Indian Maoist ambush on policemen in the forests of Dantewada in which at least 12 security personnel were killed shows how Naxalites, despite the heavy security dragnet in the area, are able to quickly cobble together attack squads of more than 100 combatants.

The security team was on its way to secure an area at Tarmekla village in Jagargunda, where the Naxals had blocked construction of a road. “The team comprising Chhattisgarh Armed Force, SPOs and cops was divided into two groups. The Maoists hiding in the area ambushed the rear party and opened fire on them,” DGP Vishwaranjan said. There was heavy exchange of fire during which the police party got fragmented and scattered in the forests. When the cops regrouped, 15 of their men were missing and were presumed dead. Later in the day, three policemen returned to the camp.

“Though 25 securitymen returned to the Jagargunda police station by evening, 12 of them, including Jagargunda SHO Hemant Kumar, were killed in the attack,” the DGP said. Three policemen were wounded in the gunbattle. The guerrillas also looted sophisticated weapons like AK-47s, SLRs and .303 rifles, police sources said.
In another incident, Naxalites set a Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board’s truck on fire in Nukanpal village under the Avapalli police station in Bijapur district.

Naxalites have targeted security personnel venturing into the forests, essentially to prevent them from setting up strongholds inside their areas. But the Red guerrillas also regularly hit development works to prevent interior villages from getting connectivity to the outside world. (more…)

Present journalists,

First of all, we heartily welcome the entire journalists and other masses present in this press conference organized to make public the important decisions adopted by the recently concluded Fifth Expanded Meeting of the central committee of our glorious party the CPN (Maoist) that has been playing a leading role in the campaign of building a new democratic republic of Nepal. We are immensely feeling glory and pleasure to have had this opportunity of publicizing here the summary of the historic fifth expanded meting decisions synthesized as ‘great unity and great victory’.

1. The latest fifth expanded meeting of the central committee organized in the chain of expanded meetings that had had immense importance in the history of the CPN (Maoist) had been accomplished grandiosely from August 3 to August 8, 2007 in Balaju Industrial Area, Kathmandu.

a) The meeting was inaugurated amid applause by Chairman Comrade Prachanda by lighting a lamp at 4 PM on the third of August 2007 in the Martyrs Memorial Building. In the inaugural session that had begun by paying heartfelt homage to the great martyrs of the great people’s war and the mass movement, various senior comrades and advisors of the party, shedding light on the importance of the expanded meeting, had presented meaningful statements.

b) Altogether there were 2,174 comrades comprised of the central committee members of the party to the secretariat members of the district committee, to the general branch secretary of the PLA, central office bearers of mass and frontal organizations and invited members. Of them, there were 1,672 comrades from 75 districts, 455 from 7 divisions of the PLA, 40 from India, 5 from Europe and 2 from Hong Kong. It was the biggest gathering so far in our party history. (more…)

Hala Dimechkie Makdisi

Zionism was established at the end of the 19th century to solve the so-called “Jewish Problem” resulting from centuries of persecution of the Jews in Europe. Palestine was chosen because it was considered the “historical homeland” of the Jews even though the Jews spent less than 100 years in historic Palestine some 3,000 years ago.

INTENT

As early as 1885, the founder of the World Zionist Organization, Theodore Herzl expressed his intentions for the Arabs of Palestine. They were to be denied employment and pushed across the frontiers – but this was to be done discretely. There was no room for both Arabs and Jews. This was because the Zionists wanted the land for themselves. They wanted a Jewish homeland capable of absorbing the “millions” of Jews and so that the Jewish question would be solved once and for all. The Zionists succeeded in having the Balfour Declaration signed in 1917, which approved the establishment in Palestine for a national home for the Jewish people.

When the King-Crane Commission was set up on August 28, 1919 by President Wilson of the USA “to determine which power should receive the Mandate for Palestine”[2], a number of recommendations were made based on observations, research and scholarship. Based on its observations, the Commission noted that “the Zionists looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine” and that “no British officer, consulted by the Commissioners, believed that the Zionist program could be carried out except by force of arms.”[3] (more…)

