Long
Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Prachanda Path!
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(This is an appeal of the Communist Party of
COMMUNIST PARTY OF
CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
An
Appeal
Representing a new era of rebellion against the exploitation and
oppression of feudalism and imperialism for the emancipation of Nepal and
Nepalese people, the people’s war initiated under the leadership of the CPN
(Maoist), the glorious representative of Nepalese proletariat, after completing
its ten years, has entered into the eleventh one on February 13, today. This
people’s uprising of one decade has not only unfolded multi-dimensional and
far-reaching impact but also has provided a new momentum of study, debate and
inspiration for the masses fighting against the exploitation, oppression,
intervention and terror of the globalize imperialism, mainly the
Today, the Nepalese society is advancing ahead towards the last
juncture of its transition to republic from the absolute feudalism. A tiny
coterie of moribund feudal elites is exhibiting its last stupidity of unleashing
the reign of terror with the force of its traditional military gang upon the 25
million Nepalese people and the world opinion. In order for building an
environment, in which the aspiration of democracy and peace of the Nepalese
people could be fulfilled peacefully without a big loss of lives and property,
our party, in the dawn of the eleventh anniversary of the people’s war, had
declared a unilateral ceasefire and had even built up, during this period, a
12-point understanding with the major parliamentarian political parties of the
country. On the contrary, the criminal gang of feudal elites, who do not share
even a slight of responsibility towards the country and people, not only
mistrusted it but continued making it a matter of laugh and shame for the
civilized people in the twenty-first century by imprisoning thousands of
democracy-loving people and staging a drama of election within the army camps.
The insanity of Gyanendra Shahi, who oddly underrated the living reality, in
which the wave of people’s higher level of military and peaceful resistance was
going on, as isolated events, has surprised the world opinion. How a tiny clique
of feudal and its traditional hoodlum, the “Royal Army” has been able to sustain
despite of all-round opposition of the people in and outside of the country? The
question is very serious and notable. Based on the experiences of history and
the present course of events, our party has concluded that, despite of crocodile
tears, the
In spite of the aforesaid situation, our party believes that none
will now be able to prevent the success of the democratic movement of Nepalese
people, who are conscious to their democratic right. The hidden support of the
US military commander at the moment, when a great campaign of the Nepalese
people for establishing competitive democracy that aims at institutionalizing
the right of all the masses of oppressed class, nationality, region and sex by
holding constituent assembly election and reorganizing the state power, which
has already gained support from the world opinion and international community,
will not be able to help survive the Gyanendra Shahi clique. It is definite that
the upcoming thrust of the Nepalese people will lead the feudalism to an end and
a new chapter of democracy, peace and progress in
Finally, I would like to appeal to all class, nationality, region,
sex, and especially the youths associated with all the political parties, to
institutionalize forever the aspiration of democracy, peace and progress of the
Nepalese people by grasping the reality that no absolute feudalism will be
destroyed without correct fusion of peaceful and military resistance. Only a new
army of democracy and peace, with youth thunder, will ascertain the progress of
new
Prachanda
Chairman
CPN (Maoist)
Message to the
Communist Party of
FROM THE COMMITTEE OF
THE REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT (RIM)
On
The revolution
in
The revolution
is nearing the historic point of nationwide victory, but this will only
intensify the desperate ploys of the reactionaries to combine honeyed words of
democracy with vicious attempts to drown the will of the people in blood. At
this critical juncture in the revolution, it is more important than ever that
the communists and the revolutionary-minded people the world over play their
necessary role. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement salutes you and
pledges our continuing efforts to build support for the People’s War in
Comrades, we are confident that the same revolutionary daring and scientific confidence that led to launching the People’s War will enable you to navigate the stormy waters ahead. No doubt new obstacles will appear and new sacrifices will be required, but by continuing to firmly base yourselves on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and by flexibly applying these principles to the complexities of the class struggle a New Democratic Nepal can emerge and brighten the whole world.
Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Message to the
Communist Party of
FROM Communist
Mazdoor Kissan Party
(Communist
Workers-Peasants Party Pakistan-CMKP)
This message was sent by Ejaz
Ghani, General Secretary of Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party
There are a very few certain significant events
when formalities cease to communicate the exact spirit and real meaning. So, we
find no appropriate words to express our feelings on your spectacular
achievements of the most inspiring revolutionary struggle for ten years. We feel
we are with you in the celebrations as mark of solidarity. However, the
revolutionary waves sweeping across
This rejoicing occasion of celebrations of the
tenth years of a prolonged struggle emboldens and infuses in us a pride to
extend our warmest and heartiest felicitations to you. Your path to revolution
will, obviously, help intensify the anti-imperialist struggle in our region for
the transformation of society from class-ridden to classless one. The gigantic
march of the CPN (M) is a logical outcome of the creative application of the
scientific Leninist methodology and Maoist principles of revolution in our
imperialist-dominated region has also played an important role, the intensity of
which is getting enhanced after the demise of the Cold War. This phenomenon has
emerged on the politico-ideological horizon of
The tactics applied by the CPN (M) to overthrow
monarchy for the democratization of Nepalese society have actually led to the
mobilization of the people in real sense of the term, sidelining other parties,
which clamour for democracy for the name sake. This is a first Marxist-Leninist
movement in our region, that is most organized, inspiring the people to be in
the mainstream of scientific process. In addition, Maoist creative practice of
revolution in this part of the world has helped bear fruit. Though the
apprehension of Western imperialist intervention led by the
On the pattern of Revolutionary International
Movement (RIM), we whole-heartedly support what you have put forward your
strategy: " The necessity of developing the concept of South Asian Soviet
Federation in the 21st century to concept of World Federation and waging every
country's national liberation, democratic and socialist movement …"
In the backdrop of your dedication to the cause
of revolution through People's War, which is destined to engulf whole of our
region, as it is the only scientific method to succeed, we take an opportunity
to congratulate you once again and other heroic comrades of your party on the
celebrations of ceaseless revolutionary struggle for ten years. Meanwhile, we
also pay glowing tributes and give our red salute to the comrades who martyred
themselves for the revolutionary cause in order to set up socialist system in
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INTERVIEW |
WE
ARE FIGHITING FOR THE RIGHTS OF POOR NEPALESE PEOPLE
(This is an exclusive
interview with Chairman Comrade Prachanda, by Charles Haviland for BBC World,
which was telecast worldwide on
Question:
Chairman Prachanda - your war is 10 years old now. The economy is in ruins.
Tourism is way down. Rural poor have fled their homes and live in terror. And
13,000 people are dead. It's been a disaster hasn't it?
Answer: We've certainly never said it was good.
When we started a people's revolution, we tried to advance the Nepali people's
needs and the society's needs in a peaceful way. Everyone knows when we were in
parliament, following its processes, we put forward 40 demands so that the
problems of Nepalis would be solved in a peaceful way. But, when the ruling
classes and the feudalists were not ready to solve the problems of Nepalis
peacefully, and instead started victimising our party workers and people who
supported us in a brutal and illegitimate fashion, they compelled us and the
Nepali people to take up arms. That doesn't mean we are happy about 13,000
people being killed. For sure, we are saddened by it. But the responsibility
doesn't lie with us. It lies with a small clique of privileged class who want to
keep
Question: Let's talk about the "feudal and
aristocrats". You say that they are your biggest enemies. Fine, they are sitting
safe, mainly in
Answer: It is not true. In history, wherever
there has been a revolutionary movement, when people's movement moves forward -
in the process of revolution, a clique of feudal elements will be staying within
the fortification of the army. They will stay in there until their end comes but
in the end, revolution will, as seen by history, destroy the feudal elements and
in the end, these elements will have to come to the people's court and be tried.
