Posted on 04/13/2006 10:23:12 PM PDT by Gengis Khan
you havent been to Harvard Square in the People's Republic lately have you? there is a huge amount of support here and there is a Maoist Bookstore raising funds at 1156 Massachusetts Ave (Revolution books). There are a lot of rich liberals here and business is brisk.
i second this. I have only heard of 2-3 people getting killed in rioting.
Let me clarify. No government (not even the Chinese) is supporting the Maoists, because they're brutal and crazy. But Gyanendra is doing his best to try to make the Maoists look good, which isn't easy.
The king will fall, all right, but I don't think the Maoists will take over -- not if something is done now.
They are already the only authority in most of Nepal, only Katmandu is left to fall
But they weren't until Gyendendra set up his little cult of personality.
Even if the maoists and the "democratic" parties weren't on the same side, which they are, nobody even imagines that the democrats could beat the maoists.
Gyanendra sure can't beat the Maoists. He made it his top priority and he's lost badly. He's completely discredited. The only opponents Gyanendra's beaten are newspapers and democracy activists. The small-d democrats are only allied with the Maoists in the sense that they're both opposed to Gyanendra's dictatorial rule. But the opposition doesn't want the Maoists in power by any stretch of the imagination.
These so-called "democrats" who refuse to participate in local elections are in open and official alliance arranged by a hostile foreign power, India, with terrorists for the express purposes of overthrowing the government. They're traitors.
The reason the king cannot beat the maoists is because their cause of overthrowing the monarchy is supported by the government of India.
The legislature was dismissed because it was worse than useless and thoroughly infiltrated with communists and maoist sympathizers.
And the result has been to make the king about as unsympathetic as he can possibly be for the overwhelming majority of Nepalese. It's amazing sometimes how much the little people cherish their democracy.
These so-called "democrats" who refuse to participate in local elections are in open and official alliance arranged by a hostile foreign power, India, with terrorists for the express purposes of overthrowing the government. They're traitors.
Do you consider the United States to be a hostile foreign power as well? It seems nobody supports the king, even though everybody would like to, because his tyrannical megalomania is so supremely counterproductive and as ineffective as it is unjust.
The reason the king cannot beat the maoists is because their cause of overthrowing the monarchy is supported by the government of India.
You have any evidence whatsoever that the Maoists are supported by India? Didn't think so. Your attempt to erase any difference between the legitimate domestic opposition and the Maoists is laughable and unpersuasive.
Good, it looks like we're on the same page. The Nepalese Maoists are scum of the earth. But while we're at it, can we agree that Nepal cannot afford to continue to have Gyanendra as king? This is a man who threw the leaders of the democratically elected anti-Communist government in prison because...well I guess they represented a threat to absolute dictatorship.
'India to blame for Maoist attacks in Nepal' - "The attacks could take place because of the Dilli daur (run to Delhi)"
Some part of the opposition may have at one time had some legitimacy, but that was before they signed an agreement with terrorists responsible for the murder of thousands.
LOL! Most of the political opposition you refer to are in fact Communist Parties. The parties which have cemented an official alliance with the maoist terrorists include the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), People's Front Nepal, Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, and the United Left Front amongst others.
In Nepal, the opposition is everybody other than Gyanendra. That would include anti-Communist former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Support for the Maoists has traditionally been very limited.
Gyanendra has his supporters in Nepal. Cheif Among them are the Royal Army of Nepal, the only thing which stands between the maoist animals and their impending Khmer Rouge-style genocide.
Ok, so there are leftists in Nepal. No surprise there
You forgot to mention the anti-Communist parties, which are together much larger, and which include: The Nepal Congress Party, the RPP and the Nepal Sadbhavana Party. The idea that the only opponents of the King's are the crazy Maoists is completely ridiculous.
Don't bet on it.
the only thing which stands between the maoist animals and their impending Khmer Rouge-style genocide.
Funny, the Maoists weren't taking over before Gyanendra...
The 7 parties allied with the Maoists fall into two categories, communists, and the allies of communists.
Yes they were.
True. In fact, the "right wing" of Nepal is the socialist Congress party. So you can imagine what the rest of the parties are. It is depressing.
"Don't bet on it"
It is very unlikely that the Army will abandon the King. And even more unlikely is that Kathmandu falls to the Maoists.
And what's the likelihood that the King of Nepal will declare himself an absolute monarch and eliminate democracy, throwing the leaders of the elected government (including the anti-Communist Prime Minister) in jail, abolishing all civil rights, and using the bogeyman of "Maoists" to try to eliminate all political opposition, including from the anti-Communist majority? I'd say it's slim... except it already happened.
I don't think the Army with continue to support the King... I frankly don't think he'll be alive at the end of the year. This is a guy who shares a lot more in common with Kim Jong Il than he does with a legitimate anti-Communist, except he lacks Kim's social skills and charm.
What is it with the useful idiots comparing the king to Communists when he is actually the one fighting communists? First he's Pol Pot now he's Kim Jong-Il. Next they'll compare him to Mao himself. They sound like Nation magazine or something savaging Chiang Kai-Shek or Fulgencio Batista. Delusional parlor pinks always have to twist the enemies of communists into the bad guys to try and justify their communists sympathies. When the maoists start building their pyramids of human skulls in Katmandu, it will still be all the kings fault, though, not theirs.
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