Crime, Organized Crime, Terrorism, State Terrorism

When Bobby Kennedy became Attorney General, to his dismay he realized his department could go after people who committed specfic acts of crime like murder, or kidnapping, but the big mafia bosses who were the real powers behind those acts were not officially recognized to exist. My point being, there is crime and there is organized crime. Tackling organized crime is the bigger challenge. If you let organized crime run amok, and only go after specific acts of crime, you would be fighting a losing battle. But if you go after organized crime in a sophisticated way, individual acts of crime and petty crime are much less in volume.

My point being there is terrorism and there is state terrorism. What you have in Nepal right now is state terrorism. You have a gang of about 30-50 individuals at the most who stand to benefit greatly, mostly in terms of money, if the status quo is maintained. The top guy is literally above the law, and the rest of them also act like they are above the law. There is some mafia thinking going on over there.

How do you deal with this?

First you perform a diagnosis. You crunch the numbers. How many people have suffered from the human rights abuses? How many have been killed? Then you look at the state treasury. Follow the money. It stinks as to how irresponsible the mafia has been. Even since the king's direct rule, there has been no accounting of Rs. 50, 00,00,00,000. In four short years, the king has broken all records. Apparently he does not think of the state treasury as the people's money. We have gone back a few hundred years when the kings thought so. The coup of last year was a time machine invented by this king. He turned back the clock.

Let me tell you how big that number really is. If it takes Rs. 1,000,oooo to build a high school in Nepal, for Rs. 50, 00,00,00,000 you could get 50,000 high schools. But there are only 4,000 villages in Nepal. Say we gave two high school per village, and then gave a bunch to the towns, for a total of 10,000 high schools, and if a hospital cost as much to erect as a high school, then we could have had 10,000 high schools and 10,000 hospitals for that kind of money, and we would still have used up only 40% of the money.

I am looking at the sum and I am thinking, for Rs. 50, 00,00,00,000, every village in Nepal could get itself two high schools, two hospitals, a post office, a village council building, a drinking water system, a telephone network, decent roads.

Don't quote me on this too eagerly. I have not really crunched down the numbers. But you get the idea.

This king has turned back the clock in more ways than one. The Nepali people's money has been stolen. The Nepali people have literally been robbed en masse at gunpoint. Other than the direct physical abuse thousands have been subjected to, millions have been deprived of better lives that could have been possible with the money that they already had collectively.

This is not to speak of all the foreign aid that has been scared off. This is not to say of the malaise that has been inflicted on the economy.

So there is physical abuse, and there is money. And then the basic human rights.

Right to free speech is priceless and non-negotiable. Right to peaceful assembly is priceless and non-negotiable. The basic human rights are all non-negotiable. You don't get those rights from any king. You have them because you were born human.

There was a time when every little or big country on earth had a monarch. That is like saying there was a time when malaria was widespread, polio was widespread. There was once the bubonic plague. But most countries by now have got rid of the monarch. Now it is Nepal's time to do so. And Nepal is in the process of doing it.

The question is not if the monarchy will end or not. The question is how. That question can partly be answered by the monarch himself. He has the option to climb down. Or he could get kicked out through a revolutionary act.

A constituent assembly is his best option. If he will not take it, the country is going to have to become a democratic republic under an interim president before it goes for a constituent assembly.

The streets of Nepal have gone from warm to hot. The movement has become a revolution. There is no turning back. The Nepali people know what they want. They want freedom.

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The Police, The Army Need To Stop Following Illegitimate Orders

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The Army Rank And File Need To Be For The People And Democracy

February 1, 2005 was a coup. There is no provision anywhere in the 1990 constitution for a coup. And so it has been and it is illegitimate for anyone on the state's payroll, either in the bureaucracy, the police, or the army, to be following the orders of this king and his yes men.

The police needs to stop following Kamal Thapa's orders.

The army should not follow the king's orders.

Those orders are illegitimate.

February 1, 2005 was a fatal blow to the 1990 constitution.

The movement option would be to incite the police and the army to join the people in the bureaucracy who have flat out come in support of the democracy movement.

But there will be a few bad apples who will knowingly follow orders, either for perceived gain or because they are sadists. Such will be punished. They will stand to lose liberty and property. They could be deported out of the country. They could be pushed into exile.

Kamal Thapa is threatening martial law. The seven party alliance has to respond by pamphleteering among the rank and file of the police and the army. They have to be brought on our side. They should be targeted with our message like the rest of the Nepali people. They are part of the Nepali people. Not only that, they are also on the Nepali people's payroll. That is a double whammy.