मुलुकको सङ्क्रमणकालीन अवस्थाको अन्त्य र जनआन्दोलनका उपलब्धि संस्थागत गर्न संविधानसभाको निर्वाचन मङ्सिरमा सम्पन्न गर्नु जरुरी छ, त्यस अनुरूप निर्वाचन आयोगले तयारी पनि गरिरहेको छ तर तपाईंहरूले चुनाव नजिकिइरहेको बेला सडक सङ्र्घष्ाको घोषणा गर्नुभयो, के माओवादीले मङ्सिरमा चुनाव नचाहेको हो -
ँ त्यो हुँदै होइन, हामी संविधानसभाको निर्वाचन जसरी पनि सफलतापर्ूवक सम्पन्न होस् भन्ने चाहन्छौं । यहाँ संविधानसभाको निर्वाचन नहोस्, त्यसले सफलता नपाओस् भन्ने तìवहरू छन् । संविधानसभाका बाधकका रूपमा रहेका ती तìवलाई यथावतै राखेर निर्वाचन हुन्छ जस्तो हामीलाई लाग्दैन । निर्वाचन जसरी पनि सम्पन्न गर्नुपर्छ र त्यसका लागि अवरोधक तìवहरूलाई पन्छाउनर्ुपर्छ भन्ने हाम्रो भनाइ हो ।

संविधानसभाका अवरोधक तत्त्वहरू के के देख्नुभएको छ -
ँ पहिलो, संविधानसभाको पहिलो अवरोधक राजतन्त्र नै हो । त्यसकारण संविधानसभा निर्वाचनको वातावरण बनाउन राजतन्त्रको अन्त्य र गणतन्त्रको घोषणा गरिनर्ुपर्छ । दोस्रो कुरा, वर्तमान सरकारको नेतृत्व एकाधिकारवादी ढङ्गको छ, त्यहाँ सच्याई सबैको सहमतिका आधारमा सरकार सञ्चालन गरिनर्ुपर्छ । एकलौटी रूपमा सरकार सञ्चालन गरिनु हुँदैन । तेस्रो कुरा, जनताका समस्या, उनीहरूका आवाजलाई सम्बोधन गरिनर्ुपर्छ-तर्राईमा थुप्रै समस्या छन्, जनजातिका समस्या छन्, विभिन्न जनवर्गीय सङ्गठनका समस्या छन्, यी यावत् समस्यालाई सम्बोधन गरिनर्ुपर्छ । चौथो, निर्भय र निष्पक्षरूपमा चुनाव सम्पन्न गर्न शान्तिसुरक्षाको वातावरण सुनिश्चित गरिनर्ुपर्छ ।

राजाका सवालमा संविधानसभाको पहिलो बैठकबाट निर्ण्र्ाालिने सहमतिका साथ अन्तरिम संविधानमा व्यवस्था भइसकेपछि फेरि किन व्यवस्थापिका संसद्बाट गणतन्त्र घोषणा गरिनर्ुपर्छ भन्दै हुनुहुन्छ -
ँ संविधानसभाको निर्वाचन जेठमा गर्ने सहमतिअनुसार राजाका बारेमा संविधानसभाको पहिलो बैठकबाट निर्ण्र्ाागर्ने भनिएको हो, जेठमा निर्वाचन सम्पन्न भएको भए यो कुरा उठ्ने थिएन । जेठमा चुनाव गर्नसकिने स्थिति थियो तर माओवादीका पक्षमा जन उभार देखेर त्यो अवधि टारियो । र्टार्नका लागि राजतन्त्र र वैदेशिक शक्तिबाट पनि थुप्रै चलखेल भएको हामीलाई लाग्छ । त्यसकारण तोकिएको समयमा चुनाव नभएपछि परिस्थिति बदलियो । राजतन्त्रबाट चलखेलका प्रक्रिया धेरै अगाडि बढेर गए, त्यसैले यो स्थितिमा गणतन्त्र घोषणा हुनर्ुपर्छ हामीले भनेका हौं । (more…)

Kathmandu, Aug. 24: The CPN-Maoist, in an effort to solicit suggestions and muster support of civil society and the people for its 22-point demands that were announced a few days ago as the pre-conditions for the constituent assembly election, organised a massive interaction programme in the capital on Friday in which the Maoist leadership vowed to launch a decisive struggle to abolish monarchy and establish a democratic republic.

“We are in the historic process of holding the constituent assembly election, which is a great opportunity for the Nepalese people to shape the fate and future of the country but there are equally strong challenges and hurdles before us in accomplishing the goal of creating a new Nepal,” said Maoist chairman Prachanda.

