Posted on 12/24/2005 12:33:42 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Kathmandu : Nepal's Maoist guerrillas took advantage of the ceasefire called by them in September to buy arms from India, the official media here reported Friday.
The Rising Nepal daily, the mouthpiece of the government headed by King Gyanendra, said the information was given to the Royal Nepalese Army by an ex-Maoist "combatant".
The informer, the daily said, was a 13-year-old girl from Ilam district in eastern Nepal.
Ishwara Neupane aka Richa, who reportedly surrendered to security forces and was presented at a press conference at the district administration office in Jhapa, also in eastern Nepal, was quoted as saying she had been abducted by the rebels from her home a year ago when she was 12.
The "child soldier" said she was taken to a place called Fuyatapa in Ilam, near the Indian border, and "trained to carry and set off grenades and other explosives".
The schoolgirl was also forced to "remain in the frontline during attacks, serve as a sentry and set up ambushes in Rakse and Ektapa" in the same district, the daily said.
"The group had been purchasing arms from India during the ceasefire and still holds around 25 children in their camps," the report stated.
Defence experts agree communist guerrillas could be buying arms and ammunition either from criminal gangs in the neighbouring Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, with whom Nepal shares an open border, as well as insurgent groups in India.
A spate of bank robberies and the steep extortion demands by the guerrillas seems to corroborate the suspicion.
Goaded by the recent recruitment drive by the Royal Nepalese Army, the Maoists have also stepped up recruitment to their underground self-styled People's Liberation Army.
Once comprising four divisions, the banned party has decided to expand it to seven divisions.
Maoist supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda announced a three-month unilateral ceasefire in September and then extended it till Jan 1. During this period, the Royal Nepalese Army has been reporting massive recruitment and induction by the rebels.
This has Chinese government all over it. If they ever overthrow the government they will immediately ask for Chinese "help". The Chinese will roll in and wipe the Nepalis out just like they did the Tibetans and install their own ethnic Chinese.
India should step in and help Nepal wipe out the rebels. Instead they're basically giving them safe haven. Many Indian states have leftist governments bordering Nepal which are basically traitors to India and useful idiots for the Chi-coms. They buy into all that pinko crap about the how the maoists are fighting for the poor and down-trodden.
You're right about the dirty communists in the state governments. The fact that the Federal govt. is supported by the communists doesn't help matters either. However, the situation outlined here does not provide the full picture. Nepal is an independent country and Indian troops cannot enter at will. The current king has to welcome Indian and Anerican help (which I have been wishing for).
The Nepal situation is not all that clear even today. The current king came to power in a coup in which all members of King Birendra's (who was pro-India) family were executed by the pro-Chinese current king (as you ae obviously aware). The king's loyalties are suspect and I think the ChiComs are playing the king off against the Maoists and supplying both sides in the process.
China's actions in Asia are troubling and I hope we have an America-India-Australia-Japan axis as soon as possible. Such an axis will restrict the ChiComs from expanding their sphere of influence. However, all this talk is meaningless as long as China is America's MFN partner.
India and Bhutan have jointly conducted military operations to wipe out Maoists in Bhutan. Today Bhutan is moving towards democracy while Nepal is digging itself into a hole. And the King is responsible for this. He is using the Maoists excuse to crack down on his political opponents and pro-democracy protesters. The RNA has recently carried out massacre of innocent civilians in Nagarkot. There is no way India should or will support this mad man.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=194258&cat=India
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a2Za7sa.9amal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20051221
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a2Za8ua.9amal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20051222
The pro China King is taking "Tianmen square lessons" from the China on how to handle pro-democracy protestors.
As for Tailgunner, he is yet another anti-Indian who will regularly come up with articles and posts that berate India.
Are you referring to me, Tailgunner Joe? I hope not because I am one of the biggest supporters of the liberation of Iraq. Thanks to other FReepers, I have a copy of my call to Rush's show if you want to truly know about my views.
If you are not referring to me, please indicate as much.
I wasn't referring to you. I just wanted you to read my comment to Gengis Khan.
OK.....that's clear then. Thanks for the clarification.
Actually, I doubt that Beijing wants to annex Nepal, rather I think that they would prefer it to basically become another North Korea...that is another "client state". IMHO, I'm not aware of Nepal having anything that would make the ChiComs want to annex it outright.
You may be right. I've been there and it's dirt poor but culturally rich. The beauty of the place is astounding.
It sounds to me like ultimately the Indians are their own worst enemies, at least in that regard (no offense to anyone of Indian background).
Never ever said anything about whether US should stay or leave Iraq. And neither have I said anything about atrocities commted there. All i said was India has nothing to do with either Iran or Iraq. You expect me to support US presense in Iraq, I neither support nor oppose. We have been fighting WOT longer than the US, and in most cases we are fighting the same enemy but we are not on the same side.
You are a pathological liar and an anti-India and I will give your words the weight it deserves.
"As far as occupying is concerned I think US must leave Iraq. Iraq isnt exactly US territory." - #58 by Gengis Khan
"Might I remind you that you should be the last person to point a finger at the Indian Army (my brother died fighting in the IA) after all that we have seen in Iraq, Abu Gharaib and Gitmo." - #32 by Gengis Khan
You sound like a commie to me.
As usual you would rip off individual lines from a whole text to deliberately arrange them the out of context.
Those comments were more rhetorical in nature meant as a response to charges labeled by one Freeper on the Indian Army's supposed "occupation" of Kashmir and "atrocities" on the local Kashmiris.
As far as Iraq (or Iran) is concerned I am neither in favour nor against the American position.
Since you were neither part of the discussion nor know anything about the topic we were discussing I dont think I own any furthur explaination then whatever I have already given especially to a propagandist liar like you who picks and chooses individual lines and deliberately places them out of context.
And I believe every word jb6 says about you.
"Not everyone who is ambivalent to your foreign agenda is anti-Indian."
Yes they are not. However your agenda is different.
"We are just against all foreign agendas, whether yours or your Russian friends. Get over it. Your chauvinist Indian ideas will never be shared by the majority of Americans."
I dont have any agendas. I dont expect you or anybody to share my opinion, rather my opinion is that India and US are on different sides. We are fighting the same enemies but from different sides. We aren't allies.
Whether the majority here is pro-Pak or pro-India or ambivalent is the least of my concerns. My problem is with propagandists like you who hurl slanderous libels on India over Christian persecution and support to terrorists.
Yeah, reality and truth are rather foreign concepts to him.
You seem to have mistaken the Free Republic for Bharat Rhakshak. I didn't know being pro-Indian was a requirement for posting.
And where exactly did I say that being pro-Indian was a requirement for posting? Can you show me?
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