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290 17 - 23 March 2006 16 Pages Rs 30 #290 17 - 23 March 2006 16 pages Rs 30 SPRING WONDERLAND: Tengboche Monastery on Tuesday after heavy snowfall blocked trekking routes in the Khumbu stranding tourists during what should have been the beginning of DEAL the spring trekking season. RAJENDRA DAHAL hen King Gyanendra flew back from Pokhara on Thursday for the weekly cabinet meeting and an audience with a visiting W Chinese official he must have looked down and seen the deserted Prithbi Highway. The Maoist blockade has brought the kingdom to a complete standstill while the parties and Maoists patch up their differences in New Delhi. After some initial confusion, the seven party alliance and the Maoists have come to a deal. It just needs the stamp of approval from a meeting of party leaders on Friday after which the Maoists are expected to lift their blockade and retract the indefinite shutdown planned from 3 April. In return, the parties promise to intensify this month a ‘people’s movement’ for a constituent assembly. The central committees of the seven parties were meeting late into Thursday to discuss this formula Editorial p2 but even the most sceptical of the lot (the Deuba Leaping the maze Congress and the NWPP) were said to be onboard. The 12-point agreement has been boiled down to seven and will be signed on Friday in Kathmandu. But some party seniors are worried the pact is fraught with dangers. "We are riding two horses–one is the king and the other is the Maoists," confided one, "and they are galloping in opposite directions." In secret talks in New Delhi, mistrust between the parties and rebels was ironed out and the parties appear to have convinced the comrades that the compromise formula is the only path to the mainstream. In the midst of negotiations, Prachanda had to douse home fires and expel two central committee members after an unsuual public display of disunity. That immediate crisis seems to be over but Home Minister Kamal Thapa’s offer on Tuesday of amnesty and rewards to defectors NAVIN SINGH KHADKA may be counterproductive if it would hardens the beleaguered rebels. Meanwhile, King Gyanendra’s strategy seems to be to ride it out till the monsoon washes away the people’s enthusiasm for a movement. And he is also trying to chip away at New Delhi’s opposition by lobbying with Indian kinglets, the Hindu right and some of his grandfather's old buddies. Also meaningful is the presence in Kathmandu this week of former Indian ambassador K V Rajan who is said to be lobbying for the palace in New Delhi. However, these efforts may be cancelled out by Chinese State Councillor Tang Jianxuan on Friday, who is expected to convey Beijing’s message that it is worried about instability in Nepal if the king keeps to his roadmap. Weekly Internet Poll # 290 Q... Who do you think has committed more human rights violations? Total votes:6,771 Weekly Internet Poll # 291. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com Q... If an election for a constituent assembly were to be held now what system would you vote for? Press Freedom for Peace and Democracy SUBSCRIBERS Did your paper arrive on time this morning? If not, call our Complaints Hotline 9851054729 and talk to Santosh Aryal. 2 EDITORIAL 17 - 23 MARCH 2006 #290 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 advertising@himalmedia.com Subscription: subscription@himalmedia.com Hatiban, Godavari Road, Lalitpur Psychopaths and sycophants editors@nepalitimes.com, GPO Box 7251, Kathmandu Tel: 5543333-6, Fax: 5521013 www.nepalitimes.com Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hatiban: 5547018 To find out why Nepal is stuck, we may need to psychoanalyse our political leadership LEAPING THE MAZE The crisis in Nepal is now so knotted up it’s hard to figure out head s a psychiatrist it isn’t There are more than a dozen receive universal acceptance and or tail of what’s going on. difficult to categorise the types of personality disorders. approval and characterises the Nepal’s Maoists always said they were following Mao Zedong A personality types of King Narcissists have grandiose sense personalities of the king, G P by the book. Now, it looks like they are even trying to copy the Gyanendra, GP Koirala, MK of self-importance and demand Koirala and several other Cultural Revolution. The Gang of Two, Rabindra Shrestha and Mani Nepal, Dr Tulsi Giri, or for that constant attention and they meet personalities. Thapa (Anukul), came out on Wednesday with an unprecedented matter Comrades Prachanda and criticism with indifference and Joining the royal government and scathing criticism of the party to set up their ‘New Cultural Baburam. Doing so may actually rage. Those with paranoid with a view that regression has Revolution Group’. This brought an immediate counter-salvo from help us psychoanalyse this