He said that the feudal elements under the patronage of monarchy are the biggest hurdle in holding free and fair constituent assembly election and abolition of monarchy and declaration of a republic was a must prior to the CA election. The Maoist supremo, however, believed that such hurdles could be easily overcome only through the united efforts of the political forces and the people.

The Maoists had earlier unveiled 22-point demands as the condition for ensuring the smooth conduct of the constituent assembly election and had announced that they would launch a movement if their demands were not met. The demands included, among others, abolition of monarchy, declaration of a republican set up, fully proportional representation election system and action against those who have been indicted by the Rayamajhi Commission.

In the interaction, leaders and members of civil society and professional groups had raised several issues relating to the CA election and current political situation. According to them, constituent assembly election must be held under any circumstance and the ongoing political and peace process must not be aborted.

There was unanimity that monarchy was the main hurdle but the speakers were divided on the modus operandi of the Maoist agitation. (more…)

माओवादीले घोषणा गरेको संघर्षको कार्यक्रम संविधानसभा बिथोल्न ल्याइएको भन्ने आरोप छ नि -
बच्चा जन्माउने बाबुआमाभन्दा अरूले बढी माया गर्छु भनेर कसैले पत्याउला । संविधानसभाको माग राखेर दस वर्षम्म जनयुद्वमा होमिएर हजारौं सहिदले बलिदान गरेका छन् । संविधानसभाको हाम्रो माग पूरा नगरिदिँदा हामीले दुइ-दुइपटक वार्ताबाट र्फकनुपर्यो । १० हजारभन्दा बढी मारिए ।
राजतन्त्रकै कारण २००७ सालदेखि संविधानसभा हुन नसकेको इतिहास र शान्ति सम्झौतायताको नौ/दस महिनाको अवधिले पनि राजालाई यथावत् राखेर संविधानसभा हुन सक्दैन भन्ने निष्कर्षहामीले निकालेका छौं ।

बृहत् शान्ति सम्झौतादेखि संविधान निर्माणसम्म राजाको विषयमा भएको सहमति बिर्सेगणतन्त्र र समानुपातिक प्रणालीको माग निर्वाचन भाँड्ने अत्तो भएन र ?
- पहिलो कुरा सम्झौता वा समझदारी भनेको आधा सहमति र आधा विमतिको दस्तावेज हो । अन्तरिम संविधान गणतान्त्रिक बन्नुपर्छ भन्ने प्रस्ताव हाम्रो त्यतिबेलै पनि थियो । जेठमा संविधानसभा हुने भए ठीकै छ भनेर हामी सहमतिमा पुगेका हौं । तर तिनै राजावादीले जेठमा संविधानसभा हुन नदिएकाले हामीले गणतन्त्र घोषणाका लागि शान्तिपूर्ण संघर्षको कार्यक्रम ल्याउनुपरेको हो । (more…)

नारायणप्रसाद शर्मा
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टर्ीीमाओवादी)ले भदौ ३ गते २२ सूत्रीय कार्यक्रम जनसमक्ष ल्याएपछि राजनीतिक वृत्तमा ठूलो तरङ्ग पैदा भएको छ । त्यसले अझ एक प्रकारको हलचल पैदा गरेको छ । नेपाली काङ्ग्रेसले आफ्नो प्रेस वक्तव्यमार्फ यसको भर्त्सना गर्दै माओवादीले संविधानसभाको चुनाव नचाहेको आरोप लगाएको छ । नेपाली काङ्ग्रेस प्रजातान्त्रिकले पनि झण्डै यस्तै प्रतिक्रिया जनाएको छ । एमालेको भाषा अलिकति नरम भए पनि आशय त्यस्तै छ ।

व्यवस्थापिका संसद्मा पनि निन्दा र प्रशंसा दुबै सुन्न पाइन्छ । पत्र पत्रिका र रेडियो एवं टि.भी.मा यही २२ बुँदाकै चर्चा परिचर्चा छ । नेकपा माओवादीको सधैँ आलोचक रही आएका पार्टर्ीीले माओवादी चुनावबाट भाग्न खोज्दैछन् भन्दैछन् भने माओवादीहरूले चुनावी वातावरणका लागि यस प्रकारको आन्दोलन अनिवार्य भन्दैछ । अध्यक्ष प्रचण्डकै शब्दमा’अहिलेको स्थितिमा राजतन्त्र कायमै राखेर संविधानसभा हुन्छ भन्नु जस्तो महाझुठ, पाखण्ड र बेइमानी अर्को हुनै सक्दैन ।