Hopefully April 9 will be decisive.

The king has come out saying he will announce the dates for "elections" on April 14. That is not someone in tune with the movement. Dialogue does not look like an option.

Right now the common minimum program is a Constituent Assembly. That is good enough. But if push comes to shove, we should be willing to change it to a Democratic Republic.

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सहरहरू तनावग्रस्त
४ सय पक्राउ

उजिर मगर/राजेन्द्र फुयाल

काठमाडौं, चैत २४ - सात राजननीतिक दलले आह्वान गरेको आमहडतालको पहिलो दिन बिहीबार व्यापक सरकारी दमनबीच देशभरका जनता स्वस्फूर्त सडकमा उत्रेका

छन् । बुधबार बिहानैदेखि प्रहरीले शान्तिपूर्ण प्रदर्शनकारीमाथि लाठीचार्ज र धरपकड सुरु गरेपछि अधिकांश सहरी क्ष्ाेत्र साँझसम्म तनावग्रस्त रहे । हडतालका क्रममा देशभरबाट ४ सय भन्दाबढी नेता-कार्यकर्तार् पक्राउ परेका छन् । लाठीचार्जबाट दर्जनौं प्रदर्शनकारी घाइते भएका छन् । प्रहरीले जथाभावी कुटपिट गर्दा सर्वसाधारणसमेत मारमा परेका छन् । दोहोरो झडपमा छ सुरक्ष्ााकर्मी पनि घाइते भएका छन् ।

आमहडतालको आह्वानमा निस्केका बेला सप्तरीमा प्रहरीको कुटाइबाट बुधबार गम्भीर घाइते एमाले कार्यकर्ता दर्शनलाल यादवको बिहीबार मृत्यु भएको छ । आन्दोलनकारीले बुटवल महेन्द्र पार्कस्थित राजा महेन्द्रको सालिक तोडफोड गरेका छन् । सरकारी निषेधाज्ञा अवज्ञा गर्दै राजधानीमा बिहानैदेखि चोकचोकबाट स्वस्फूर्त रूपमा जुलुस निस्किएका थिए । साँझसम्म जारी जुलुसमा हजारौंको सहभागिता थियो । काठमाडौं, भक्तपुर, ललितपुर र कीर्तिपुरका मुख्य चोक र सडक पूरै आन्दोलनमय भए ।

ठाउँठाउँमा प्रहरी र प्रदर्शनकारीबीच झडप भएपछि तीनवटै सहरका मुख्य सडक र बजार क्षेत्र साँझसम्म तनावग्रस्त भए । प्रहरीले आन्दोलनलाई नियन्त्रण गर्न ठाउँठाउँमा अश्रुग्यास प्रहार गरे पनि प्रदर्शनकारी झन् उत्तेजित भएका थिए । यसअघिका आन्दोलनमा भन्दा बिहीबार सडकमा जनसहभागिता बढी थियो ।

आमहडतालले राजधानीको जनजीवन पूरै प्रभावित भयो । सडकमा निजी तथा भाडाका सवारी साधन चलेनन् । मुख्य बजार क्षेत्र पूरै ठप्प भएको थियो । सहरका भित्री बजार र पसलसमेत बन्द भएका थिए । उद्योग, कलकारखानासमेत बन्द रहे ।

आमहडताल सफल पार्न उत्रेका नेता कार्यकर्तालाई सादा पोसाकका सुरक्ष्ााकर्मीले कुटपिट गरेका थिए । सुरक्ष्ााफौजको निर्मम कुटपिट, अभद्र व्यवहारबाट स्थानीय जनता आक्रोशित बनेर आन्दोलनमा सहभागी बनेका थिए । प्रहरीले अश्रुग्यास हान्दा झ्यालबाट पानी फालेर टोलवासीले सहयोग गरेका थिए । सहिदगेट, वीर अस्पताल, भोटाहिटी, क्ष्ाेत्रपाटी, मैतीदेवी, कालिमाटी, कलंकी, बानेश्वर, कोटेश्वर, बालाजु, गोंगबु, चाबहिल, कीर्तिपुर, मंगलबजार, सातदोबाटो, भक्तपुरमा सुरक्ष्ााफौजले पटकपटक धरपकड गरे पनि साँझसम्म प्रदर्शनकारीहरू सडकमै बसेर विरोध प्रदर्शन जारी राखेका थिए ।

