hospital, bal mandir, cutting drinking water pipe lines, destruction of suspention bridges, killing of people who were in “Kiriya ” of their late parents, assasinated journalists, extortions, making school as their shelters, his clash with baburam, mani thapa and rabindra shrestha etc? because kantipur wants to promote prachanda and wants to use him. but remember that prachanda who is so cunning from the very begining of his political career when he was in mashal can not be used by Kantipur. it is bitter truth that instead of kantipur prachanda is using kantipur in his favour and when he grabs power you note it down that KANTIPUR WILL BE FIRST VICTIM OF MAOIST cos they know kantipur very well than we ordinary people.
Next thing what is prachanda doing by admiring all dead kings? he said mahendra did things to illiminate untouchability, birendra was more patriote and democratic than present king be sure if present kings dies he will not hesitate to say 1st feb’s take over was good for the nation. after some months if prachanda makes an alliance with the king as pol pot did in combodia we shouldn’t be surprised cos things are developing in this way. isn’t it true that now prachanda has been over confident on himself and started to defy indian instruction so that they’ve been driven away by india now? comrade prachanda can you please tell us who assasinated alok one time your very close ally? who killed rit bahadur khadka? in one hand you say all nepales should be gree to decide their fate but why do you say that without delhi’s and Us’s wish you can not join interim govt.
Isn’t it your cunningness to please india again can make the same cordial relationship with them again? i want to warn all the people that this peace is momentary and we all should be ready for more bloodshed because as prachanda said “only 13000 people died ” this shows his blood thirstness. of course he is power hungry as well that is why every time he was saying to join interim gov. till the time we do not give up for the totalirian prachadnistic state we should be suffering of violance. neither yachuri nor manmohan ,nor gyanendra nor girija nor madhav can make it.
Someone once told me that hearing Prachanda speak reminded him of a “typical Brahmin” who likes to play around with words and twist things said in the past to mean different things every time a new situtation arises. I did not really believe him then. But after the BBC interview (I could still give him the benefit of doubt, because BBC interviews are in English), and now the Kantipur interview, I must say he was correct. I was not impressed. Also, I am not surprised that Wagle of this blog was impressed, as people like Wagle with their limited understanding are the exact type of people Prachanda relies on and appeals to.
It’s a good opportunity to write comments on the Chairman of the maos on a blog written by a maoist journalist.
However, the following are the sort of question Mr. Shrestha should have asked but did not. (I don’t blame him as I don’t even know who he is and why experienced interviewers were not sent instead for the interview? An inexperienced rookie interviewing a Chairman of a party leading an insurgency for the last decade or so, seems hardly fair? Prachanda could therefore rant his propoganda in a more comfortable manner, the similar things he tried to say on BBC made him sound like a baffoon as obviously the interviewer was more experienced). My simple questions:
1. Why are you still avoiding coming out in the open like your other comrades?
2. Interim govt. then CA sounds about right comrade, but how about a compromise and discussing laying down of arms before this can happen? By the way what will your position be in the interim govt. -PM, DPM? Please don’t say you will let your comrades join but not yourself, because that is playing it safe should anything go wrong you will be blaming your own comrades as well. You have to step up to the plate, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Or can you?
3. Thousands killed comrade, what is your response? (We know his response). The follow up should have then been –
a. How can you argue that the army killed more and we killed less? After all without your insurgency the army would still be in the barracks.
b. This is the 21st century and you say 13000 is less compared to this and that revolution. But you are comparing apples and oranges. It’s like saying Ashoka killed hundred’s of thousand so it is ok that King Gyanendra only killed 21 in the janandolan.
4. Comrade, please tell us clearly what your economic and development plans are and how do you intend to get thje funding and the investment required to make Nepal a Switzerland like your right arm Comrade Prabhakar has stated? Saying it is one thing but the people would like to know just how you plan to do it, keeping in mind your communist ideologies which is rejected by the entire world. Or are you a capitalist communist?
5. What are your views on secularism?
6. You keep on saying democratic republic, but please clarify what you mean. There are many such claims made by totalitarian communist regimes through history, so is your democracy similar to that of Cuba or is it a multi party7 democracy where every five years we get to vote for our government?
