The king's army is said to be infested with people in the top ranks who are engaged in massive drug trafficking as a source of income. Grabbing state power was a logical next step for them. They already had much control. They bribed, threatened, cajoled, ran rackets and otherwise prevailed in their mafia ways even when they did not have total power. Their palatial homes are proof.
There are people in the police, starting with Home Minister Kamal Thapa, who are clinically proven sadists. He is said to keep his home dirty deliberately. Swatting flies is his favorite pastime, it has been reported.
It is not true the Maoists have infiltrated the seven party alliance rallies, but it is true smugglers and sadists have long infiltrated this regime. And there are a handful of sycophants who will be the earliest people to abandon the sinking ship, for they never got onto the ship out of any love for the king. They went for profit. They will know when to lose interest.
But the revolution is about to smash the old order. Freedom beckons the people out into the streets.
The Army Is Preparing To Totally Abandon The King
Many top brass have sent out feelers to Delhi that if the seven party alliance will play the game, they will ally with the alliance to get rid of the king and fight the Maoists. The army is going to come under the parliament. The parliament may order the army to keep at war, or declare peace. The army does not get to strike any kind of a bargain beforehand. The parliament will command the army. The alliance will give orders to the army. That is how it will happen.
Another sign. The army folks in Kakani were driving Madhav Nepal to freedom. And then half way they turned around explaining they just got orders from "above." These army folks in Kakani are trying to get onto the good side of the guy who will soon be their Commander In Chief. They are trying hard to give Madhav Nepal the impression they are simply following orders. They are not guilty of imprisoning him. That is an army unit that now knows which way the wind is blowing.
Yet another sign. A crowd in Nepalgunj walked past the army barrack to go demolish a Gyanendra statue under construction. The army folks kicked back and relaxed saying it is a public road.
The Police, The Army
We need to win over both. We already got the bureaucracy. We even got Kamal Thapa's personal assistant.
We need to get the police and the army on our side to offer physical protection to the revolutionary parliament.
In The News
Nepal agitations intensify
Police in Nepal arrest 250 professors
Rights groups urge sanctions against Nepal leaders The Westfall Weekly News, Canada
India pressures Nepal as death toll climbs Nation Multimedia, Thailand
INTERVIEW-Nepal's economy can hold out for months -W. Bank Reuters AlertNet, UK
Nepal government media ignores Karan Singh's appointment NewKerala.com, India
CNN interview lands US envoy in trouble in Nepal NewKerala.com, India Moriarty, who till last month had been in the good books of the king for trying to persuade the opposition parties not to forge an alliance with the Maoist insurgents, was summoned to the foreign ministry here Tuesday...... the envoy had said if Gyanendra continued delaying restoring power to the people, he could face a messy abdication. The US does not want to see the king fleeing the country clinging to the wings of a helicopter, Moriarty told CNN....... Asked what kind of gesture the US expected from the king to effect reconciliation with the opposition parties, his impromptu reply was, "preferably not the one with the middle finger".
Foreign Ministry summons US envoy Moriarty
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