YCL cadres thrash businessman in Biratnagar Shyam Sundar Sharda of Sharda Group of Industries was physically thrashed, garlanded with shoes and paraded around the city by the Maoist activists who accused him of framing an abduction of one of their members. He was later hospitalised. .... Sharda has been accused of seeking help of Indian criminals to abduct his driver Raj Kumar Rajdhami who happens to be a member of pro-Maoist workers union. ..... Following the incident, business community in Biratnagar have shut down their activities accusing the administration and police of remaining mute spectator when Sharda was being paraded around the city. ... a foreign employment entrepreneur Sher Bahadur Raut has been abducted by YCL in Kathmandu.These attacks on the Marwadi community are racist in nature. The Marwadis are an integral member of the Madhesi community, and the Madhesi Movement will defend the Marwadi community to the hilt.
Security beefed up in Marwadi settlements the Marwadi people might not have reported such cases to the police fearing "more harm" from the culprits
Marwari community in panic; 20 abducted in two weeks
The Maoists have only one option: to become a political party. They are going to willingly do so. Or they are going to have to be made to do so. We have plenty of political options to make them do so, and we must exercise them.
There can be no compromise whatsoever on the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights. There can be no compromise whatsoever on the framework of a multi-party democracy. All political parties must have the option to do political work in all villages, in all towns. Until then, there is no point in holding elections. It is for the Maoists to behave and hurry up the elections. The ball is in their court.
Nepal is about to become a multi-party democracy of state funded parties. That is going to be a better experiment with classlessness than any Mao or the likes of Mao attempted. And it is going to be a human experiment. There are not going to be starvations, and killings, and public humiliations of people thought to be class enemies.
Nepal is not going to see a Chinese style Cultural Revolution. Nepal's intellectual and business community are going to feel very safe inside Nepal. The Maoists are just going to have to live with the idea.
Nepal is no Pol Pot country.
The Maoists must not mistake peacemaking for weakness. They are going to have to firmly move from power-flows-through-the-barrel-of-a-gun to power-flows-through-the-ballot-box.
That is their only choice. That is their best choice. Any deviation or, worse, relapse, will be madness.
In a multi party democracy of state funded parties, they will have the option to do good. They can shoot for revolutionary things like major land reform, near hundred per cent literacy, near universal micro credit, universal secondary education, school lunches, and a host of other things.
Do you want the best by the Nepal's poor or do you want to worship dogma? That is the choice they face.
To harass businesspeople is to kill the hen that lays the golden egg. There is no democracy without the market mechanism. Before you redistribute some of the wealth, you are going to have to create wealth. And entrepreneurs are the ones who create wealth.
Entrepreneurs do what the state can't, what political leaders can't. They create wealth. They create jobs. The vast majority of poor Nepalis will benefit from entrepreneurs creating jobs for them than from anything any politician can dream of doing.
And I would like to know how much money the Maoists have. All political parties must disclose their finances before elections are organized. Maybe we should pass a law saying the richest party may not have more than 50% more money than the second richest party. Otherwise fair elections can not be imagined.
The Maoists are rich. For all their song and dance about the poor and classlessness, the Maoists are filthy rich. They are the richest party. It is loot money. They should be ashamed of themselves.
And the democrats are going to have to take clear stands. Enough appeasements. Enough blackmail. Enough giving in to the Maoist stunts. If the Maoists do not start behaving soon, we must think in terms of an electoral alliance against the Maoists.
When some Newar got mistreated by the Maoists, the business leaders of Nepal shut down the country. Where is a similar response to some Marwadi getting mistreated? That is ethnic prejudice. That is racism.
मैले पिरकल्पना गरेको मधेश राज्य
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Mathura Shrestha: Liar
न्यु यर्कमा छाता संगठनको अावश्यकता
Goal Is Ideological Fusion, Not Mainstreaming Maoists
ज्वाला, गोइत, टाइगर और कोबराको चुनाव क्यों लडना चािहए
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Best Option For All: Elections In June
Banning MPRF: Not An Option
Homework For Om Gurung
Gaur: Prachanda's Reichstag Fire?
Mainstreaming The Maoists: Various Scenarios
Madhesi, Janajati, Business Community
No Guns, Explosives, Weapons Outside Cantonments
A Federal Republic Electoral Alliance Against The Maoists Needed
Sadist Koirala, Kans Sitaula, Pol Pot Prachanda
On The Web
Sturmabteilung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s. ..... The SA carried out numerous acts of violence against socialist groups throughout the 1920s, typically in minor street-fights called Zusammenstöße ('collisions'). ...... It was far more common, however, for gangs of local SA men and Communists to pick street fights with each other. In these brawls the combatants on both sides were often armed with homemade melee weapons such as Blackjacks. ........ The SA was organized throughout Germany into several large formations known as Gruppen. Within each Gruppe, there existed subordinate Brigaden and in turn existed regiment sized Standarten. SA-Standarten operated out of every major German city and were split into even smaller units, known as Sturmbanne and Stürme. ...... "Terror must be broken by terror" ..... "All opposition must be stamped into the ground" ...... Today, the term "Brown Shirts" has been used to disparage the extreme rank and file of right wing and left wing organizations. It can also mean an individual of a political organization who is seen as very aggressive, narrow-minded and loyal to the party.
Germany under the Rule of Hitler by Gareth Jones, 1933
Sturm Abteilung (SA) : Nazi Germany
Axis History Factbook: Allgemeine-SS Brown Shirt
In The News
Fresh struggle if CA polls not held: Maoists NepalNews The central committee meeting of the CPN (Maoist) starting today in the capital opened debate on party chairman Prachanda’s political proposal, which stresses on “fresh struggle” if election to constituent assembly is not held. ...... “One of the strategies is to launch a peaceful movement if CA polls are not held” ..... the party headquarters in Budda Nagar
Poudel asks MJF, JTMM to come to the table
Janjatis hold demonstrations
2000 NA weapons locked up in containers
Abductions and intimidations continue in Terai The two factions of Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) as well as Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) have intensified abductions and threats in various districts of eastern Terai. ..... the JTMM-Jwala Singh faction looted properties from two dozen households of Dumariya VDC of Rautahat district. Properties worth over Rs one million were looted from the houses of persons predominantly of hilly origin. .... In Mahottari district, the activists of MJF have threatened the government employees against opening government offices. Since last one month, government offices in this district have remained closed ..... MJF has announced that it will impose three day Terai bandh from April 20
Japan hands over ballot boxes to EC
Thapa refutes allegations of plotting against CA polls
MJF forms panel to probe Gaur massacre
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