We believe that in the near future, these elements will be in the people's court
and will be tried by the people. When the revolution begins, they will be
staying within the army barracks and army protection and so they will not be the
ones caught at the beginning. History has always shown this.
Question: One reason that people
including the Americans are scared of you is that they have a nightmare vision -
a Maoist takeover, conquering and entering
Answer: What
Question: So you think you can conquer
Answer: We are not only talking about militarily.
I believe we can, and we have to conquer
Question: You say politically. Does that
mean in fact you don't really expect to be able to conquer the capital
militarily?
Answer: When we started the people's revolution
and when we first attacked the feudal elements' Royal Army, we believed that we
could conquer
Question: So you're saying that in
today's world you don't think it would possible to take the capital city
militarily?
Answer: It is possible. But in today's situation
it would cause a lot of harm to the Nepali people. That's why we like the
political solution better. And we are working towards it.
Question: You signed an agreement in
Answer: We are always ready for peace, and when
we started the people's war, after a while we said that if the ruling classes
would want to peacefully solve the problems of Nepali people, we were ready.
Now, in the agreement with the parties, we are still saying that if there is an
environment where people can give their own verdict, through an election of a
constituent assembly, where people have a voice on the kind of governance that
they want, if that right is with the people, then we are ready to have a
political competition with the parties. And this is the truth.
Question: This in fact your main
political demand - an elected assembly to draw up a new constitution. If that
elected assembly drew up a constitution that kept
Answer: We have said that there should be a
democratic republic in
Question: Does that mean you would
theoretically be able to accept a people's verdict of keeping the
monarchy?
Answer: Yes, theoretically it is like that. But
we believe that people would not give that kind of verdict in the current
situation. That is our faith and belief and whatever you can say, we are ready
to follow the people's verdict. That would mean that ideologically if the people
want that, we will follow that. But we believe that the people's version will be
for a democratic republic.
Question: Does that mean you could
imagine yourself or someone from your party actually serving as prime minister
under King Gyanendra?
Answer: If such a situation arises, if you ask me
personally I am not ready. But personal choice is not the main thing. The main
thing is following what the people's verdict is. Personally, we might not be
ready in situations like this, because we have been fighting for a republic. But
since we have already said that we will agree with the verdict of a constituent
assembly, we will surely agree to that.
Question: Now we are talking all about
the future. But violence is still escalating in
Answer: I believe that the total responsibility
for the escalating violence falls on the King and the royal army - on Gyanendra
and his royal army. To ensure that the minimum bloodshed is inflicted on Nepali
people, we had a four-month-long cease-fire. We have also been saying that we
would agree to whatever the verdict is of the constituent assembly. And we have
committed to accept multi-party competition. That's why, the way violence is
escalating in this country, the total responsibility falls on Gyanendra and his
royal army.
The
Nepali people understand this and the world has seen those who want peace and
democracy clearly. In the near future, this situation is not going to remain.
Nepali people are going to triumph and democracy is going to triumph.
Gyanendra-ism and his feudalistic clique will certainly be destroyed. He is
responsible. We also want to appeal to all everyone in the world who believes in
peace and democracy to speak out and stand up against the one who has been
shedding blood and killing people every day.
Question: Now you declared a ceasefire
for four months. If you were to repeat that but on a permanent basis, laying
down your arms tomorrow, this war would stop. Why not do that?
Answer: We are fighting for the rights of Nepali
people. As long as the royal army interferes with Nepali people's rights, as
long as they keep killing Nepali people, I mean, the feudal privileged class,
and that too an army loyal to a medieval royalty - are an obstacle to the Nepali
people.
