Friday, May 05, 2006
Where Is Kamal Thapa?
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Nepal king’s men to be tried for atrocities NewKerala.com, India Three former ministers found guilty by the Mallik Commission went unpunished and were reappointed ministers by Gyanendra when he seized power through a coup last year. They are Kamal Thapa, royalist law minister Niranjan Thapa and general administration minister Badri Prasad Mandal. Since the king’s government fell last month, his ministers have been keeping a low profile. Mandal, who is also an MP, has not attended any of the sessions of the house when it re-convened from Friday while the two Thapas are said to be living under heavy army protection.
This is highly problematic if true. Is Kamal Thapa really under army protection? The king bowed to the April Revolution. The army will have to if it has not.
And if it does not, there has to be an inquiry. Who is behind this? The king? Or is the army doing this on its own?
If the king is behind this, he should get into trouble. Right now the consensus is on a constituent assembly. But if the king plays dirty behind the scenes, the country might as well become a republic before it goes for the assembly.
If it is the army, the parliament needs to pass acts to bring the army firmly under its control, and then it needs to reorganize the army top brass.
The army may not be allowed to play light with the idea that the sovereignty lies with the people.
Interim Constitution, Revolutionary Parliament
There is an urgent need for this parliament to get itself an interim constitution. Otherwise the regressive elements might think they still have some leg room.
We are not thinking in terms of kangaroo courts. Kamal Thapa still will have a right to a public trial. He still will have a chance to get heard. He will and should get legal representation.
A Truth And Reconciliation Commission is something the country can not avoid. Otherwise how will the country heal after a decade of war?
Violent repression of peaceful protestors is to be the first order of business. We have to send a clear message to the future democracy movements in the other parts of the world, in other countries that rule of law is on their side, and they should take to the streets with supreme confidence. We also have a promise to keep to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Even the flawed 1990 constitution guarantees human rights. Orders to curtail the same were fundamentally flawed. Wrong.
If need be the people will come out into the streets all over again. But if that has to happen, that will prove this revived parliament has failed the people. The people have already paid a huge price to get this House revived. Now this House has to do its job.
Under what authority is the army providing protection to Kamal Thapa? Under what constitution? Under what law? By whose orders?
It might as well be that this government might declare amnesty for the likes of Kamal Thapa. But that would not be for the army to decide.
The parliament has to flex its muscle. It already has the powers.
And if the king is behind this stunt, his speech that revived the parliament is as much a sham as the two right before that that he delivered to quell the revolution. He does not look good at all.
The revolution has to think in terms of the physical safety of the parliamentarians. We can not take any chances. The cabinet has to be protected. If the army were to attempt a coup, it will be worse for them than Yeltsin's Russia in 1991. The soldiers themselves will bring the army leadership down.
The Prime Minister needs to ask the king point blank if the king is or is not behind this illegal action on the part of the army.
Suspicions remain.
I think an interim constitution is our best bet at this point in time. If the people can not express their sovereignty in the parliament, they are going to be forced to express it out in the streets all over again. And that is why the parliament has to live up to the high ideals of the April Revolution.
The Prime Minister has to talk to the king. The Defense Minister has got to talk to Pyar Jung. If those two are not behaving, the people have a right to know that is the case.
Noone is proposing Kamal Thapa be lynched. And Nepal does not have capital punishment. The state could not possibly go afer Kamal Thapa's life either. But if the fear is that Kamal Thapa might end up a victim of some angry mob, the right thing would be to put him under police custody, by orders of the Home Minister. That would be legal. The army providing protection to Kamal Thapa is highly illegal. It should not be tolerated. These are warning signs.
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