CPN(M) - Worker #10
The Worker, #10, May 2006
Ten Years Special
MARTYRS AND MARTYR'S FAMILIESCOM. KIM BAHADUR THAPA (SUNIL) AND SON
Comrade Kim Bahadur Thapa, fondly known as Com. Sunil, the ex-member of Central Committee of CPN(Maoist), division commander of the PLA and a popular leader of Rolpa, met with heroic death while directing his divisional force to safety when blind firing from helicopters of the so-called royal army hit him killing him on the spot on November 29, 2005. In addition to Com. Kim Bahadur Thapa, Com. Nirinam, another promising youth from Salyan and a battalion vice-commander of the PLA, has also been martyred. The royal killers, who were forced to flee away from Burassay, Salyan facing PLA's resistance in the afternoon, had carried out that severe crime in the evening at Rolpa. The feudal autocratic elements are stepping up provocative activities of killing, disappearing and terrorizing the unarmed cadres to disrupt the three-month ceasefire the CPN (Maoist) had declared in favour of democracy and peace. It is worth remembering that they wanted to disrupt dialogue by designing Dorambha Massacre during the last negotiation. The murder of Com. Kim Bahadur Thapa and Com. Nirmam while the cease-fire was operational is the latest link of this terror. These incidents have further clarified the fact that the feudal palace and its backers are not in favour of democratic way out and peace but are in favour of disruption to defend their autocracy by slaughtering the Nepalese people.
Com. Kim Bahadur, originally a teacher, had excellent organizational and military skill making him a perfect politico-military person. He was born in Gajul village in Rolpa in 1961. He had five sons and two daughters. His son Dilip (Com. Vigyan) had been martyred earlier. His wife Bagmati Thapa and his daughter Divyajyoti were brutally raped by state police while he was underground. Today both are working full time in Party activities. Divyajyoti's husband Dev Mahara (Com. Pravin) had been martyred earlier. His other son Dorna and the daughter-in-law Samana are professional revolutionary workers in the Party. We pay our respect to Com. Kim Babadur and his revolutionary family.
COM. RAMBRIKCHHA YADAV AND SON
Com. Rambrikchha Yadav's name is synonymous with the peasant's movement in the Terai region of his period. A popular Terai mass-leader with international proletariat outlook is also known for his famous song composed and sung by him "Perumey lal jhanda fehara" when class war in Peru was at its peak period during 1980s. He was so popular that even after the initiation of the People's War when hundreds have been martyred from the Terai region, his name still reverberates throughout the country, especially amongst Terai people. When he was alive, he was like a bare-footed judge, giving justice to all those who sought his help. It is no wonder, the teacher turned revolutionary gradually transformed into poor peasant status from his earlier middle class status because he selflessly served the wretched of the earth.
Com. Rambrikchha Yadav was bom in Birmajhiya village in Dhanusha district, one of the centres of rich feudal districts in Nepal in the year 1946. He was a rebel right from the beginning. He formed a Kirtan Mandali (a religious singing club), through it he started mobilizing the mass against the excesses of feudal practices. Because of his successful campaign against feudal oppression he soon started being haunted by both the police force as well by the local goons of feudal lords. As a result he was often arrested and was often transferred from one school to the other. But that did not deter him. Wherever he went he mobilized the local mass against the feudal tyranny. Soon he came into contact with the communist party through Comrade Rishi Azad, (who was later martyred). He transformed Kirtan Mandal into communist party. Soon more cases were filed against him in the name of peace and security acts and he started getting jailed increasingly. Finally he left his job to become a professional revolutionary worker of the communist party. By 1983 he had become a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal). In the year 1985 he was badly crippled by goons of local feudal force and was handed over to the local police force. However he managed to escape from the jail custody with the help of other comrades. In 1986 he was re-arrested while actively campaigning for boycott of elections of the partyless Panchayat system. It was in the year 1994, when he was again in the field actively mobilizing the masses for the boycott of mid-terrn parliamentary election that he was killed by the combined coordinated attack of feudal and police forces. Thus he was an instrumental figure in Terai to sow the seeds of rebellion against the state before CPN (Maoist) had started Peoples War in Nepal. Today all his family members are in the movement some of them have already become martyr. Mrs. Ram Kumari Yadav, wife of Com. Yadav is today working as professional revolutionary worker of the Party even at the age of 52. She is at present the advisor to the Central Committee of the Party. She is the proud mother of one son and four daughters. Their son Shekhar Yadav alias Pawan was martyred in the year 2002 at the age of 29 years. He was captured in India and handed over to Nepalese authority. He was tortured to death in the police custody. At the time of his martyrdom he was working as district committee member in the Party. Her eldest daughter Bodhmaya and her husband are both working in the Party. Her youngest daughter Suneeta who is at present working at district committee level lost her husband Com. Damber Yadav within less than one and half year of their marriage.
Com. Rambrikchha Yadav and his revolutionary family will always inspire millions of toilers of this world to fight against all kinds of oppression. Hail Com. Rambrikchha Yadav and his revolutionary family!
"All men must die, but death can vary in its significance. The ancient Chinese writer Szuma Chien said, 'Though death befalls men alike, it may be weighter than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.' To die for the people is weighter than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather."
—Mao Tse-tung, Serve the People, Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 227