It
is important that they be dismantled - not us. Nepali people are rebelling for
their rights. In us saying that we are ready, we mean, the royal army, who have
been oppressing Nepali people for 237 years, and are loyal to a small clique,
who have no loyalty to respect for democratic ideology - that army has to be
dismantled. Then only can the problem be solved. We are not the power that gave
birth to this problem. It is the King, his clique and his royal army. For a
peaceful solution of this problem, what we are saying is that both the armies
should be monitored by the UN or a similar organization and go to the people;
and that later they can be re-organized into a new Nepali army and that we are
ready for. That is why we are not the problem.
We
are not standing in the way of a peaceful solution. It is the King and his royal
army. Even within the royal army, we do not believe that the lower cadres and
officials of the army want the war to go on. It is a small clique of generals
who belong to the feudalistic privileged class, the Rana and Shah clans of
Question: For
Answer: We believe that once the Nepali people's
desire for a democracy is fulfilled, once there is peace and democracy in the
country, we will be ready to develop diplomatic relations with all nations of
the world - for the development of Nepali people, we are ready to receive their
support and we will be ready. But what we feel till now, and what experience has
shown us, is that
Question: So you could work with
Answer: We are not talking within the context of
the present government. If the so-called current government sitting in
Question: I want to ask you about
Answer: We do not have a working relationship
with the Maoists [in
Question: Some people have felt that you are
probably trying to export revolution throughout the subcontinent. Are you saying
that you are not?
Answer: Ideologically we want to move the global
revolution forward. We want to take the lessons from the positive and the
negative experiences of the 20th Century; from revolutions and
counter-revolutions of the 20th Century. Globally the suppressed classes should
get their rights, and that's what we want. But in practical terms we do not
believe that one country's army should go to the other country and fight for it.
Ideologically we do want there to be a revolution in the
Question: Fighting a war is very expensive.
If your supporters are mainly in poor rural parts of
Answer: We are certainly fighting for the rights
of poor people in
Question: What about money from elsewhere in the
South Asian region? Whether governments or individuals, maybe in your
neighboring countries?
Answer: It's been well established that no
government anywhere has financially supported our revolution and nor have they
supported us in material or military ways. This revolution has been supported
purely by Nepali people. So we have not been supported by anyone in terms of
military equipment or financially. This is a pure self-reliant revolution of the
Nepali people. This has been seen by the world and the world understands this.
We are proud that we are not in the hands of any international group. We are
free to make decisions for the betterment of the Nepali people, because we have
taken neither money nor arms from anyone.
Question: I want to ask you about your
vision of a future Nepali society. You have declared war on alcohol and
gambling. There have been reports of someone being shot for playing cards. You
want to outlaw "vulgar Hindi films". It sounds very puritanical.
Answer: We have experimented with different
things. But the vision that we see of the future
We
believed that and we still believe that. We also definitely want to eliminate
bad habits like alcohol and gambling from the villages. What we believe is that
in the 10 years of "People's Revolution", the roots of feudalism have been cut
off and there is a situation of freedom. Because of the war, people have
suffered. But if you go and look into the hearts of people in the villages, they
don't feel as exploited as they did yesterday. They feel self-respect. A poor
woman in a village with a gun, moving forward to build a new society, feels her
life as a woman has been elevated. In a village, there is respect even for the
poor. And the suppressed feel that they have a new life as human beings. We are
building new lives in these villages. You won't find exploitation and injustice
in villages, such as discrimination against dalits [the lowest castes]. And the
practice of "untouchability" has ended. There is a great feeling that all people
are equal. In this way we have been bringing sweeping changes to the villages.
And once the war is over, we believe that we can move forward and develop
economically or otherwise at a very fast pace.
Question: If you had such great support, why
would you need to use such violence? For example, you declared a strike last
week, forcing people to shut their businesses, not drive their vehicles, etc.
Your people in
Answer: The first thing is that we did not start
the violence. When we were in the parliament, in the district where we had the
maximum support, violence was used on the people by the royal army and the
police. They made the people compelled to revolt against it. When do we become
violent? Only when the rulers use violence on the people. Certainly, because we
have maximum support from people, we have been able to rebel against this.
