I have a vague feeling the Nepali Maoists are for a democratic republic and not for a communist republic, and this is not a tactical ploy on their part, but rather an ideological stand they have taken internally. But I might be wrong. And if I am wrong, and if the Maoists keep increasing their reach and influence, and finally they attack Kathmandu and take over, one of the first things they are likely to do is behead the king, if history is any lesson, because that is what Lenin's people did to the Russian Czar.
There is a saying in Hindi, jaan bachee to lakhon paye. If my life be saved, that is worth millions. No money and power in the world will be his if he were to lose his life. And I am really really worried for him. I am a democrat, which means I am against the current autocracy, of course, and I will and am doing all I can to help usher democracy into Nepal, but my ways are non-violent. The king's life is a no zone territory in my way of thinking. But it is not me I am worried about. I am worried about them Maoists. They might behead the king. I am worried.
Russia: From Monarchism to Communism
Last Russian Czar Remembered as Family Man "He was weak, not terribly interested in politics," he says. "He basically only liked two things, his family and outdoor activities. But he insisted on maintaining autocratic authority because he felt it was his sacred duty to keep it intact and pass it on to his son." ....... the Alexander Palace, an isolated castle to which they permanently retreated after the first Russian Revolution in 1905...... Yet as devoted as he was to his family, says Harvard's Richard Pipes, Nicholas was equally as inattentive to leading Russia's people and its massive military and bureaucracy. "His problem was that he was not suited to be an autocrat, and yet he insisted on being one. So Russia got the worst of both," he says........ In August 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas and Alexandra as royal martyrs.
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Nicholas II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The provisional Russian government at first kept Nicholas, Alexandra, and their children confined in the Alexander Palace 15 miles from St. Petersburg at Tsarskoe Selo (Tsar's Village). Attempting to remove them from the vicinity of the capital and so from possible harm, the Kerensky government moved them east to Tobolsk, in Siberia in August 1917. They remained there through the Bolshevik October Revolution in November 1917, but were then moved to Red Army and Bolshevik-controlled Yekaterinburg. The Tsar and his family, including several family servants, were executed without trial by firing squad and finished off by bayonets in the basement of the Ipatiev HouseJuly 17, 1918, by a detachment of Bolsheviks led by Yakov Yurovsky, a watchmaker from Perm......... The Soviets always argued that the execution took place as units of the Czech Legion, making their retreat out of Russia, approached Yekaterinburg. Fearing that the Legion would take the town and free him, the Tsar's Bolshevik jailers pursued the immediate liquidation of the Imperial Family. This is, however, disputed by telegraphic evidence and the Sokolov Report, which show mounting pressure to execute the Imperial Family by hard-line Bolsheviks, who argued that there was "no turning back." The telegram giving the order on behalf of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow was signed by Jacob Sverdlov, after whom the town was subsequently renamed........ The bodies of Nicholas and his family were long believed to have been disposed of down a mineshaft at a site called the Four Brothers. Initially, this was true — they had indeed been disposed of there on the night of July 17. The following morning — when rumors spread in Yekaterinburg regarding the disposal site — Yurovsky removed the bodies and concealed them elsewhere. When the vehicle carrying the bodies broke down on the way to the next chosen site, Yurovsky made new arrangements, and buried most of the bodies in a sealed and concealed pit on Koptyaki Road, a cart track (now abandoned) 12 miles north of Yekaterinburg. Their remains were later found in 1991 and reburied by the Russian government. The process to identify the remains was exhaustive. Samples were sent to Britain and the United States for DNA testing. The tests concluded that five of the skeletons were members of one family and four were unrelated. Three of the five were determined to be the children of two parents. The mother was linked to the British royal family, as was Alexandra. The father was determined to be related to several other Romanovs. Scientists said they were more than 99 percent sure that the remains were those of the Czar, his family and their attendants. Two skeletons remain unaccounted for - Alexei, the 13 year old heir to the throne, and one of his sisters, either Maria or Anastasia.
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The Russian Revolutions of 1917
Nicholas II, czar of Russia: Abdication and Death He was held first in the Czarskoye Selo palace, then near Tobolsk. The advance, in July, 1918, of counterrevolutionary forces caused the soviet of Yekaterinburg to fear that Nicholas might be liberated; after a secret meeting a death sentence was passed on the czar and his family, who were shot along with their remaining servants in a cellar at Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16. Their bodies were buried or burned in a nearby forest....... Discovered in 1979, the remains of the czar and the others who had been buried were unearthed in 1991 and reburied in St. Petersburg in 1998. In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized the czar and the members of his immediate family. Nicholas's vague mysticism, limited intelligence, and submission to sinister influences made him particularly unfit to cope with the events that led to his tragic end.
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This is why it is imperative upon the king to handover power to the seven party alliance. Even the UML that is now for a democratic republic has no designs on the king's life. Crown, yes. But not his life, liberty or property. The other six parties are neutral to the crown, but not yet officially for a republic. So those six might let him have not only life, liberty and property, but also crown in some form. But them Maoists? You never know about them.
Handing power over to the democrats is the best way to make sure the Maoists do not take over.
The seven party alliance hopes to seek a political solution to the insurgency. But if that not work, and there emerge a need to seek a military solution, for that possibility, the king should agree to have the state army squarely under the people's representatives. The crown needs to detach itself from the army.
It is because I am worried for the king's life.
And it is not just the Maoists. You also have to worry about the mob like during the French revolution. A mob can take a life of its own. Mobs are also known to execute, like in Romania.
So I hope the king comes to his senses and hands over power to the democrats and soon.
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