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277 16 - 22 December 2005 16 Pages Rs 30 #277 16 - 22 December 2005 16 pages Rs 30 NARESH NEWAR in NAGARKOT Weekly Internet Poll # 277 Q... What do you think of the new council of he festival was in full swing ministers appointed by the king? on Wednesday night at the Total votes:4,867 T Kali Debi temple on the eve of the full moon. Up to 300 people were offering prayers, others were COLD BLOOD dancing to blaring pop music. It was ten at night and Soni Sita Gurung was selling fruits in her Weekly Internet Poll # 278. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com small shop. Sujan Shrestha, Q... Is it right for the main political parties receptionist of Club Himalaya to boycott municipal and general elections? resort, was there with his friends. Tsiring Lama was watching the people from a terrace. Suddenly, members of the feared Pipalbot gang and Sgt Basudeb Thapa from Nagarkot got into a fight. They had a history of enmity and both were drunk. The ruffians from Pipalbot village were notorious for bullying villagers. They started beating up Sgt Thapa, who took out a knife and slashed one of them before driving off. When Soni Gurung saw Sgt Thapa return, he had a gun but she didn’t think much of it. By this time, the Pipalbot gang had fled. But Sgt Thapa walked up to the temple’s wall and started firing Sita Nagarkoti, waits to claim her husband's body outside the morgue in Bhaktapur on Thursday. with his INSAS assault rifle. The Kali Debi temple in Nagarkot and a cap with a bullet hole. Soni saw Sujan Shrestha get a bullet in his stomach. Others also fell, killed or wounded, and there was a blind stampede. When the shooting stopped, Basudeb was dead. Some eyewitnesses said he shot himself, while some think he was shot by another soldier. Of the 12 dead, three were women, one of them hit in the head as she knelt to pray. At least 19 were injured, KIRAN PANDAY three of them women and five Twelve hours after the for them. At Bhaktapur Cancer former chief justice, announcing children. incident, when we reached the Hospital where the 12 bodies were a Rs150,000 compensation to Sita Nagarkoti, was sitting at temple the flagstones were still lined up, the mood was angry. next of kin. Members of the UN’s home when she heard the gunfire. caked with dried blood, bullet Villagers shouted slogans calling Office of the High Commissioner She ran to the temple where her holes riddled the prayer flags, the soldiers ‘terrorists”. Some for Human Rights and the NHRC husband Ram Lal Nagarkoti had there was a red cap with a bullet were carrying party flags and the were also at the site Thursday to gone to pour mustard oil on the hole lying on a sack soaked with slogans were getting politicised. investigate. lamps. When she found him he blood. The army, for once, swiftly Contrary to first reports, what was already dead with three bullet Villagers who had been went into damage control mode. happened at the Kali Temple on wounds. The Nagarkotis have a victims of the ruffians wanted them The Home Ministry to set up a Thursday night was a gang fight 12-year-old daughter. caught, and the army was hunting civilian investigation led by a gone tragically wrong. z 2 EDITORIAL 16 - 22 DECEMBER 2005 #277 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 Rebuilding democracy www.nepalitimes.com Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hatiban: 5547018 There is need for an international guarantee MONKEY WRENCH forest user group in Rolpa this is the feat that disgruntled made in the build up to the If anyone needed a reminder of the hair-trigger situation the country is recently withdrew the few politicians have been trying to popular uprising in 1990. in two weeks before the Maoist ceasefire ends, the Nagarkot carnage Athousand rupees it had in a repeat without success. These politicians now confess is it. This is what happens when a country slides towards Libang bank and bought To add to their woe, one or having “made mistakes” but, militarisation and the state’s security apparatus ends up alienating the polythene pipes. It wasn’t more of their constituents addicted as they have been to very people it was set up to protect. immediately necessary, so why occasionally allowed minting money, they stop short Wednesday night’s heinous slaughter of innocents may have been an isolated act by a soldier running amok. But it is yet another blot on did they buy pipes? Just a few themselves to be lured away by of proving to the people how the RNA’s dismal human rights record. This time the army reacted days earlier a neighbouring forest ministerial berths. It was they wont be corrupt again. And swiftly with a statement