Because we have vision, we have been able to rebel against it. As long as the
feudal autocrats do not stop killing the people, there will be a rebellion
against it. That rebellion is the right of the people. What we are saying is
that in the current situation of
Question: In this conflict your side, the
Maoists, have killed more children than the other side. Your bombs have killed
and maimed children. You have recruited children under 12. Isn't this something
to be ashamed of - the treatment of children?
Answer: In our party's central policy, we do not
have a policy of recruiting children. We do not even train children below 16
years old as militia. Accidentally children have been killed, and we are
saddened by that. But the situation does not match the account that the ruling
classes and the feudals have propagated. Children whose parents have been killed
in the war - taking care of them is the responsibility of the party. That's why
we are compelled to take care of, educate and provide work for hundreds of
children, even those who are 12 to 15 years old. This is a compulsion born out
of the war. This compulsion has been falsely portrayed by the feudal elements as
forced recruitment of children. As for children who have been accidentally
killed, we are deeply sad about it. We are trying our very best to ensure that
such accidents do not happen. We are doing our best, and this is the truth.
Question: But it's well known - anyone who has
seen the Maoist army knows that there are certainly children under 16 there.
That's the case, isn't it?
Answer: In village militias it might be true but
in the People's Liberation Army that's not the situation.
Question: You are a married man. You have four
children yourself, I imagine grown up by now. They had schooling. Yet, the
Maoists have closed schools - not only private ones but community ones as well.
Would you have wanted your children to have been deprived of education in that
kind of way?
Answer: Where have we closed down schools?
Schools are running and even with our own efforts, we are trying to open schools
and educate children. My children went to school when they were young and are
now in the movement.
Question: But I've been and visited people who are
no longer being educated because their schools have been closed
down.
Answer: A Since we are in a state of war,
certainly things has not moved the way that they should have been. That is why
we need to end the war and for this we need to defeat Gyanendra-ism, feudalism
and the royal army. When all people get together and triumph over the autocracy,
then only education could be provided in an organized way. As long as the
autocratic rule is committing atrocities on the people, till then war is going
to escalate and it would be difficult to systematize the education. Yet, even in
the situation of war, we are trying to ensure that schools are running and
education is possible.
Question: I've met families of people who have
been killed by the Maoists for allegedly supporting the army. Yet you know very
well that both sides force them to help them, to feed them. Isn't it wrong to
kill them on the basis of that so-called "evidence"?
Answer: The statement that we have forced people
to support us is not true. Because before we did not have an army and nor did we
have any weapons. We came forth because of people's support and help. It is not
possible therefore that we would use force on people. As for our enemies, the
feudal elements and the autocrats, after the rebellion started, there are
numerous incidents where they have raped women, torched houses and villages;
where the army has surrounded them and forced them to carry their luggage. All
these have been carried out by the feudalistic autocratic elements, not our
army. You might have heard this being propagated but the reality is different.
If you look at the villages, when there is a cessation of war, our People's
Liberation Army works in the fields of people, they work as labourers to build
roads for people - they have been doing all this work. That is why, to say that
our army uses force on people is totally untrue. In times of war, in difficult
circumstances, things might not work as planned and at times, even though we
might have wanted, we might not have managed to organize things the right way.
But in general, from our side, there has been and there will be no force on
people.
Question: I'm not sure you understood my
question. As I say, I've met families of people who have been killed by the
Maoists for allegedly supporting the army. That's what I want to ask about -
killing people on completely unjustified grounds.
Answer: We have not killed people or anyone when
army surrounds the village and forces people to support and help them. The
policy of our party is that informants of the army, the ones who work as spies,
and have committed the crime of killing people, then there would be action
against them. There is a policy to act against them. But there is no policy that
we kill people generally on the basis that they have helped the royal army.
