The Army Is Going To Stay Out Of This

The Madhesi Movement is a nonviolent movement for equality within Nepal. And the Nepal Army is going to stay out of this. The Maoist Army is going to stay out of this. This is not a movement for a separate country. And this is not a violent movement. This is no armed struggle. This is a movement of nonviolent militancy.

This is not a separatist movement. This is a movement by the Madhesi to find our rightful place in Nepal, not outside of it.

On democracy and human rights, the Madhesi Movement does not have any disagreement in principle with the seven Pahadi parties. The Madhesi Movement is so committed to human rights, it is fundamentally offended by the intense police brutality unleashed upon the Madhesi people. The Madhesi Movement will seek all remedies all the way to the international courts as necessary, over time.

This is a disagreement, this is a serious disagreement, sure. But the disagreement is on social justice. The Maghe Kranti has been more intense than the April Revolution was. It has lasted longer, it has produced more martyrs. It has had a harder time breaking into the global media, although that might soon change.

This goes on to show it is harder to get rid of Pahadi prejudice than it is to get rid of royal dictatorship, but that is a reason to intensify the Madhesi Movement, as we are about to. We are nowhere to giving up. To give up now would be to disrespect all those more than two dozen and counting who have already made the ultimate sacrifice. We are about to take this movement to a whole new level.

Of all the state institutions in Nepal, the army has been the most offensive to the Madhesi people. And so the Nepal Army is going to stay away from the Madhesi Movement. It is lacking in fundamental character, that's why. It has been the least representative of all state institutions as far as the Madhesis are concerned. The Nepal Army has no moral authority whatsoever to deal with the Madhesh.

The army can not mobilize itself. Three forces are going to have to come together for the army to get mobilized: the seven party alliance, the Maoists and the UN. I don't see those three forces coming together to that effect. I don't see a single of those three forces thinking the military option to the holy Madhesi Movement. For the seven parties, it will be the ultimate political suicide. For the Maoists it will be the end of the road. The UN will never go for such a stupid, inhuman thing.

And so these leftover feudal elements like this nobody Rana Dilip Shamsher needs to get the message loud and clear. If the April Revolution did not bring you to your senses, the Maghe Kranti will. This Maghe Kranti has not been waged to undo the April Revolution. It has been waged to complete the April Revolution. And you are going to stay out of the way or you are going to pay a serious career price because your feudal mouth ended up biting more than it can chew.

This is a nonviolent movement, the Madhesi Movement is. It might be intense, it might be accelerated, it sure is history fast-forwarded. But it is nonviolent in basic character. Right now we are engaged in a political tussle with Girija and his minions.

But the army is going to stay out of the way. The army is not a political institution. We finalized that during the April Revolution. And we are emphasizing that during this Maghe Kranti.

The army is going to stay out of the way. And Girija is going to give way.

The Madhesi Movement has been designed to attain victory and attain it will.

The whites did not become less well off when the black civil rights movement succeeded. Actually they became better off. Madhesi equality is not bad news for the Pahadis, for the Bahuns. It is good news for everyone.

All we are asking for is one person, one vote democracy. If you disagree with that basic premise, come debate me.

Or make way for the Madhesi train, for we are on the march. We will take total equality, nothing less.

Army men ordered to remain on ‘high alert’

BY PREM NEPALI

POKHARA, Feb 6 - Hinting that Nepali Army (NA) could be mobilized to contain the ongoing violent activities across eastern and central terai, Dilip SJB Rana, acting chief of NA's Western Divisional Headquarters, on Monday directed his subordinates to remain on "high alert".

Rana informed that NA has requested the government to take initiatives to develop interim agreement with the UN and CPN (Maoists) to mobilize its personnel for limited period. Addressing the Western Divisional Headquarters Conference on Monday, he said, "I direct Number 22 Brigade Headquarters to remain alert by keeping themselves mentally and physically trained to be mobilized under Aid to Civil Authority concept."

The Brigade is based in Butwal.

Rana was apprehensive that the country could once again fall into the quagmire of violence due to continued vandalism and arson in the names of Madhesi People's Rights Forum and Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM), a Maoist splinter group. "I direct the Brigade, foreseeing this extreme situation, to observe necessary precaution and keep its army personnel always on high alert by making appropriate preparation and execution plans," he added.

The function was attended by representatives of major political parties, senior army officials and battalion commanders of different army bases under the Western Divisional Headquarters.

Reading out his 15-page long speech, Rana said that Maoist violence had taken birth in the country due to political instability, rampant corruption and poor governance seen after the restoration of democracy in 1990. He added that NA relentlessly fought the Maoists for the cause of the nation and forced the latter to renounce the politics of violence and sit for dialogue.

Rana alleged that people could never feel good governance as the government would change invariably every six months during the period. He concluded that vested activities on the part of political parties had added fuel to the fire of Maoist violence. He opined that National Investigation Department could not act as anticipated as political parties had turned it into a recruitment centre for their cadres.

Rana also highlighted the country's ailing economy. He said the economy could not prosper as large borrowers did not repay their loan and large tax payers tried their best to evade taxes under political backing.

Meanwhile, local level political leaders alleged that Rana's critical statement of parties was a conspiracy to push the country into civil war.

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