पाटनको सुन्धारामा निस्केको जुलुसमाथि प्रहरीले ज्यादती गर्न थालेपछि पूरै जनता सडकमा उर्लेर प्रहरीलाई लखेटेका थिए ।

त्यहाँ प्रहरीले दर्जनौं अश्रुग्यास प्रहार गर्‍यो । स्थानीयवासीले ०४६ साल चैत २४ मा पनि यसरी नै प्रहरी लखेटेर प्रजातन्त्र लिएको भन्दै सुरक्ष्ााफौजको प्रतिकार गरे ।

पाटनलाई स्थानीयवासीले मुक्त क्ष्ाेत्र घोषणा गर्नुपर्छ भनेर व्यापक आवाज उठाएका थिए । मुक्त क्षेत्र घोषणाको तयारीका लागि केन्द्रीय नेतृत्व आवश्यक पर्ने र त्यो गणतन्त्रको भ्रूण भएको उनीहरूले बताए ।

विश्वविद्यालयका विद्यार्थी र स्थानीयवासीको संयुक्त जुलुसले कीर्तिपुर बजार नियन्त्रणमा लियो । प्रहरीले पटकपटक प्रयास गर्दासमेत नियन्त्रण गर्नसकेन । प्रदर्शनकारीलाई नियन्त्रण गर्न त्यहाँ थप तीन ट्रक सुरक्ष्ााफौज आए पनि असफल भई फक्र्यो । कलंकीमा सुरक्ष्ााकर्मीले एक सर्वसाधारणको घरको ढोका फोडेर निर्घात कुटपिट गर्न थालेपछि टोलवासी प्रतिकारमा उत्रे ।

प्रहरी कार्यालयका अनुसार काठमाडौंमा २ सय १६ र पाटनमा ६ जना पक्राउ परेका छन् । प्रहरी झडपमा तीन दर्जनभन्दा बढी प्रदर्शनकारी र प्रदर्शनकारीको ढुंगा प्रहारबाट १ प्रहरी अधिकृत र ५ जवान घाइते भए । बन्द क्रममा चलाइएका ८ सवारी साधनलाई प्रदर्शनकारीले तोडफोड गरे । प्रहरी ज्यादतीमा परी एमाले कार्यकर्ता कुमार थापाको औंला भाँचिएको छ भने मीनभवन क्याम्पसका स्ववियु सहसचिव भीम रावल घाइते भए । मीनभवनको बाटो हिँडिरहेका सुविधानगर सामुदायिक विकास समितिका अध्यक्ष प्रकाश पन्तको प्रहरी लाठी प्रहारबाट टाउका फुटेको छ । उनलाई सडकमा लडाएपछि पनि निर्घात कुटियो । पन्तको शरीरभरि चोटैचोट छन् ।

प्रहरीको लाठी प्रहारबाट घाइते भएकामा एमालेका जगन्नाथ खतिवडा, रमेशत्रिभक्त श्रेष्ठ, अनिल उप्रेतीलगायत छन् । कांग्रेस केन्द्रीय सदस्य डा. शशांक कोइराला, जगदीशनरसिंह केसी, दीपक गिरीलगायत पनि घाइते भए । कीर्तिपुरको झडपमा घाइते भएका नेवि संघका विष्णु दौलियाल र अम्बिका पन्तको वीर अस्पतालमा उपचार गरिएको छ । त्यहाँको झडपमा सुरेश शर्मा, कमल जोशी, गणेश बिष्ट, प्रदीप तिमल्सिना, आशिष कार्की, भीम बडुवाल, लीला सुनुवार, रमेश पाण्डे, एमालेका चन्द्र पन्त, डिल्लीप्रसाद भट्ट, नारायण पाण्डे, मधुसूधन पाण्डेलगायत घाइते

छन् । अधिकांश घाइतेलाई उपचारबिनै हिरासतमा राखिएको छ । मानव अधिकार आयोगले उपचारका लागि सरकारसँग आग्रह गरेको छ ।

रातो पुलको जुलुसमा नेतृत्व गरेका ट्याक्सी चालक संघका महासचिव रामचन्द्र कार्की, कमल न्यौपाने, जगन्नाथ गाैतमलगायतलाई सरकार समर्थित सशस्त्र जत्थाले खुकुरी र भाला प्रहार गरी घाइते बनाएको छ ।

सरकारले प्रदर्शन नियन्त्रण गर्न काठमाडौंमा सडक विभाजन गरेर झन्डै दस जना एसपी परिचालन गरेको थियो ।

Posted on: 2006-04-06 17:53:57