प्रश्न गम्भीर छ- माओवादीकै कारण संविधानसभाको चुनाव हुँदैन त - अथवा माओवादीले भने जस्तै अहिलेकै स्थितिमा चुनाव हुनसक्दैन या हुनु पाखण्ड नै हुन्छ त - माओवादीले २२ बुँदे माग राखेर आन्दोलनको कार्यक्रमको घोषणा गरेका छन् । व्यवस्थापिका संसद्मा २२ बुँदाको खासै चर्चा चलेन तर माओवादीको जनकारबाही भन्ने शब्दले भने धेरैलाई तर्सर्ााो छ । माओवादीहरूले जनकारवाही भनेको रायमाझी आयोगले दोषी ठहर गरेका व्यक्तिहरू अर्थात् राजावादी शक्तिहरूमाथि कारबाही हो र त्यो युद्धकालीन शैलीको होइन भनेका छन् । यसो भए पनि माओबादीका कट्टर आलोचकहरू यसबाट तर्सर्ेेे पक्कै हो ।

आखिर के छ त माओवादीको २२ बुँदामा - २२ बुँदा आउनुअघि १८ बुँदा आइसकेका हुन् । त्यतिबेला मन्त्रिपरिषद्मा नेपाली काङ्ग्रेसका ११ बुँदा, एमालेको १० बुँदा र माओवादीका १८ बुँदासहित ४३ बुँदा छन् । सबै बुँदालाई सँगै राखेर तत्काल मिलनबिन्दुको खोजी गर्ने प्रयास गरेका भए सायद यति ठूलो हलचल पैदा हुने थिएन कि - पछि थपिएका ४ बुँदा पनि एकदमै सुनिँदै नसुनिएका बुँदा त हैनन् तथापि आन्दोलनमा उत्रने र जनव्रि्रोहको कुराले प्रतिपक्षमा खलबली मच्चिएकै छ । (more…)

The government in Nepal has decided to take over the palaces and properties of the King, who has already been deprived of most of his powers by the Parliament, including the coveted title of the Supreme Commander of the Nepal Army.

A high-level ministerial committee today decided to register seven palaces including the Narayanhiti Royal Palace, Lamjung Durbar, Gorkha Durbar,Hanumandhoka Durbar, Nuwakot Durbar, Lalitpur Durbar, and Bhaktapur that are being used by the King and his family members in the name of the government of Nepal.

According to minister Hisila Yami, the committee decided to register the palaces and 1500 ropanis of land belonging to the King in the name of the government.

The committee also decided to seal all bank accounts of the King, Queen and Crown Prince to stop all transactions of money transferred from the late King Birendra and late Queen Aishwarya, The Himalayan Times Online reported today.

The government has also directed the authorities to remove all photographs and slogans valourising the monarch from the military headquarters and other buildings of the army.

The Nepal Army has started removing pictures of King Gyanendra and Queen Komal and slogans praising the monarch following a directive of the government, a Nepal Army spokesperson said.

In the wake of protests from civil society and other groups, the interim government led by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Sunday ordered the Ministry of Defence to direct the Nepal Army headquarters to remove all photographs and slogans valourising the King, the official said.

Slogans in praise of the King and queen in the headquarters premises have already been covered as it takes sometime to wash out the paintings and repaint them, an army official said.

• Fidel engaging in increasingly intense and valuable activities • Willing to hold talks, on an equal footing, with the United States • Cuba will accept foreign investment: capital, technology and markets
• Strengthening our defensive capacity • A special effort must be made in food production to save on imports • Our people will never give in to pressure or blackmail from any country or group of countries
(Translated by ESTI)

Friends accompanying us here today;
People of Camagüey, good morning;

Compatriots:
Exactly one year ago, as we were listening to the speeches given by the Commander in Chief in Bayamo and Holguín, we could hardly even suspect what a hard blow was awaiting us.

Next July 31 will be the first anniversary of Fidel’s Proclamation, and to the delight of our people he is already taking on more and more intense and highly valuable activities, as evidenced by his reflections which are published in the press, even though, not even during the most serious moments of his illness, did he fail to bring his wisdom and experience to each problem and essential decision.

