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503 21 - 27 May 2010 16 Pages Rs 30 #503 21 - 27 May 2010 16 pages Rs 30 KIRAN PANDAY KILLING TIME: “Isn’t it time, comrade?” “We’ve got all the time in the world. It’s a historical necessity.” Running on empty espite hopes of a In short, everyone is jockeying out of patience. In the breakthrough, the last to get into the best position cantonments, ex-combatants Dweek saw our politicians possible. This is nothing new, of spend their days, as they entangling themselves further in course. While all is not lost (and have every day of the last each other’s interests. Even the we can expect the Constituent four years, playing games, proposed extension of the Assembly to be duly extended), patrolling, and idling the time Constituent Assembly, the tenure this indicates that every step away. It’s testimony to their of which is due to expire on 28 towards the conclusion of the mental discipline that they May, has not been approved. The peace process will be fraught appear committed to the change fact that such an extension is in with such wrangling and they were taught to believe in. If the acknowledged interests of compromises. only their leaders could show us majorities within all three major The Nepali people are a they feel the same. parties (not to mention the patient lot. But it’s not just the Over two thousand years ago, PLA speaks Shaktikhor’s residents want nation as a whole), yet still fails May Dayers and Peace Assemblers the Buddha said, “Everything dignity above all to go through, tells us something of the nation who are running changes, nothing remains about the mindset of the players without change.” With a week to p15 involved. go before Buddha Jayanti and the deadline for the constitution, Chakravyuha Nepalis have to believe that he Our netas squirm into was right. battle positions p3 2| 21 - 27 MAY 2010 #503 PUBLISHER’S NOTE temporary cessations of hostilities: an opportunity to drafting committees had to tackle the nuts and bolts of THE BUDDHA’S MESSAGE regroup and recharge. They have never wavered from their the future statute, and are clear to see with the end goal of declaring a totalitarian people’s republic, deadline for the constitution approaching. Here we go round in circles again. Like a game of employing Gang of Four methods. There are two ways to break this stalemate: go musical chairs, it seems our political players won’t stop For their part, the political parties have also not given back to war or negotiate in good faith. Since the first until someone is left standing. It is a dangerous zero- up on their aim of preserving liberal democracy. For option is unthinkable for the Nepali people and neither sum game, and a needless one, because we could very parties that believe in non-violence and pluralism, the first side has the stomach to fight, they have to talk. The easily have a win-win for all sides, and for the country. priority was to stop the war. Only then could an open Maoists are willing to test the boundaries of how far If we take a step back from the see-saw of daily society, the rule of law, an independent judiciary and a free they can go with the threat of a return to war, and that headlines that sway from ’Parties Near Agreement’ to market have a hope of surviving. was why they punished the people with an indefinite ‘Gap Between Parties Widens’ you can see why In this contest, it should be fairly easy for the friends of strike. They still think that a show of might and a hint this is happening. As we noted in this space as far back democracy and freedom to decide which side they are on. of veiled violence will improve their bargaining as May 2006, we had a conflict that neither side won or Yet we see confusion, a romanticisation of violent position. lost, despite their claims. It was the Nepali people who revolution, and an effort to tolerate and excuse chronic In the week that is left before 28 May, the first order lost. The country was devastated and the people displays of Stalinistic despotism even by those who of business should be to extend the CA, reconstitute brutalised. should know better. the government and catch up with stuff we should have This is not a peace process anymore. What In hindsight, we could say the democratic parties gave done last year. It is symbolic that on the eve of the remains is a ceasefire, and a tenuous one. The Maoists away too much to the Maoists in 2006-7. But some of those constitution deadline we should be observing Buddha gave up the gun, but not their use of violence and concessions were necessary to keep the Maoists Jayanti. threats. They were forced to put the war into deep engaged, especially since their negotiators kept freeze because of a military stalemate and geopolitical threatening to pack up and go back to the jungle every pressure. In that sense, a section of the Maoist time things did not go their way. These differences were leadership views this ceasefire as it did previous sure to come out sooner or later, as they did when the Don’t kill the CA Maoists are rubbing their hands all will allow us to find the into a mainstream player cannot sympathisers in the international GUEST COLUMN with glee at the prospect of political consensus on power- happen as long as it has an army. community. Such duplicity does cashing in on the political sharing to be able to extend the CA It is also clear from public not build trust. Gagan Thapa vacuum and public anger if the and then get the peace process back Maoist pronouncements that the To be sure, it’s not just the CA is not revived. on track. The parties tried to find a constitution and peace process Maoists who are the obstacles. If the CA is dissolved, the ‘package deal’ that would include are sideshows for them. It is their There are plenty of problems in ithin the week that is peace process comes to a halt. In the peace process, constitution self-declared goal that first and the NC and UML too. But both are left in the life of the such a case those in the NC and and power-sharing. But it did not foremost is state power. The committed to the peace process W Constiuent Assembly UML who think they’ll benefit succeed because they were not Maoists haven’t given up their and constitution-writing, they (CA), there will either be an will be in for a rude shock. Those desire to come to power through can’t backtrack. They aren’t the attempt at euthanasia, or the who believe in the politics of the the gun, and as long as that is the ones threatening to go back to body will be rushed to the gun, of course, will rejoice. And case nothing else will fall into violence. Their future in this intensive care unit. Whatever if the country goes back to Dissolving place. Until the Maoists realise country will not be determined by happens, we should remember conflict, the two sides within that a federal, secular republican the gun, but by what they do here that this elected House Nepal will be fighting a proxy the CA Nepal will not be possible on to win the trust of the people. represents a desire for peace war for the national interests of would mean without liberal democracy and The only way forward is the among the people though a our big neighbours. pluralism, everything else is just transformation of the Maoists into national consensus. Let’s use the week before the officially empty talk. And therein lies the a mainstream party that plays by Since parliament will CA expires to chart a course post- knot that has tangled up the the rules, and the moral pressure continue to function for a few 28 May. Blaming CA members for inviting peace process. that the other parties can bring to days even after 28 May, one hears the past year is not going to get us There are so many bear on them. They may not be arguments that the CA should anywhere. The constitution is violence into contradictions in the Maoists’ able to agree on everything right just be allowed to lapse since the only going to work if the politics public statements and their away, but they must prolong the other organs of state will still are fixed first. The CA is not politics stands in the committees of the life of the CA and buy time to have legitimacy. That line of supposed to mend the politics of CA that there is no space here to resolve those issues later and offer thought may or may not have this country, it is supposed to negotiating in good faith. During list them all. Their idea of a the Maoists another chance to legal validity, but it is absurd give legitimacy to a political and after the Maoist strike, ‘peaceful’ strike is to brandish change. and unworkable. Some within agreement. But if we go on trying marathon meetings tried to khukuris and staves, their idea of the NC and UML seem to have to finish each other off, then the untangle the knots of army an agreement is to threaten Gagan Thapa is an NC CA member. surmised that a parliament constitution is going to be dead, integration, but there was a interlocutors with a fist.
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