Unfortunately, if such an incident does happen, we have been admitting to this
and publicly apologized for it. Whenever such a mistake is made and someone
loses their life outside of our policy, we have asked for a pardon from the
people.
Question: You've said, for instance after
an atrocity last June when Maoists bombed a bus, killing nearly 40 civilians and
a few soldiers - you said you were "sad and hurt" about that. Yet the UN office
in
Answer: I think you probably don't know this, but
after that incident at Madi when there was an explosion on the bus, we were
shocked beyond words. Our party workers who were involved in it, they were
expelled from the party and the army, and the report on how this expulsion was
carried out was given to the UN. We informed them about who was sentenced, who
had committed what crime, the nature of the crime, and the kinds of punishment
given to them. All this information was given.
Question: Sometimes you seem to say one
thing and do another. For instance, you told the UN that you would not attack
candidates from last week's municipal elections, but you did. Two of them got
killed. How can people believe you?
Answer: When we talked about it. I mean, there is
no difference is what we have been saying and what we have been doing. In the
circumstance, when we were in ceasefire, we had said that and even later, we did
not have a policy of physically harming any candidate. But there has been only
one incident - not two - according to the report that was given to our central
[committee] - in Janakpur - where a local worker of the party took
responsibility for the killing. We are investigating this. If we had wanted, we
could have killed many candidates. Because we did not have the policy of killing
them, they were not killed. Our party did not have a policy of killing them
because they are candidates. We are investigating on the incident of Janakpur
and this has been informed to the United Nations Human Rights office. That is
why there is no difference between what we say and what we do. As for an
informer of the royal army being a candidate, we might have a process of
capturing them and trying them in the people's court. As a candidate and an
informer of the royal army, if he has been responsible for killing people, the
party policy is to take action against him. It is important to understand these
two things correctly.
Question: What kind of
action?
Answer: Our policy is that if he is an informer,
we'd capture him, stand him in front of the people's court, and take action as
per the verdict of the court. Considering the degree of the crime, he could be
given a labour punishment for a certain time, or for a while kept under the
custody of people, and if the crime is big, he could even be executed. The party
policy is to follow this process.
Question: Do you have a timetable to lay
down your arms? Or a planned timetable?
Answer: We do not look at it in terms of a time
line. We see it in terms of policy. As soon as the people are given the right to
decide of their own fate and of their own future, we will be ready to lay down
our arms. But if the people are not given their rights, we are committed to and
are ready to fight till the end. That's why we cannot give a timetable on when
we can lay down our arms and when we would use them. As soon as people get their
rights, as soon as there is a possibility for a democracy, as soon as people can
make decisions on their own lives, then there is a possibility of laying down
our arms.
Question: More concretely, what needs to
happen for you to give up your arms? What's the bottom line, the minimum that
you need to give up your arms struggle?
Answer: We have already clearly said in our
12-point understanding with the parliamentary political parties, as soon as
there is a possibility of preparing a new constitution through a constituent
assembly, and form a new army; we are ready to call off the war. For now, the
bottom line is the agreement with the seven political parties.
Question: Do you believe in the
multi-party system or would you like your party to be the one party ruling
Answer: I am going to address this question very
seriously. Three years ago, at a Central Committee meeting of our party,
analyzing the experiences from 20th century communist states, we put forward a
proposal for the development of democracy. In the 21st century we cannot have a
state like those of the 20th century. That's why our Central Committee
unanimously passed this paper on the development of democracy in the 21st
century. The spirit of this paper is that there should be peaceful competition
between all political parties against feudalism and foreign imperialist forces.