THOSE WHO ARE AMAZED AT OUR PEOPLE’S CAPACITY TO RISE TO THE LEVEL OF EVERY CHALLENGE, NO MATTER HOW GREAT, DO NOT KNOW THEM VERY WELL

These have truly been very difficult months, although with a diametrically different impact to that expected by our enemies, who were wishing for chaos to entrench and for Cuban socialism to collapse. Senior U.S. officials even made statements about taking advantage of this scenario to destroy the Revolution.

Those who are amazed at our people’s capacity to rise to the level of every challenge, no matter how great, do not know them very well, since this is really the only behavior consistent with our history.

The battle waged by many generations of Cubans is well-known, from La Demajagua and Moncada, right up to the present, always facing enormous obstacles and powerful enemies. So much sacrifice and difficulties! How many times did we have to recommence the struggle after each setback! (more…)

Presses parties to come up with a firm stance on the formation of a republic

Kathmandu, August 12:

Maoist central leaders and central adivsors present in the press conference

CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda said today that they could walk out of the government and launch a peaceful agitation if the parties leading the government were not ready to declare the country a republic to foil the regressive forces’ conspiracies against the November 22 constituent assembly election.
“There is no alternative to launch a people´s revolt after quitting the government if the parties leading the government do not guarantee the declaration of a republic to foil conspiracies and terror of the regressive forces against assembly election,” Prachanda said in a statement issued to make public the decision of the recently concluded fifth expanded meeting of the party.
The theoretical, political and moral grounds to remain in the interim government are being diminished as the major political parties were trying to run the government in an old-fashioned manner, Prachanda said in the statement.
It has also set preconditions that the parties in the government must be ready to run the government according to the spirit of consensus, take action against the criminals involved in serial killings in Madhes, make public the cases of disappearances and provide compensation impartially to the families of martyrs, implement revolutionary land reforms for the party to remain in the government. The party has also sought a guarantee that murders, conspiracies and terror against the party must be stopped and the People’s Liberation Army must get respectful treatment.
Prachanda also accused the major parliamentary parties of breaking the spirit of 12-point understanding, comprehensive peace accord and interim government, which were the basis of unity with the CPN-Maoist.
“The soon-to-be-held eight-party meeting will decide whether the country will move towards the constituent assembly or towards agitation,” Prachanda said, replying to a query about the possibility of holding the constituent assembly election. He also warned that there would be a “big accident” in the country if the eight parties did not come up with a clear stance on the republic.
“We are still doubtful about the possibility of holding the constituent assembly election, as conspiracies are being hatched to isolate the revolutionary and republican forces,” he said, replying to yet another query.
He also made it clear that they were not making the issue of proportional representation system of election as a precondition for the assembly election. “We have simply made clear our position,” he said, adding that they had made the last-ditch efforts for the proportional representation system and federal system of governance “inside the room of Baluwatar.”
The statement distributed to the media has categorised the country’s political forces into groups, which include the royalists, status quoists, bourgeois parliamentary forces and revolutionary democratic forces. Country’s political conflict revolves around those forces, it said.
Party’s central committee meeting held following the conclusion of the fifth expanded meeting has formed three teams to hold roundtable conferences among the political forces, agitating groups and civil society, take initiative for reaching a unity among the leftist forces and prepare election manifesto for the upcoming assembly election and peaceful agitation. A three-member team headed by Ram Bahadur Thapa (Badal) has been formed to hold a roundtable conference and another team led by Mohan Baidya (Kiran) to hold talks with leftist forces. An eight-member committee lead by Dr Baburam Bhattarai has been formed to draft the election manifesto.
The party also made public details of property belonging to each of the 35 central committee members. A copy of property details was made available to the media during the press conference.

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A World to Win News Service

“That fateful summer, 8:15. The roar of a B-229 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, en enormous blast – silence– hell on earth.

“The eyes of young girls watching the parachute melted. Their faces became giant charred blisters. The skin of people seeking help dangled from their fingernails. Their hair stood on end. Their clothes were ripped to shreds. People trapped in houses toppled by the blast were burned alive. Others died when their eyes and internal organs burst from their bodies. Hiroshima was a hell where those who somehow survived envied the dead.” (From the 6 August 2007 memorial statement by Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, in a plea to rid the world of all nuclear weapons)

On 6 August 1945 the US unleashed the atomic bomb on humanity. The world’s first use of nuclear weapons, against the Japanese city of Hiroshima, was followed on 9 August by the bombing of Nagasaki.

