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Military actions
carried out in the course of implementing the transitional plan, shows that the
CPN (Maoist) have qualitatively strengthened their ability in the military
field. The latest actions carried out in all the three regions, and particularly
in that of Dolpa, in the Western region, manifests this.
On Sunday September
24, Maoist guerrillas completely destroyed the total reactionary state apparatus
in Dolpa district, the biggest in geographical area, for the first time since
the launching of the people’s war in Nepal. The district headquarters of Dolpa
district was seized by the guerrilla forces in a battle that lasted from 1.00
a.m. to 6.00 a.m. Eleven policemen breathed their last at the spot, and more
than three dozen were seriously injured. Three of those injured died, while
under treatment. Also Maoist guerrillas attacked a jail where 17 prisoners were
freed. Apart from this, guerrillas blasted and destroyed the District
Administration and Land Reform Office. In addition, the guerrillas captured the
office of the Nepal Bank Limited in the district, and seized all the property,
worth around sixty million rupees. As a consequence of these actions, the
whole of Dolpa district has turned into a desert for the reactionaries, and a
revolutionary red base for the Maoist revolutionaries of Nepal.
Besides this, Maoist
guerrillas successfully accomplished three more military actions within a week.
On September 27 a raid on a police post at Bhorle Tar in the Lamjung district,
of the central region, gave a large catche of arms and ammunition to the
guerrillas. The police post was reduced to ash. Eight policemen died on the spot
and three were seriously injured. In addition to this, guerrillas attacked the
nearby Agricultural Development Bank and seized all its property. The Maoists
also carried out two more military actions, one on a police post and another on
a bank. Both these were in the eastern region. Though successful, detailed
information is still awaited.
These military
actions have completely demoralised the police force in Nepal. The Inspector
General of Police, Achyut Krishna Kharel, the highest-ranking police officer in
the force, has left on two months ‘leave’. Government-controlled, Radio Nepal,
also announced that some high-ranking police officers have fled their offices
and are not available anywhere in the country. Though the army has not yet been
deployed, the training and arms supplied by the Royal Army has failed to defeat
the Maoist guerrillas. Also all the ‘reform packages’ implemented by the
government in the Maoist affected areas, have all been battered down. Now, all
these programmes prepared by the Girija government for the Maoist affected areas
have been cancelled. An emergency meeting of the Nepalese cabinet was held that
aimed to find the way out in tackling the revolutionary forces. Many politicians
complained that the initiative of the entire Nepalese politics has gone into the
hands of the Maoist revolutionaries.
The government, rife
with internal dissents, are in a state of chaos. The frequent cabinet meetings
of all the parliamentary parties, aimed at arriving at a national consensus
against the Maoist people’s war, have not yet materialised. The reactionaries,
though they realise the direct threat to their system, have not yet been able to
come to a unanimous position on the problem. On the contrary, the contradictions
amongst them are further sharpening, particularly within the ruling party
itself. It is not that they do not want to resolve this problem unanimously;
they are unable to do so, due to the development of the people’s war by leaps
and bounds, and more particularly, because of the maturity of the CPN(Maoist) in
applying MLM correctly in utilising the contradictions among the reactionaries.
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