personalities are preoccupied been corrected only to wake up the The Fierce One himself, accusing the two of being ‘traitors and nation and its leadership which with issues of trust and are next morning to realise the truth slaves of counter-revolutionaries’. But what is of interest is that in turn could provide us with reluctant to confide in others. and regret earlier moves exemplify both accuse each other of selling out to the royalists. clues about what is wrong with They tend to dwell into hidden people with borderline Other contradictions abound. Peace activist Krishna Pahadi the country. meanings of comments and events personality disorders. How who has probably been the most critical among our human rights and carry grudges throughout life. can your principles be so unstable, wallahs about Maoist atrocities is in detention for ‘inciting violence’. GUEST COLUMN Unstable is the word to describe swinging like a pendulum Civil society activist and anti-corruption campaigner Devendra Raj borderline personality type as between the extremes of Shyam Chalise Pandey who has consistently campaigned for restoration of peace their behaviour and self-image are constitutional monarchy and and democracy is still locked up. Meanwhile, this country’s all unstable. They use splitting as complete republican state within greatest war-mongers are in positions of power. Some general features of a defense mechanism in which days? And what of Ram Chandra Poudel of the NC, one of the most personality disorders afflicting everything is evaluated as two Lack of trust, failing to respect vocal proponents of reconciliation between the king, parties and the 10-15 percent of the general extremes there is no room for each other’s existence and looking Maoists? He has been behind bars now for nearly two months. population seems to be much anything intermediate. for hidden motives and Meanwhile, those who have vowed never to allow the parties and more prevalent among the People with personality perspectives of every activity are the king to come together are senior flunkies in the royal regime. In country’s political leadership at disorders are like a clocks that no ubiquitous features of a paranoid fact, the biggest paradox of all is that both Vice-chairman Tulsi Giri present. Such people are longer work: it still gives you the personality type and is probably and Prachanda see completely eye to eye on one thing: never inflexible, maladaptive and have right time at least twice a day. the most prevalent disorder among allow the constitutional forces to patch up. only one way of responding to a Interpersonal relationships Nepali political figures. What’s going on here? Who is on whose side? given situation. It is reflected in form an important issue in people The royal regime dismissed the Ironically, the people most worried by the present slide into all areas of life and is life-long, with personality disorders because unilateral ceasefire called by the absolute anarchy and prolonged conflict are this country’s and the patients are born with the of what we in the trade call ‘ego- Maoists, saying it was a ploy to staunchest monarchists. If even they have come to the conclusion syndrome they don’t acquire it. syntonic’ effects. They think regroup. Then it attacked the rebel- that the mandales are nothing is wrong with them, it is party pact saying it was addressed taking the country down the others with the problem and at the parties and not themselves. with them, then that must thus they seek to change the Meanwhile, the parties are be what is happening. world, not themselves. unwilling or are pretending to The regime’s strategy These personality types exist avoid reconciliation with the king is to sow confusion to buy in the general population but if suspecting he might use them to time. But the palace is they are clustered in the arena of provide legitimacy to his rule. lost in a maze of its own politics they tend to distort There is a lack of trust and extreme creation and the generals society’s functioning. That is paranoia on the part of the regime are in the same labyrinth. when the result is irrational, which hides a deep-seated hunger How can we leap this chaotic, undemocratic and for authoritarian rule. maze? By supporting a indecisive as we see in To untangle ourselves from the return to democracy as a Nepali politics. political and social impasse the path to sustainable The interpretation by the king first step is to detect the above peace-building. And if the and his cohorts that the Maoists personality disorders prevalent in warmongers can’t help are terrorists, and the futile claims all political players to be followed slaughtering each other, by the rebels that a majority of the by thorough psychiatric to force them to leave country is under their control are counselling.
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