As the US threatens war – including the use of nuclear weapons – against Iran, supposedly because the Islamic regime seeks nuclear weapons capability, it is more important than ever to emphasize what country has been the first and only to ever actually use such weapons.

The two atomic bombs dropped at the end of World War 2 were deliberately set to explode high in the air. The point was to maximize the killing, not the destruction of buildings. More than 110,000 people died immediately in the two bombings and the radiation eventually killed hundreds of thousands more. Many years of painful death by cancer and later birth defects lay ahead for the survivors and their descendents.

If terrorism is defined as the killing of innocent civilians for a political purpose, then the world has seldom seen such terrorism. Think of 40 times 11 September 2001 in New York and you will only imagine the first few seconds.

Shortly after, Japan surrendered. But its economy and capital city had been destroyed before the atomic bombs reduced two non-military and relatively unimportant cities to towns of the dead. Many historians believe that country was on the verge of surrender before those terrible days in August 1945. The main reason the US wanted to use atomic weapons was as a demonstration of strength to threaten the USSR. The Soviet Union was then a socialist country. It had been allied with the US against Germany and Japan during the war, but even before that war was over, the US was baring its teeth to the USSR and setting out to dominate the world.

Before World War 2, bombing civilians was considered a barbaric and illegal act. The US was not the only nation to commit that crime in WW2, but along with the British it did so on an enormous scale. Since then the US has threatened to use nuclear weapons on dozens of occasions, not only against the USSR when that country later became an imperialist rival to the US, but also Vietnam and China. That the US would make first use of nuclear weapons whenever it felt its interests sufficiently threatened has been official US doctrine and the cornerstone of American military policy from the 1950s through today.

Currently, despite the fact that the US’s rival in Cold War nuclear terrorism, the USSR, has collapsed, the Bush government has launched a plan to redesign and rebuild every weapon in its nuclear arsenal, which still contains, like Russia’s, roughly 5,800 active atomic warheads. This includes both giant city-crushing long-range-missile- born bombs and smaller “tactical” nuclear weapons to vaporize smaller targets. The Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab in California, which is carrying out this project, was the target of a planned series of demonstrations to commemorate the bombings of the two Japanese cities and oppose an American attack on Iran. The use of “tactical” nuclear weapons against Iran is a popular topic of discussion in Washington.

It is also criminally ironic that just the week before the Hiroshima anniversary, the US and Indian governments reached agreement on American technical assistance to India’s nuclear programme at the same time the US is threatening Iran for undertaking its own programme. Unlike Iran, India has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation pact, and unlike Iran, India has developed and tested nuclear bombs. Obviously, for the US the question is not preventing nuclear proliferation but supporting or toppling regimes according to its perceived interests.

As the UN International Atomic Energy Agency has said, there is no evidence that Iran’s nuclear programme includes weapons at this time. It is true that nukes are nukes and much of the same technology and skills used for nuclear power plants can be used to make nuclear bombs. It also may be that the Iranian Islamic regime seeks nuclear weapons. It would be wrong to deny these facts and prettify an anti-people regime.

But the world has only known one nuclear war criminal, and that criminal must be stopped from doing it again

by Johan Petter Andresen

The Health Team for Nepal was formed in 2006. The aim of the Health Team project is to help poor people in rural areas of Nepal. The Health Team for Nepal cooperates with the medical department of the People’s Liberation Army in order to attain this goal. The health team for Nepal consists of two parts: medical specialists and a support group.

The specialists have a program to train approximately 20 medics based on a course developed by progressive Norwegian surgical specialists. The curriculum is based on two books: Save Lives Save Limbs and War Surgery. As part of this project we have sent 50 copies of each in English and the books are also being translated into Nepali. The training course takes 18 to 24 months to complete and contains three intense training sessions. The surgeon Hans Husum and specialist nurse Merete Taksdal have completed the first course together with PLA medics and medical staff at Gorneti Model Hospital in Rolpa in November 2006.

