Appeal of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is a responsible Party, which by standing
at the forefront, has been leading the People’s War in order to establish real
democracy, respecting the sovereignty of the people – the right to rebel
against class, national, regional and gender exploitation and oppressions of
the old feudal state. While we raised the voices for nationality, livelihood
and democracy which are related to the immediate concern of the people, through
legal and peaceful struggle, the old state had unleashed a callous campaign of
murdering the unarmed people, setting fire on the houses, looting and
extorting, raping women beating and torturing including unleashing so-called
Romio-operation. In that context, people had no options but to rebel for their
security and liberation from the oppression of the feudal state. It is evident
that no true humanitarians and democrats of the world deny the right to rebel
of the people. In a form of centralised expression of that historic right to
rebel of the people the initiation and development of the People’s War has been
advancing under the leadership of our Party.
Because of the bold leadership of the Party with clear ideological,
political and military strategy and tactic for the republic of the people, the
People’s War has developed in a rapid motion. The fact that the broad masses of
all countryside and the broad area of the country have been galvanised around
the Party within the period of eight years has not been concealed from anybody.
Now, the old feudal state has demonstrated its existence in the capital and
district headquarters converting them to the military barracks only on the
backing of the foreign power-centres, mainly on the backing of the military and
financial support of the United States of America.
Our Party has been committed to the fundamental norms of human-right and
Geneva Convention since the historic initiation of the People’s War. Anyone who
without prejudicially judges the facts of eight years can find that our
People’s Liberation Army has been providing a respectful behaviour, treatment
to the injured and release in good conditions of the prisoners of war who have
been arrested from the army and police of the enemy combatant. Our Party has a
clear policy and practice not to conduct any discrimination against any people
based on ideological, political, religious and cultural commitment, as well as
based on nationality, race and political – grouping except to those who are
directly involved in the direct crime against the masses of the people. We have
been practicing the process of rectifying the short of weaknesses with publicly
self-criticism that sometimes happen in the process of war.
Anyone who has been witnessing the civil war of eight years in the close
can easily observe the facts that the old feudal state through its military
force having taken in its detention has been disappearing thousands of unarmed
political cadres and general masses of people, setting fire on the houses and
huts of the people in the country sides, has been killing thousands of innocent
people propagating false confrontations, has been campaigning biting and
torturing against thousands of people, has been raping thousands of women in
the villages, and has been killing hundreds of women after rape.
To state before the international community to be committed to the
human-right by the old state which has been leading such middle-aged atrocity
is, in essence, a feudalistic stupidity and conspiracy to hide its crimes. We
admit that it is our responsibility to appeal to all not to fall under
confusion of this feudalistic stupidity.
It is obvious that in the period of eight years our Party has seat on
the table of negotiation for two times with the old state, respecting the
wishes and initiatives of finding peaceful solution of the civil war in the
country by the political and non political parties, organisations and
institutions within and outside of the country. In the latest negotiation
table, our Party put forward an universal democratic method of letting the
sovereign people choose their future themselves – the demand of the election of
the constitutional assembly. But the chieftains of the old feudal state that
has already lost ground and people’s confidence staged Doramba massacre in the
very time of while negotiation was going on intensifying the killing and
terror, contrary to agree on giving right to the people to determine
themselves. The events have proved that the old state neither believes on
people not wants peaceful solution of the civil war. It only want to impose military dictatorship
over the Nepalese people backed by imperialist military and financial
assistance. In that context, there have remained no other options before the
Nepalese people except to resist against the military dictatorship of the
autocratic feudal elements.
Now, again, amid the advancement of the civil war, having respected the
appeals and wishes of the different human right organisations and institutions
as well as pro-people political forces, our party has clarified our stand that
we are ready to sit for negotiation on the mediation of United Nation (UN). But,
the old feudal state that has been conspiring to confuse the international
community has been leading further moves of persisting military dictatorship by
propagating the so-called general election, contrary to agree to solve the
problems through such meditations. Hence, the chieftains of the old feudal
state are going to Geneva taking a scrap of paper of the commitment to the
human-right after the continuous pressure fell over them by different
international human right organisations and institutions. We want to draw
attention of the true human-right activists and democratic forces that the
so-called commitment is nothing but a conspiracy to veil up the middle-aged
atrocities conducted by the old state.
We appeal to the international human right organisation and institutions
including the United Nations of Organisations to take concrete initiatives to
understand the ground reality of Nepal. We express our commitment for necessary
assistance for that direction. If only formal speeches of the representatives
of the old state are regarded without directly monitoring the atrocities
happening in the villages of the countries, that will be a severe insulting
against the Nepalese people and of the human right itself. Our Party has been
expressing its commitment not only on the Geneva Convention in relation to the
war but also on the international declarations in relation to the human rights.
And at the present concrete condition, we want to clarify that if there is a
concrete proposal for us through the international human right convention, our
approach will be positive on that.
16 March 2004
Prachanda
Chairman
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
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