7. Comrade, will you now apologise publicly on this interview for innocents killed, especially to the bus bombing victims in Chitwan, and explain to them clearly what sort of action against the perpertrators has been taken and when?
8. Finally comrade, if you claim to be so people oriented, when will you be handing your Chairmanship to another comrade preferebly a woman janjati comrade. Or are you Chairman for life, if so, is’nt that very totalitarian and nothing communal, socialist or communist in nature?
These simple questions with appropriate follow ups.
I didn’t watch the interview. Coz I couldn’t. Prachanda is just a dog. Gyanendra is no criminal if you compare him with this bastard. 13000 lives (and probably much much more) and he thinks he’s won the war.
sl, you are damn right!
I watched the (in)famous interview last night. Prachanda was talking as though he is a savior of the Nepalese people and their sole spokesperson.
The fact that the Maoists have the opportunity to vomit their bullshit through a national media is a historical coincidence. They have received such opportunity because of the morons like Wagle.
Did you realize how dumb, untelligent, and craftless people does KTV have by watching the interview the other night? I was shocked by listening to the questions Sohan Shrestha asked, and the way he asked these questions. Prachanda was treated as though he has recenly won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Prachanda is responsible for the death of thousands of innocent Nepalese. Do not be carried away by his interpretation, look at his intention. He and his moron comrades are committed to transform this country into a wasteland by telling us that Nepal can be made Switzerland.
Say no to guns!
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I could not help criticizing comrade Prachanda’s intention and interpretation.
It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us as utterly black and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work.
To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing (May 26, 1939), first pocket ed., p. two. *
Maoists wants to bring different type of autocracy in the name of Janata. His autocracy will be far more dangerous than of KG.
Jana Andolan II was nothing short than an uprising of the people against an authoritarian system. The message and mandate to the SPA was for the establishment of peace. What Prachanda and his Party are attempting with their threats is the re-establishment of yet another authoritarian regime. The SPA and the People must remain ever vigilant and ensure that this does not succeed. The threat from the right is now more imagined than real, the threat from the extreme left is now real.
The Maoists now have a golden opportunity to re-enter peaceful politics, Should they choose to ignore this, they should understand that now the Nepalese people, with the full support of the democratic world will hunt them down as terrorists till the last one of their kind is forever exterminated from Nepal. If such a situation does develop, then no quarters will be given or expected; no sympathisers will be tolerated, till they are all brought to justice.
Prachanda talks “BRILLIANCE” ????!!!###*^
What about the thousands who have been murdered, including little KIDS ?? – you call that “BRILLIANCE ???????
Somebody should get his head checked !
I also heard and watched carefully the interview. I do not find any briiliiance in that.You know the level of Wagle and his team.These people are in journalism but they serving for the vendetta to other people.
where are the people who picked on me for saying “rai looking lady”? sl, what’s a typical brahmin for you? How many brahmins have you really seen in your life? Let me rephrase the question, besides, girija, makune, prachanda, baburam, oli, sitaula, krishna prasad – how many others have you seen not in public figures. If you base your views on these public figures, then I should say all Chinese are communists, all Tibetans are monks, all Pakistanis are jihadists, all Americans are bloodthirsty trigger-happy cowboys. Having said all these things, I am not sayings, Bahuns are not cunnings – they are; and that is becuase they have had education(?) good or bad over centuries while other “people” did not have. They skewed the education to thier advantage; once everybody has the same access to the education – don’t worry everyone will be politically savvy like Prachanda. It will not be “typical brahimin” then.
6/9/06: The Black Day in the history of Nepal
Guys Our Team in Delhi has just handed over security issues to India.
From Mahendra to Birendra to Gyanendra all resisted this Indian desire and had to loose their power.
Now the so-called lokantantric people powered govt. handed over the only remaining Nepali Identity to the Dhoteess.
I have nothing to say it was written all over as the maoist movement had started.
And i call this the Black Day in the history of Nepal. We are finally SIKKIMIZED!
Let’s all sing “jana gana mana adhinayak” together.
“””Also, I am not surprised that Wagle of this blog was impressed, as people like Wagle with their limited understanding are the exact type of people Prachanda relies on and appeals to.”””
STRONGLY AGREE.
Prachada is great, he is unquestionably the savior of Nepali people. I hope one day he will become the president and Baburam the vice president of our country. Long live Prachanda Path.