Long
Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Prachanda Path!
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PRESS STATEMENT |
(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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