Posted on 06/15/2007 6:50:23 PM PDT by Srirangan
Nepal Maoists' chief Prachanda Friday asked former US president Jimmy Carter to intercede with Washington to take his party off the US list of terrorist organisations.
Carter met the top leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which is outlawed in the US, marking the first public interaction between the rebels and an American citizen of his stature.
'I told Carter we would like to establish amicable diplomatic relations with the US,' Prachanda said after the nearly hour-long meeting. 'We are ready to hold talks with Washington at any level.'
The Maoist chief also said Carter wanted to know if the crucial election, postponed once, would be held in November.
'I told him we had fought our 10-year people's war just for the election,' Prachanda said. 'We want to have the election at the earliest since we will derive benefits from it.'
The Nobel peace prize laureate also asked Prachanda about the activities of the Young Communist League, the militant youth wing of the rebels, which had acquired a reputation for taking the law in its own hands.
However, after the meeting, Prachanda, who attended a public programme in Kirtipur town, expressed misgivings that it could be impossible to hold the election even in November in view of the deteriorating security situation.
In less than a week, four rebels have been killed in the Terai plains.
A local Maoist leader, Dasahrath Thakur, was killed Tuesday in Saptari district by a band of former Maoists, who have now begun waging a war on their former comrades.
On Wednesday, even as the guerrillas called a closure in Saptari in protest, two members of its militant youth wing, the Young Communist League, were killed in clashes in Rupandehi, allegedly by the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, whose leaders also met Carter Wednesday.
The killings continued Thursday when Jokhan Mansoor was gunned down in Bara district by the same band of renegade Maoists, the Janatantrik Terai Mukrti Morcha led by former Maoist Jwala Singh.
The Maoists' central committee leaders held an emergency meeting in the capital to discuss the fresh developments.
Chandra Prakash Gajurel, in charge of the party's foreign division, told the media after the meeting that his party would start a new agitation to combat the continuous attack on Maoist cadres. A committee has also been formed to chalk out the plan of action.
'We have discussed what our moves would be in the government and in parliament,' Gajurel said, without elaborating.
Carter just doing the work Americans don’t want to do...
What stature is that, commie-sympathizing U.S. ex-Presidents?
Niple Maoist...
Mammary Mao the Commie Cow
and OTHER Transformer Action Heroes!
Nepal Maoists’ chief Prachanda Friday asked former US president Jimmy Carter to intercede with Washington to take his party off the US list of terrorist organisations.
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Somebody would have to intercede to get Jimmy Carter’s name off the list of terrorists.
Yep, that’s the one. He’s a slug.
Commie meets commie.
Birds of a feather...
This SOB ought to be chastised in public by the WH. Personally, I’d bar his re-entrance to the US of A.
Billy was the smarter of the two.
From all available sources I’ve read, this group still has several thousand abducted child slave soldiers in reeducation camps/garrisons in the mountains.
even the most perfunctory glance at their record shows this immediately, i.e. just one search on Google brings forth this information.
How much money has Jimmy Carter’s non profit orgs received from Nepal Maoists’ financial supporters?
Human Rights Watch just placed another news release on the issue just 5 weeks ago: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/05/07/nepal15863.htm
Jimmy Carter is going to publicly rebuke the HRW organization because the Maoists are paying him a larger bribe?
Carter can’t find anybody else who likes him.
Some ex presidents we have.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: June 12, 2005
KATMANDU, Nepal, June 11 - An explosion tore through a bus Friday along a highway east of here, killing at least eight people, including six Nepalese soldiers, and wounding two others, the state-run radio reported.
The radio quoted security sources as saying the attack was carried out by Maoist rebels, but no group has yet taken responsibility for the attack. The radio said a homemade bomb destroyed the bus near Narke, a village about 30 miles east of Katmandu. The bus contained soldiers who were returning to the capital after an operation against rebels.
The attack came just four days after a bomb destroyed another passenger bus in south central Nepal, killing as many as 39 people, including three members of the state security forces. Maoist rebels claimed responsibility for that attack, but accused the government of using civilians as shields by having soldiers travel on civilian passenger buses.
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COMMENT: What do you bet, Jimmah feels right at home among these terrorists? But Carter needn't feel threatened; they probably already know he was the inspiration for O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief."
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“Carter just doing the work Americans don’t want to do...”
Is “Jimma” a “spitter” or a “swollower”?
The “smart” money would go with the latter as opposed to the former.....
What were they thinking? Don't they realize they will be an international outcast for meeting with Carter?
What authority does Carter have to negotiate on behalf of the U.S.?
Ping.
Carter is a very little man.
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