Posted on 02/12/2006 8:50:07 PM PST by ncountylee
NEW DELHI - Nepal’s King Gyanendra will ultimately be exiled or executed because he has closed the door to any political compromise since seizing absolute power a year ago, the reclusive leader of the country’s Maoist rebels said.
“The king has taken steps that do not give any room for compromise,” Prachanda told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Monday. “It would be correct to say that the path that he has taken is the road to hell.”
The Maoists have been fighting since 1996 to overthrow the world’s only Hindu monarchy and install communist rule, a revolution that has killed at least 12,500 people and shattered the economy.
Prachanda, who has lived an underground existence for more than two decades, last year forged a loose alliance with the main political parties to topple the king and restore democracy.
“I believe that it (Nepal) will be a republic state in less than five years,” Prachanda said in the interview, which the BBC said was the first he had ever given for television.
“The king, I think, will either be executed by the people’s court or he might be exiled. For the king, today’s Nepal has no future. We don’t see a future for him and the Nepali people don’t either. The king might be finished or he might leave.”
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The moose have all but pushed the commies out of the news.
I don't recall ever reading anything to indicate that the U.S. is helping the government kill these communist vermin.
If not, why the hell not?
How many wars do you want us to be in?
"I don't recall ever reading anything to indicate that the U.S. is helping the government kill these communist vermin.
If not, why the hell not? "
Don't know why the US should really care. Nepal is not important. And supporting either side (communist vermin or a dictatorial monarch) overtly is problematic. But I wouldn't be surprised to find that we're supplying the government with aid, at least.
Death to the evil snake Prachanda! Death to the Moabaadi scum!
Well, I believe that we've given military aid to Nepal, M-16A2 rifles and such.
God, you people are stupid. Communism is always evil and always inimical (look up that word if you have to) to the United States. In one way or another, a communist regime ANYWHERE would be harmful to us. That is part of what commies do. Furthermore, the people of Nepal would suffer.
If we can prevent these outcomes with some military aid, or more military aid, we have an obligation to. I never said we should get into the war ourselves.
In addition, a communist victory in Nepal would encourage the communists elsewhere.
I hope you're right. We should give them everything they want.
"dictatorial monarch"
I believe he became dictatorial because of the communist insurgency. At times, in the real world, such things do happen.
Dictatorial monarchs are always better than communist dictatorships.
Maybe you should look up the relative meanings of "authoritarian" and "totalitarian." Your ignorance is an embarrassment.
"How many wars do you want us to be in?"
Whatever it takes, JWH. But this one doesn't strike me as a major drain on American assets. And notice, I never said we should be fighting in Nepal ourselves.
What they want to establish isn't a republic.
"You've fallen for one of the classic blunders.
The most well-known is:
never get involved in a land war in Asia"
~Vezzini
Princess Bride
Well, we aided the Afghan mujahiddin in the 1980s, with excellent results.
Rigidly following rules like this is pointless. Each case must be viewed afresh.
The peacenik quotient on this thread is a little surprising. It's as if y'all have forgotten what the hell communism was, and is.
Half of India's water originates in Nepal in the Himilayas. India already has issues with water shortages. China also has water shortages. Very little water flows North into the Tibetan Plateau. I think it would be short sighted not to ensure a prosperous India. India's population, though reported lower for reasons of IMF and World Bank incentives, is roughly equivalent to China's. This could serve as a significant counterbalance to the power structure in that region.
Pay close attention to Bangladesh. There's one of your major lynchpins.
check this out :
http://www.kantipuronline.com/interview.php?nid=64876
If I implied an equivalency between the two sides, that was a mistake. I agree wholeheartedly that communism leads unerringly to suffering. I read somewhere that in attempts to gauge "happiness" among world populations base economic success was surprisingly irrelevant, but that those under communist regimes were always less happy than those under any other system of government.
Basically, my previous post can be boiled down into two questions:
A) what is the vital US interest in Nepal (and this is a question that I am completely ignorant on, I admit), and
B) how can we help eradicate marxist rebellion while at the same time encouraging democratic reform? I understand that the hardening of the dictatorship in Nepal was a response to the rebels, but I also believe that frustration with non-democratic government only helps drive rebellions.
And thank you for the vocab lesson.
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