The second course is scheduled for October 2007. The support group collects money needed for the project and spreads information about the democratic revolution in Nepal. So far we have collected approximately 2,200,000 (NRS). Of this we have used 150,0000 (NRS). In order to complete the project we will be collecting another 800, 000 (NRS) (about US$11,000) within the next nine months. The health team support group has held audiovisual lectures at about 14 schools and approximately 15 mass meetings in various cities in Norway. (more…)

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दाईं हाल्ने परालको घानमा नारिएका गोरूको माझमा गएर दाम्लो घाँटिमा छिराएपछि गोरू जसरी घुम्ने गर्छन् त्यसरी नै घुम्नर्ुपर्छ । घुम्न चाहेन भने दाम्लोले लतार्छ । नेपालको सत्तामाथि दाईंहाल्ने क्रममा नागरिएका सातओटा गोरूको माझमा आठौं गोरू बनेर नारिन माओवादी पनि गयो । पाँचओटा मन्त्रालयको जिम्मेवारी पायो । सरकारमा गइसकेपछि अरू जसरी हिँडेका छन् त्यसरी हिँड्नर्ैपर्छ भन्ने आम मान्यता रहन्छ । सरकार भएपछि सरकारकै रूपमा देखिनु पर्छ । यो सरकार हुनुको वाध्यता हो । राजावादीहरू, राप्रपाहरू बाहेकको अहिलेको यो सत्तामा सबै समाविष्ट छन् । कोही प्रतिपक्ष छैन । सबै सत्ता पक्ष । त्यसैले यो बहुमतको सरकारको हो । अहिलेको सत्तालाई यसरी नै बुझ्ने गरिएको छ । माओवादीलाई सबैले सत्तापक्ष अथवा सत्तारूढ दल भनेर बुझ्छन् । र, माओवादी र नेपाली कांग्रेस, एमाले एउटै लिकमा हिँडेको भन्ठान्छन् । सारमा जे होला रूपमा यही नै वास्तविकता हो ।
कुरा दोलखा र पाँचथरतिर मोडौं । दोलखामा प्रमुख जिल्ला अधिकारी माओवादी वाइसीएलको आक्रमणमा परे । प्रजिअमाथि आक्रमण हुनुको कारण भने निश्चय नै छ । माओवादी निकटका व्यक्तिले एकजना राजावादी कार्यकर्तालाई कालोमोसो दले । कालोमोसो दल्नाको पनि कारणहरू छन् । उसले त्यहाँ राजतन्त्रका पक्षमा राजनीति गर्दै आठ दल र जनआन्दोलन-२ को खिल्ली उडाइरहेको थियो । राजावादी चम्चेहरूले पुरानो राजतन्त्रात्मक संसदीय संविधानको आडमा कालो दल्नेमाथि र्सार्वजनिक अपराधअन्तरगत जिल्ला प्रशासन कार्यालयमा उजुरी दिए । उजुरवालाको उजुरी तुरून्तै सुनेर माओवादीका कार्यकर्तालाई पक्रियो । उनीहरूलाई छाडियोस् भन्ने माओवादीको आग्रह रह्यो । प्रशासनले मुद्दा चलाउने क्रम अघि बढायो । त्यहाँ राजावादी गन्ध देखियो । त्यसले भनाभनको रूप लियो । बढ्दैजाँदा उग्र भयो । तोडफोड भयो । प्रशासनले थप अरूलाई गिरफ्तार गर्‍यो । त्यसक्रममा प्रजिअ पनि धक्कामुक्कीमा परे । एकजनालाई छाड्न आग्रह गर्न जाँदा अरू दर्जनौंलाई गिरफ्तार गरेपछि त्यसको विरोधमा दोलखा बन्दको कार्यक्रम अगाडि सार्नुपर्‍यो । यही नै दोलखाको वास्तविकता हो । (more…)

Senoir leaders Com. Kiran, Baburam Bhattarai, Chairman Prachanda, Com. Badal, Com Gaurav

The CPN-Maoist began its fifth expanded meeting in Kathmandu on Friday on the participation of more than 21 hundred leaders and senior cadres accorss the country. This meeting is highly watched not only in national level but also internationally because of its importance.

In the meeting central leaders, representatives from 14 regions, 4 commands, international command, from PLA, members of interim parliament, representative from mass organisations are gathered in Kathmandu. The security of meeting is provided by the People´s Liberation Army and the Young Communist League.

A member of the Maoist People’s Liberation Army stands guard outside the venue

The meeting will discuss the political paper presented by the Chariman Com Parchanda from today. All the participants are divided in 40 groups for the discussion on Chairman´s paper. The meeing is supposed to be conclued on August 8.