And that there should be multi-party competition. Since then we have said that
within a certain constitutional provision multi-party competition [should exist]
as long as it's against feudalism, against foreign imperialistic interference
and all political parties can compete against each other. And this document was
unanimously passed three years ago in very clear terms. In the agreement that we
recently made with the political parties, we have clearly stated that we agree
to multi-party competition. What we have seen from the 20th century, and the
lessons that we have learnt from the experiences of the 20th century, a very
important question was - to understand the subject of democracy and dictatorship
we need to develop a new consciousness for this. And we have passed this. Our
opponents have understood us in a dogmatic way. We are not dogmatic but our
opponents are. They are looking at us with 20th Century glasses. But we are
already moving into the 21st Century. [We are looking at] the kind of state that
is possible in the 21st Century, how to give people the maximum possible rights;
how to organize competition; and how to guarantee that this competition does not
lead to oppression and suppression. In short, democracy and dictatorship....How
to make use of this conflict between them - we are developing on this. And from
this process of development, we have termed, development of democracy. People
think that our commitment to the multi-party competition is purely a tactic and
that we are trying to cheat someone. But in reality we have taken the experience
of an entire century, discussed it, analyzed it in our party, and we've come to
a conclusion that the development of democracy is necessary in the 21st Century.
That's why we take multi-party competition very seriously. We want to move
forward. Even in our understanding with the parties, we have said that we don't
want autocracy; that we have to crush the feudal autocracy that exists today. It
will never propagate multi-party competition. Events have proved this. Not only
now - four years ago, when the royal massacre happened, we saw that the feudal
autocracy was snatching away the rights that we gained in the 1990 democracy
movement. The parliamentary parties were also against the royal massacre. That's
why we appealed to the political parties to join us and build a platform, and
[we said] we are ready to compete with you, and the feudal autocracy was a
common enemy of ours and we should fight against it. And we have been talking
about multi-party competition since then. I strongly believe we need to
understand this clearly.
Question: Do you want to be leader of
this country? Head of state?
Answer: It depends on this political movement and
how the events proceed. Our movement is not for me to be the head of state. This
movement is to grant democratic rights to Nepali people and secure a better
future for them. It's not for me to be a head of state. If this movement goes on
and if the situation arises, then if need be, and if necessary for the Nepali
people, I am of course ready for it. But I also want to clarify that - from the
lessons of the 20th Century communist states - we want to move to a new plane in
terms of leadership - where one person doesn't remain the party leader or the
head of state. This discussion is going on within our party, on the subject of
leadership, how the leadership should develop; even after the state is captured,
how to institutionalize the subject of leadership and how to prepare new
leaders, how to prepare lakhs [hundreds of thousands] of successors to them.
What were the negative experiences of the 20th Century in which people who
should have been more powerful and should have had more rights, could not get
them? We are studying this. Why it could not happen during Stalin's time, how
much of this happened in Mao's time - we are studying this and we are in the
process of developing a new system of thought.
The
question of being head of state is not a major question. The major question is
the development of ideology which would globally uplift and give rights to the
working class - our focus is on developing that ideology. That's why people
might have a difficult time understanding us. Those who see us with 20th Century
eyes would not understand us because we are talking about democracy. In the 20th
Century, totalitarianism was widely propagated. People might find it surprising.
The main difference in us is when we talk about Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and
their ideology; we believe that it has to be developed. Just practicing it is
not enough. To protect it, practice it and develop it is necessary. The
responsibility of developing it falls on every scientific thinking person. After
the 10 years of our struggle for people, we believe this responsibility falls on
us, and we are thinking about it.
Question: You've been living an
underground existence for 25 years. What's it been like for you and for your
family?
Answer: Underground - one needs to understand it
clearly. I have not been underground from the people. I am only underground from
the feudalistic elements and its royal army. In villages where people are free,
I stay freely too. I meet my family, my children and my wife.
Question: Where do you think
Answer: I think it will be a republican state. I
believe that it will be a republic state in less than five years. I believe that
in a short while,
Question: Where will the king
be?
Answer: He will be crushed. The king I think will
either be executed by the people's court or he might be exiled. For the king,
today's
Question: To build a new future for this
country you will have to compromise on some areas. What might those areas
be?
