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| Kathmandu, Friday February 28, 2003 Falgun 16, 2059. |
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Prachanda’s realisation
This refers to news stories, carried out by your
daily since the last two weeks, on a series of telephonic conversation between Maoist
rebel chairman Prachanda and other political parties including senior Panchayati
ideologues. To me, Prachanda seems to be eager to resolve the Maoist problem and he knows
that what he has been doing is not the right thing. I believe this is sort of realisation,
not confession of his crimes. However, has Prachanda realised how many innocent people
have been killed by his Maoist cadres? Did he mean that the local unarmed political
leaders, who were brutally murdered, were the culprits of what he thought?
I think we don’t need to elaborate more on
the Maoist brutalities until Prachanda is tried in the court of law. Every Nepali knows
how the Maoists unleashed terror and displaced thousands of people. So will Prachanda, who
now behaves like a stooge of a few people in power, be able to resolve the Maoist problem?
I don’t think so. Any telephonic conversation with political leaders will never
resolve the problem. Prachanda is a citizen of this country and I am sure he will soon
leave the jungle warfare and enter into politics. But how will he do so when every Nepali
knows Prachanda is the one who was unleashing atrocities for the last seven years?
Corruption and killing innocent people are legally two different aspects. The Maoists must
speak out clearly who were the people supporting them and admit that they committed crimes
in this country.
Confession in Christianity, not in Hinduism, is
forgiveness because Christianity offers room for correction. However, how the Hindu
leaders take such confession cannot be explained now. Hindus especially in South Asia have
become more fanatics like Prachanda and Dr Baburam Bhattarai.
Raj B Subba
Gyaneshwor, Kathmandu |
