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Two months into the
so-called emergency and the military take-over, the reactionary royal army is
hard put to show any sign of ‘success’ against the revolutionary people’s war (PW).
Rather it has been forced to retreat to the district headquarters in the face of
stiff resistance by the heroic fighters of the PLA, and has taken recourse to
indiscriminate killing of unarmed masses to prove its virility to its
imperialist and expansionist masters. Contrary to the daily dose of misleading
propaganda through the royal army controlled media (all the newspapers are
dictated to publish only the version of the royal army!), the reactionary
mercenaries have been butchering unarmed masses and noncombatant political
activists mostly in and around district headquarters and the plain (Terai) areas
to fulfil their daily quotas of human casualties. Any close analysis of the
pattern of killings by these butchers during the past two months would
substantiate that these cowards closetted in the heavily fortified barracks in
the district headquarters or urban areas do venture out in a strength of not
less than 3 to 5 hundred in numbers, only in day time, to nearby areas of 2-3
hours walking distance, herd in the masses at random, pick up a few for
annihilation and return back to the barracks before the sun sets in. This is the
pattern of their so-called ‘search and destroy operation’. The fact that most of
these massacres have taken place in the Terai districts of Banke, Bardiya,
Kailali, Dhanusa, etc. and in and around the district headquarters of Gorkha,
Daileskh, Dandeldhura, Baitadi, Lamjung and others, amply proves this. It may be
recalled that after the initial attempts at firing or bombing from helicopters
turned into a total farce, this new technique of cowardly massacre has been
resorted to by these reactionary butchers. Since the independent media and human
rights organisations are strictly barred from visiting and verifying these
massacre sites, such horrendous war crimes have not been sufficiently exposed.
It may be noteworthy that a reporter from the pro-establishment paper Kantipur
was recently arrested for reporting one of such heinous crimes by the royal army
in Parbat district. Similarly a report by the parliamentary opposition party UML
has corroborated the killing of six ruling Nepali Congress party activists by
the royal army in Rolpa district. Here it won’t be out of context to advise the
Amnesty International, which has made a hue and cry over the punishment meted
out by the revolutionary forces to some government informers directly involved
in these crimes, to monitor these war crimes by the royal army and report to the
international community. Meanwhile, the PLA and the peoples’ militias have
carried out a number of successful ambushes and other military actions in Gorkha,
Lamjung, Myagdi, Dailekh, Sindhupalchok and other areas and effectively thwarted
the attempts of the royal army to invade the revolutionary base areas. Rather a
number of daring raids by the PLA over the royal army outposts guarding the
telecommunication towers and other installations have forced the reactionary
army to retreat to the district headquarters or large urban areas.
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