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Nepali Times on Wednesday Night After the Maoist Labour Union Called Off the Forced Closure of Industries and a Compromise Was Reached #214 17 - 23 September 2004 20 pages Rs 25 Soaltee Crowne Plaza was ceremonially opened by a delegation of businessmen on Thursday morning after a month-long shutdown (from l-r): Sridhar Acharya of Godavari Village Resort, HAN’s Narendra Bajracharya, Soaltee’s General Manager Rajiv Malla, Rohini Thapalia of the Padma Shree Group and BK Shrestha of Radisson Hotel. MIN BAJRACHARYA Weekly Internet Poll # 154 Q. Did state security respond adequately during the riots of 1 September? Open Sesame As industries open in Kathmandu, India comes on strong against the rebels Total votes:898 Weekly Internet Poll # 154. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com NAVIN SINGH KHADKA Q. How would you characterise Prime Minister Deubas India visit? hat do the government Delhis support for Nepals promised a Kathmandu approach has so far been Wand the Maoist rebels fascist rulers. Analysts see a takeover are restless. The myopic and confusing. It chants have in common? They Maoist ploy to create an anti- blockade and the closure of the ideal of constitutional both play the India card against Indian wave to ride in order to industries backfired, and the monarchy while lending almost each other. bolster sagging support at home. rebels also have to contend total support to the kings One of the accomplishments Indian media has suddenly with accusations of fuelling authoritarian moves. Muni has of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur raised the alarm about Nepali the 1 September riots that a prescription: India must work Deubas India visit was to get Maoists, and this week it was destroyed the manpower as a behind-the-scenes India to agree that the Maoist awash with news of Maoist industry. facilitator for peace in Nepal. issue was a 'common security threats in Uttaranchal and Although Deuba came back Skeptics here are convinced threat'. Deuba came back supposed plans to unleash with a promise of Indian Indian support comes with emboldened enough to declare human bombs if India supports support, some think Nepal is strings attached, and say that he wanted to resolve the Kathmandu. They bombed a still not clear about what it instead of more military issue through talks, but was missionary school in Gorkha this wants to do. This is the time hardware what willing to use force if necessary. week and said it was to teach both sides should be focusing Nepal needs is Editorial p 2 His new-found confidence to India a lesson. They have also on the operational level, not for India to Never too late talk loudly as well as carry a big targeted Indian joint ventures. just about general policy arm-twist the Maoists into stick could have only come from But Indian military support issues, says political analyst negotiating. But New Delhi is assurances he got from Indian for the Royal Nepali Army is not Dhruba Kumar of Tribhuban also in a fix, as it doesnt want leaders. new, and New Delhi labelled University. to give the Maoists anti-Indian The Maoists have responded the Maoists terrorists long before Given the heightened ammunition to whip up public by breaking their three-year we did. So why are the rebels Indian role in tackling the support in Nepal. moratorium on anti-Indianism. angry now? rebels, it is interesting that Deuba may have begun the Every statement from Prachanda Analysts say the Maoists may even Indian analysts are not discussion in New Delhi, but these days is a tirade against have decided that it is do-or-die sure about where this is going. the Indians have surely left the reactionary Indian time. There have been Writes Nepal-watcher SD Muni nitty gritty for King Gyanendras expansionism, or berating New desertions, the cadre who were in Hindustan Times: Indias upcoming visit. l 2 EDITORIAL 17 - 23 SEPTEMBER 2004 #214 Published by Himalmedia Pvt Ltd, Chief Editor: Kunda Dixit Desk Editor: Jemima Sherpa Design: Kiran Maharjan Web: Bhushan Shilpakar Advertising: Sunaina Shah [email protected] Subscription: Anil Karki, [email protected] Sanchaya Kosh Building, Block A-4th Floor, Lalitpur GPO Box 7251, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: 01-5543333-6, Fax: 01-5521013 [email protected], www.nepalitimes.com Jatra of arson Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hatiban: 01-5547018 Three of our freedoms were attacked on September First NEVER TOO LATE n 1 September, marauding agencies ostensibly to protest in which ghiu is used to stoke mobs attacked three of the the treachery of these the fire and purify the here is conflict in every society. Some are better at resolving them through O most fundamental companies, but really against offerings. Burning is a form of T public debate in parliament or through the media. Others let grievances accumulate, let neglect pile up, until the disaffection of a desperate people