providing full details and promising an group had lost all its Rs 40,000 indeed this obsession with with the same tainted faces investigation. It needs to make sure there is no coverup this time and savings to Maoist extortion. money and power during the around, people refuse to converge that the families of the dead and wounded are properly and promptly Converting cash to pipe was a dozen years of their on Ratna Park and have withheld compensated. Otherwise the public’s worst fears, that something is hedge against plunder. incumbency that devastated the support despite the parties seriously rotten in the army’s discipline and morale, will be confirmed. country and birthed the Maoist referring to themselves as All we can hope for now is that nothing will derail the movement towards peace that began with the party-rebel pact. The Pink Palace GUEST COLUMN rebellion. The silent majority “representative political parties” has two choices: to build on the agreement or to wreck it. Bihari K Shrestha felt relieved when King in the 12-point pact. To turn the Maoist MoU with the parties into a tripartite agreement Gyannedra stepped in on 1 With no help coming from and steer the country back to peace, stability and development would February. the Nepali people, the politicians be the right path. But the royal regime appears to take the agreement Such episodes are far from Indeed, the compulsion for went a-begging in India only to as a direct threat. Going by his track record over the past three years, uncommon. So much for the the politicians to make money play right into the hands of the the king thinks he can ride this out and even seems to be working on a ‘popular support’ the Maoists are was hardwired into the kind of Maoists. But judging by their parallel deal with the Maoists. For a brief moment last week we were almost tempted to be supposed to have even in their ‘democracy’ we adopted. Given utterances lately, they seem to be optimistic after seeing the new faces in the reshuffled cabinet. In proclaimed heartland. Despite the widespread illiteracy and having second thoughts and Singha Darbar’s vast corridors of mediocrity, Kesar Bahadur Bista, the recent Maoist-seven party poverty votes were bought in itseemed they just wanted to use Kamal Thapa and Narayan Singh Pun stand out as doers. You may deal, therefore, the rebels have yet winner-takes-all elections. This Maoist bogey to scare the king not agree with them but they are not the shrill sycophants we are used to win the hearts and minds of forced most politicians to to seeing. And because Pun was the architect of the 2002 peace the people. resort to corruption, despite process with the Maoists, there was speculation the royal regime was One logic of the 1990 People’s the sacrifices many of them finally responding, albeit indirectly, to the initiative taken by the parties and the Maoists towards peace. Movement was that once Ratna But the pronouncements that the new ministers have made in their Park is filled with agitating first week in office indicate their terms of reference are solely to Kathmanduites regime change conduct municipal elections. What a waste of talent to have these follows. For the last three years, guys as just window-dressing for a showcase poll and put them in charge of a demoralised bureaucracy already micro-managed by royal cronies. With time running out on the one-month ceasefire extension and after the Nagarkot incident, the palace needs to respond positively to the party-rebel agreement and tighten the bolts on a tripartite peace process. A monkey wrench can be used to put a spanner in the works but it is really meant to be a tool to fix things. LLL ETTERS CRAZY is unlikely that Tiwari’s the disagreement payoffs (ie: what magazine 15 months ago. With Bearded One famously said: “As Although Ashutosh Tiwari’s recommendations will be useful. each party gets if negotiations hindsight, after my irritation far as I know, I am not a Marxist!” attempt in his Strictly Business (They may even be counter- break down)–tells us that because subsided, I realised that the His egalitarian Marxian critique column to apply game theory to productive.) the parties do not receive much in content of the quote was indeed still has points of usefulness for the political gridlock between the Second, Tiwari accuses the a stalemate or breakdown of talks, ‘eternal’, although the context in the Greens and the Blues in King, the Maoists and the parties of ‘never pose[ing] a they do not have many bargaining which it was stated needs converting the globalised world political parties (‘Crazy as a credible threat to the palace and chips to work with.
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