Answer: If you are talking about compromise,
compromise with whom? If you are talking about compromise with the king, we
don't see that happening. The only point of compromise, as we have clearly said,
is that all political powers in
The
king doesn't have that space now. The steps the king has taken, like the drama
of the so-called municipal elections - the whole world saw it as the eighth
wonder of the world. And now the path the king has taken, there is no space for
compromise with him. There was a possibility for compromise before 1 February
last year. But after the steps he has taken between 1 February and now, we don't
see any space for compromise, and the Nepali people do not see space for
compromise either. We can have an understanding with the political parties and
the international community for the development of Nepali people, for peace, for
progress - that we are ready for.
Question: A few minutes ago you said
theoretically it would be possible to keep the monarchy. Now you are saying a
likely future for the king is exile or he might even be killed and there is no
compromise. If you talk in those absolute terms how are you going to reach any
agreement with the powers that be in this country?
Answer: What I'm trying to say is that the king has taken steps that do not
give any room for compromise. It would be correct to say that the path that he
has taken is the road to hell. If he has chosen the path of no compromise, there
is no way that we are going to see a compromise. Theoretically as I said there
was a possibility. But that has now turned into hypothesis. What I mean is: the
agenda that the king is moving with, he is negating the possibility of
compromise. In the second stage, I was saying that the king himself has finished
this possibility and has taken the path to hell. He is not trying to give the
rights to people or even the parliamentary parties. And in such a situation
there is no question of seeing a point of compromise with him. This is what I
was trying to say.
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HISTORIC
A historic mass
meeting was held at Ramlila Maidan in
The meeting was
chaired by Laxman Pant, President of NPRPC and conducted by D. P. Sapkota,
general secretary of NPRPC. Speakers from various organizations and parties of
Nepal and India: Mr. Tara Singh, Mr. Ishwor Chandra Gyanwali, popular
revolutionary leader in India, Mr. Lekhnath Neupane, president of All Nepal
National Independent Student Union (Revolutionary), popular student union among
Nepalese student, Mr Shivaraj Gautam, president of All Nepal Peasant Association
(Revolutionary), Mrs. Jayapuri Gharti, president of All Nepal Woman Association
(Revolutionary), left intellectual Hari Roka, Congress leaders Balkrishna Pandey
and journalist Shailesh Acharya spoke at there. All speakers emphasized on the democratic
replubic and justify the people's movement in
Renewed revolutionary poet from Andhra
Pradesh, Gadar, sang progressive songs at that moment. In between the programme,
revolutionary peoples artist team 'Samana Sanskritik Parivar' also performed
Nepali songs.
On
behalf of the seven parliamentary party alliance in
"We
want an end to autocratic monarchy and a new
February 12th mass meeting is a first of its kind as revolutionary and democratic parties, individuals despite their differences in political lines came together to support people's movement in Nepal thus showing the true international sprit.
INTENSIFICATION OF
ATTACK AROUND BUTWAL
Valiant military strike has taken place
against Gyanendra's butcher company RNA at Gothadi, densely jungle area
bordering Palpa, Rupandehi and Nawalparasi districts (around Butwal), on
February 13th overnight, killing at least 4 RNA soldiers and injuring
more than two dozens, the PLA western command said.
It
was the third major attack reported in the area in two weeks. There were no
causalities in the PLA side, only two fighters were injured. The
PLA has intensified the attack in this region after the first successful
launched against RNA at Rambhapur, in Nawalparasi district for the last nine
days. Meanwhile,
fierce clashes between the two sides have also been reported at Benimnipur area
in Nawalparasi district. Western Command of the PLA said the fourth division
commands have been engaged in fighting against the RNA in the border areas of
Palpa and Nawalparasi. Point to be noted here that, the PLA has encircled to the
Butwal, main trade center and strategic south-west base of old state, for last
two weeks. They have no morale but psychologically they are humiliated and
harass after those clashes.
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