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275 2 - 8 December 2005 16 Pages Rs 30 #275 2 - 8 December 2005 16 pages Rs 30 On the move SHAILENDRA KHAREL The country has entered a critical phase, as the people wait for the 12-point understanding between the Maoists and political parties to kick in and yield the twin fruits of peace and democracy. At the village level, the parties continue to mobilise support, as in this rally in Kalikot (above). The two most important issues ahead are: how King Gyanendra will react to this rebel-party combine as he returns to the country on Friday after his African air Editorial p2 safari and whether the rebel leadership can take their Nepali Radio, cadre and fighters along on the road to peace. Besides Nepali Awaj the king, the parties and the rebels, the other players who will play a defining role in the weeks ahead include the Royal Nepali Army and the international community, including the United Nations, India, the western embassies, the judiciary and civil society. (Turn to Analysis on page 4.) Weekly Internet Poll # 275 Q... Do you agree with the party-Maoist accord on an election to a constituent assembly? Total votes:4,679 Weekly Internet Poll # 276. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com Q... Do you agree with the government’s action against the relay of BBC Nepali Service through FM stations in Nepal? 2 EDITORIAL 2 - 8 DECEMBER 2005 #275 Published by Himalmedia Pvt Ltd, Chief Editor: Kunda Dixit Desk Editor: Marty Logan Design: Kiran Maharjan Web: Bhushan Shilpakar Vicepresident Corporate Affairs: Sneh Sayami Advertising: Sambhu Guragain [email protected] Subscription: Pushparaj Sharma [email protected] Sanchaya Kosh Building, Block A-4th Floor, Lalitpur [email protected], GPO Box 7251, Kathmandu Tel: 5543333-6, Fax: 5521013 www.nepalitimes.com Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hatiban: 5547018 Let the people decide The silent majority wants neither to dismantle NEPALI RADIO, NEPALI AWAJ the royal apparatus nor a powerful monarchy The Supreme Court has stayed the Ministry of Information’s decision to close down Radio Sagarmatha till 7 December. Once re we, at last, observing plans have already been is ‘for the people, of the people again, timely intervention by the court has bought time for a some real political activity announced: municipal and and by the people’. But how do pioneering community radio that symbolised people power not just A from our political parties? parliamentary elections. After we determine what the people in Nepal but also the region. The goings on in New Delhi rejecting outright polls under want when there are no But what the episode also exposed was the deep insecurity of a might have resembled a circus this regime, the seven-party representative elections and no regime that is afraid of its own shadow following the party-rebel but there is a strange euphoria pact. It was another brazen nocturnal raid on a radio station, a alliance has gone ahead to opinion polls with an ideal methodology that has become the trademark for the way these about them. negotiate with the Maoists. If— demographic reach? We still have fellows go about their business. If there is no hidden agenda and it is a big if—the Maoists are that magical option called a The flunkies assigned to carry out the order of the unnamed and no recurrence of bad not playing games with the referendum. There is a precedent, ‘higher up authority’ violated just about every principle of civilised behaviour, then this must be negotiators and there indeed is an albeit not a happy one, of the behaviour. It was a violation of the citizens’ right to Freedom of taken as the beginning of offer to give up the armed 1980 referendum. Expression and Right to Information, it went against Article 19 of the insurgency then this is a great This is probably far removed International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Universal achievement. from the visions of various Declaration of Human Rights 1948 and it violated the 1990 GUEST COLUMN Narayan B Thapa What are the pitfalls? The political forces but such a constitution. same as they have always been: referendum would have three But much more than all that, it showed that the council chaired the monarchists don’t want to questions: by the king does not respect even the laws that it swears by. It something positive on the proved that doubts about the royal regime’s legitimacy are well give up their hold on power and Do you want elections for a founded and gave more reason for critics to doubt its honesty and political horizon. According to the rest of the polity wants to constituent assembly? sincerity. some of the leaders involved in dismantle the royal apparatus. Do you want parliamentary The Attorney General says a Hindu king’s authority is almost the Delhi health visit drama, the In the silent majority there is elections under the 1990 limitless. It’s a little difficult to argue with logic like that. In all Maoists are willing to lay down support for neither camp. They constitution? modern societies, individuals have inalienable rights—they can’t be their arms in return for elections would like the king to have an Do you want reinstatement given or taken away, bought sold or bartered. They can’t be to a constituent assembly. important inspirational role in of the dissolved parliament abrogated. Rights thus have intrinsic as well as instrumental value Unfortunately, the published 12- the future of the nation. After all, under the 1990 constitution? since rights help establish peace. point understanding between the he is the descendant of a ruling These three questions A government, even if it is for its own survival, must protect the parties and the Maoists gives a system entrenched in the Nepali include the most important basic rights of its citizens. They never learn from history, different picture and, most psyche and as such has a useful wishes of the three protagonists do they? Governments violate these tenets at their own importantly, maintains an peril however much they cloak it all as punishment for place as a symbol of unity in an in the conflict. They are very airing the interview of a terrorist. (For the record: Radio ambiguous position about ethnically diverse society. A unlikely to be settled either by Sagarmatha never broadcast the Prachanda interview, the monarchy. chastened political leadership negotiations or by ignoring them. the state just presumed it would.) The royal should give up the unrealistic A referendum is the way out of As the highest court of interpretation and custodian government’s and vindictive demand for the the political deadlock that will of the constitution, it is the responsibility of the demise of the monarchy and follow the proposed elections if Supreme Court to stand by the fundamental formulate a plan to include it in the bulk of the political players rights of the people, since the post- a benign but positive role in a boycott them. Legitimacy for the February First regime has decided multiparty democracy. referendum, on the other hand, not to. By restraining the There is no place in the 21st will be provided by an agreement government from imposing its century for the type of royal of the political forces and by the will, the court has given us reason to hope but it needs to actions we have been subjected to people’s participation in it. do a lot more in the days to in recent times. The result for the Since these are questions of come. After all, it’s not just monarchy has also been dismal: momentous importance for the journalists who need Radio having been spurned by everyone future of many generations of Sagarmatha and the who matters, the king has been Nepalis, why should a few dozens of other citizens’ reduced to visiting middling political leaders elected many media across the country officials in grossly under- years ago and the wielders of but the people who reported visits to African guns decide among themselves depend on them to be countries. What sense do these what that future should be? Let informed. And that, visits make anyway? the people decide and let the obviously, is what But who should decide? The leaders who have always scares this regime the most. people. They should be given a pronounced in the name of the chance to decide how they wish people have the courage to to be ruled. After all, democracy empower them do so. PrecursorsSUBHAS RAI to peace What does it matter that the pact was done in Delhi and not Ngorongoro? ur hardcore royalist chums are of them are active behind the scenes to monarchy in the country. have been reaching out to their rural working up a frenzy over the fact sabotage the first tangible step taken In the absence of their chairman, royal constituencies for the first time in six O that the 12-point pact between the towards getting the Maoists to abandon nominees in the council of ministers years. Unlike rented crowds that were Maoists and the seven-party alliance was armed struggle and bring them into the looked somewhat confused. Garrulous ones bussed in to cheer the king at district reached in New Delhi rather than at the political fold. like Ramesh Nath Pandey and Tanka headquarters, these people have turned up Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. Perhaps An unseen ‘Foreign Hand’ is Dhakal have proclaimed the pact an despite roadblocks at great personal risk. they believe everyone must share King ominously mentioned, the implied ‘unholy’ alliance. Kirti Nidhi Bista was The people seem to want to forgive the Gyanendra’s penchant for exotic locales.
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