freedoms of people in a the right to practice ones violence often practiced in can be channelled into violence by some for their own political ends. democratic society: the freedom business. They burnt cars on their rituals and transferred to The violence then becomes a vicious spiral that breeds more desperation to practice religion (and have a the road and stopped traffic. secular purposes. and violence, until it goes out of control. The Maoists launched their revolution different religious identity), the These and other freedoms, There is another more when democracy was still young and hadn’t yet had the chance to iron out its kinks. Their credo was Mao’s doctrine of a political shortcut through the physical freedom to express and transmit such as rights to education violent form of sacrifice, elimination of class enemies. In this, our comrades consider themselves the opinion (however radical or and to life, have been known as bali, where animals vanguard of an international movement to showcase a successful revolution in assaulted for many years by are slaughtered as offerings to the 21st century. GUEST COLUMN different groups and by fierce deities, to appease them One of the roots of this conflict is that 1990 itself was an incomplete different means. But and ask for boons. Such revolution and a squandered opportunity to set things right. The biggest Rajendra Pradhan disappointment was the venal fecklessness of many elected leaders who let the September First was probably sacrifices are practiced by people down and never owned up. regressive they may be) and the the first time in Nepali history many Hindus but also by How can we ensure accountability when tainted figures seem to have no freedom to earn a livelihood and that they have been practitioners of other problem returning to public office through the ballot? The resolution of the current own property. In targeting these simultaneously targeted. religions, such as Muslims and conflict offers us the opportunity to address this defect in our polity. Not to go freedoms, the rule of law was Why were these materials animists. The victims are true back to the absolutism of Panchayat or a Maoist dystopia, but to make the necessary changes so that rulers are accountable and democracy can deliver. also attacked. symbols of freedoms burnt? scapegoats, representing all The extreme left and right both want to drastically rewrite the constitution, These freedoms were Someone in one of the furious anger and evil forces in and the centrists are going along with it because they are competing to sound literally and figuratively burnt mobs was heard shouting that society and thus are to be more radical. Rather than throw the book out, our politicians would do well to in public rituals. They burnt anyone who was against the ritually killed to vanquish analyse what made them so unaccountable when they were in power, and fix that mosques, airlines owned by vandalism were anti- them. first. Instead of launching another even more decisive agitation against Muslim countries and even a nationalists. In burning, were Extremists in Iraq and ‘regression’, agitated leaders should be thinking about how they can help forge a beauty parlour with a Muslim they performing nationalistic elsewhere seem to have multipartisan consensus on peace building. And for that peace to last, how to name. They burnt and rituals, which in Nepals case transferred this form of create 500,000 new jobs a year so that young Nepalis don’t have to go to Iraq vandalised the office buildings, (the only Hindu kingdom in sacrifice to human beings, by out of sheer desperation and end up as economic martyrs. How to collectively equipment and vehicles of two the world) were Hindu ones? slicing off the heads of ensure governance so that the people have affordable health care and education. It is this country’s tragedy that for far too long, we have had the wrong media houses and journalists. Fire is an important enemies. Back at home, our people at the right places. Conflict resolution is about compromise and sharing They destroyed the offices and medium in Hinduism, used own Maoists have been doing power, and it is never too late to start doing that. documents of recruitment for purification and the the same. These actions central element of the fire parody and inverse the sacrifice (hom or yagya), meaning of ritual sacrifices. In where offerings of food grains burning the symbols of and other items are made to citizens freedoms, it seemed the fire god, Agni, to be as if the mobs were transmitted to all deities and combining elements and L ETTERS security personnel to protect the the international press on Nepal’s mosques and other buildings. I plight. Your sensitive coverage of come from Chhetrapati and I have the pogrom against Kathmandu’s a lot of Nepali Muslim Friends, I Muslim minority had the have always admired their perspective of the small people tolerance and generosity.
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